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UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 5 Equip listeners to grasp the Revelation 7–9 timeline—how the church age closes, how the first half of the Tribulation unfolds through the seven trumpets and the first two “woes,” why God’s judgments fall on “one-third” of creation, and how these events aim to drive repentance while God preserves a sealed remnant of Israel. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 5 Pastor Marcos Marrero May 31, 2009 Objective: Equip listeners to grasp the Revelation 7–9 timeline—how the church age closes, how the first half of the Tribulation unfolds through the seven trumpets and the first two “woes,” why God’s judgments fall on “one-third” of creation, and how these events aim to drive repentance while God preserves a sealed remnant of Israel. Synopsis: The message opens with prayer and spiritual warfare, declaring the gathering a “no-fly zone” for the enemy. The teacher then reviews a dispensational reading of Revelation: the church age (seven churches/seals) gives way to the Rapture, after which the Holy Spirit’s church-age anointing lifts. The Laodicean-type church is portrayed as remaining to face testing. The first six seals are recapped—especially wars, deception, famine, and cosmic disturbance—framed as forces that shaped church history and culminate in a visible unveiling of Christ at the sixth seal. Matthew 24 is woven in to show parallel signs and the call for believers to “look up.” Turning to Revelation 8–9, “about half an hour” of silence in heaven is interpreted as the first 1,260 days (three and a half years) of Tribulation. Seven angels receive seven trumpets, signaling swift, concentrated judgments that mingle heaven’s fire with “the prayers of the saints” (divine recompense). The first four trumpets strike one-third of earth, sea, rivers, and heavenly lights—read as spiritual forces now driving history toward three escalating “woes.” Woe 1 (fifth trumpet): a fallen “star” (Satan) opens the abyss; demonic “locusts” torment people for five months but cannot harm those sealed by God (Israel’s remnant). This visible collision of the spiritual and physical realms is presented as severe mercy—exposing the reality of demons so that many will repent. Woe 2 (sixth trumpet): four destroying angels bound at the Euphrates are released to kill a third of humanity, accompanied by a 200-million strong, terrifying cavalry. Despite judgments, many still refuse to repent of demon-worship, violence, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft (Rev 9:20–21). The two witnesses (identified here as Enoch and Elijah) establish Temple worship and law, confront the rising Antichrist/false prophet, and are killed after 1,260 days; the world celebrates until God raises them, along with those martyred in faithful repentance. Throughout, the speaker emphasizes: God judges the Church first (escape via faithfulness to Jesus and His Word), then purifies Israel and the nations; judgments are purposeful—to reveal Christ, unmask Satan, and compel a choice. The message closes urging readiness, repentance, and reliance on the Holy Spirit to discern spiritual truth and endure faithfully. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: [Music] Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise the Lord. Father in heaven, in Jesus name, we take we take authority right now, Father God, over every principality, every power, every dominion, every spirit of wickedness, Father God, in the name of Jesus. And we bind them right now. We thank you, dear Lord Jesus, for we declare this uh service tonight a no-fly zone, Father God. uh where uh no works of the enemy can prosper, Father God. For we declare them dead tonight, Father God, we bind them so that they will not interfere with the word of God as it goes forth tonight. We thank you now that as we humble ourselves before you, Father God, come to praise and to worship you and honor your presence here tonight. Father God, we ask that you would give us ears to hear. That you would open our hearts to understand and to receive and that you would allow your word, Father God, to bring life and joy and peace into our spirit, soul, and body. Father God, to the glory of your son, Jesus, we pray. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. We um uh so far have gone through the first uh seven chapters of the uh book of Revelation. Today we're going to deal with the seventh chapter and then move on. But basically we said that God works through dispensations. And we said that the dispensation of grace which is the church age when Jesus came and said I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it up until the time when the church it is rapture that means that the anointing power of God which is the Holy Spirit who landed God himself landed upon the 120 uh disciples and it was manifested by tongues of fire upon their heads. that anointing will be removed at that time because we said 120 time 50 equals 6,000 or the end of the six day work weak. So basically when the church is removed the the Holy F is God is everywhere. He's not removed but the anointing that was upon the church is removed because there's a church that's going to be left the Leoa church that have to go through the through the testing. And that's how they earned their salvation. They're the ones that have Jesus on the outside in in Revelation 3:20 to the church of Leo. They say Jesus says, "I stand at the door and knock. If you open the door, I will come in." Meaning that that's the only church that doesn't have Jesus in it. And so that church has to go through the through the trials and tribulations that will be taking place uh uh during that time. But we know that the seven that the uh 2,000 years of church that we have right now were divided into seven. I I got water here, but thank you. I'll take it. I'm going to call I'll take it. The other one kind of water. Thank you. Anyway, so the that that was divided into seven and we saw that it was seven seals. In the physical revelation of the church age, God gave us seven churches. Jesus appeared to John and send the message to seven churches and you can go historically from the beginning. Uh a church that was very much on fire for God and you can follow it to where it comes to I think it's our to where it says you have a reputation of being alive but you're dead. you know the to the church history and then it comes up to the last two churches where one is is going to be taken away and the other one is going to be left. And then when we came to the spiritual side of that we saw that it was through seven seals and we saw by by the paper that we had that that the seven seals uh the first four seals were the horses. the white horse, the red horse, the black horse, the pale horse. And this symbolized the spirit or the force that was moving the church age. And we saw that through Hitler and through the wars and the different things that were going on, the one world power that was going, the spirit of Antichrist. As a matter of fact, as we move on, you will see that there's three spirits jump out of the Antichrist like three frogs. I believe that those three spirits is the spirits that that govern the world today. One is Freud as you know Sigman Freud introduced the um uh uh the psychology that affects so much today. The other one was Carl Marx who introduced to us socialism which is what's trying to unite the world today. And the um and the fourth was um and the third one was um uh Darwin with evolution. those three spirits uh uh Freud, Darwin and and and Marx are the three forces that are governing today. And you'll see those spirits come out like frogs in the middle of the of the tribulation. So we know that there are spiritual forces driving the thing. So that we found out then that uh uh the the fifth seal deals with bringing Israel back as a nation and and bringing the world as a as as a united uh world, the new world order, which is what they're talking today. And when the sixth seal was open, we know that that involves a war that will take place on 1/4th of the earth. And that's the Middle East. And this will be an army that comes from the north who many believe is Russia with with uh Bethtomga, that's where Turkey is today and Persia, that's where Iran is today. And he names the people that come and it will invade Israel. And God is going to use that opportunity to show himself holy. In other words, right now, everybody has a different God. When this sixth seal takes place, the physical realm that we live in is going to be tore open. It's like a scroll. The sky is going to rolled up. See, those say they didn't have books like we do. They had uh uh scrolls that were rolled and you open it to read it. But if you let it go, it it rolled up again. He says that's what the sky is going to do. The sky is going to rolled up and then all of a sudden we're going to see Jesus. We're going to see God. Everybody in the whole world is going to see it. And then that's when the wrath of God is about to begin. So there is a conjunction. Then the first three chapters one, two, and three give us the physical history of the church age. Uh verses four, chapters four, five and six give us a spiritual version of it. And then on chapter 7, we have a coming together. A coming together. Now, last week I kind of make a made a parenthesis in the fact that we had to deal with in Matthew 24 Jesus says no one knows the day nor the hour. And the thing is if we see that Russia or some power from the north is invading Israel and that Israel is about to fall, you know, then we know that Jesus is about to come. And that's what he said. Jesus told the disciples when he gave him all of the sign. He said, "When you see these things begin to happen, look out. This is not the time." What what did he say when we open the sixth seal? He says, "Men hid to the caves and into the rocks." And he said, "Hide us from the wrath of him who's coming." Jesus says the opposite for us Christian when we see those things begin to take place. He says, "Look out for your redemption is getting very, very close to the word to know." And so I told you and we got ahead a little bit of ourselves last week that when Jesus says no one knows the day nor the hour, he's talking about the middle of the wrath of God, the middle of the seven years. And we're probably going to get into that next week in great detail. But let's pick it up now. And if you have the book, we'll be on page um 35. And uh at the bottom of the page, Matthew 24, chapters 40 and 41. And this is in the middle. Jesus is giving us at the beginning of Matthew 24. The disciple asked him, when is going to be the end of the age? What is going to be the sign that you're coming? So Jesus goes through a great list of things that will take place. He said, "Be careful that no one deceive you." That's a white horse. He says because many antichrist will come and say I am he and they will deceive many. Then he says there will be wars and rumors of war. That's the second horse. And they said will be famines and and and all kinds of uh economic things. He says that's not the end yet. And then when the when the fourth comes in that's when you say when the son of man come to come the lightning that flashes from the east goes to the west. I don't know if you ever had a lot of lightning storms every every summer and when a real big lightning falls close to where you are and you see it not just far. It's almost like the light in a lightning is so bright. It's almost like a crack appear in the middle of reality and you can see through the other side. I don't know if you ever felt that when I seen lightning real close. That's what it looked like. And that's what it is. the the the spiritual realm where God is is so bright that it when that happen, it's going to be like a crack that opens. And that's what Jesus says. Before I come, it's going to be like lightning. It's going to flash from the east to the west and boom, the sky is going to roll up like a scroll and you're going to see the bright light. And the people who love darkness are going to be fleeing to the caves and going to be scared thinking the end of the world is there. But for us who believe, we're going to be rejoicing because we know that our salvation is very near. So that's why I dealt with that day known only to the Lord. That when he said there's a day that is known only to the Lord, that is in the middle of the seven years, the wrath of God, when God kind of brings all of the clocks together. We just have our first conjunction of the clock. We had the 144th generation from Adam to us. I believe the 144th generation was born when Israel was born as a nation. And they call the generation today the baby boomer generation. I mean it even had one of the few generations that was named, you know, the the the baby boomer generation. That's that's I believe that's the last generation. The Bible says that Jesus is going to come before that generation ends. If it's 1947 or 1948, that takes you to 2017 or 2018. So that means the seven years had to take place before that because the seven years happened. That means 2010 is as far as we can go. If if this is the case, that that's how close we are, guys. That's how close I believe we are, you know. Yeah, that's how close we are. I believe that we're not close because if that last generation is the generation that was born when Israel was born, those seven years have to take place because the seven years include all of the events that Jesus says is going to take place. And those he says this generation shall not pass away until all of those events pass. Those events are going to pass transpire through the seven-year period. That means that the seven year have to start no later than 2010. Now might interest some of you that the Mayan calendar uh that was there in Mexico and in Peru that they found they calculated that the end of the world will be in 2017 and they have a snake that's called or whatever the snake supposed to come on on on se no on December 24th of 2011. They figure that this snake is going to come from the sky. You know it says in Revelation chapter 13 there was a a a dragon in the sky and his tail drew a tear of the stars. These people knew this back then. You see these are spiritual things and those people were deep into the spiritual things except they were into the dark part of the spiritual things. But now let's begin. If you got the books page 35 or go to Matthew 24 verse 40 and 41. And this is the rapture. He says, "Then two men will be in the field." No, this is this is the middle of the tribulation. The two then two men will be in the field. One will be taken and the other one left. Two women will be grinding at the meal. One will be taken and the other one left. And and then uh and then it says that it will be a day that is truly a day known only to the Lord. Now what is happening there is uh during the middle of the tribulation everybody will be killed by what we're going to be beginning to study today. Everybody that's on the earth one-third of the earth is going to be killed. So if the Jews are going to inherited a physical land and are going to have physical bodies because when we're resurrected our bodies are changed. Jesus says that in the resurrection we will have bodies like the angels who neither marry nor are given in marriage. I mean when we get our new bodies we're not going to have husbands wife. Jesus is the husband. He's is our Lord and all of us belong to him. So we're not going to be able to reproduce. So basically God has to keep some Jewish people that will be able to reproduce. Now, amazingly enough, only God knows our genetic makeup. And when it says there that one will be taken and one will be left, this is the Assa. That's what the day of the Lord was about. That's what the day of atonement was about. When you brought the two goats, you cast lots. One was led into the wilderness and one was taken to the slaughter. That mean you if you're a Jew, because that's for the Jews. If you're a Jew and you're married and either you, the husband or the wife, don't have the right genes, when the day of atonement comes, one of them will be killed. The other one will be spared to go into the wilderness. And then they're the ones that are going to be taken into the the caves and they're going to reproduce after the seven years so that God will have a physical inheritance. This is why you see that at the end of the thousand years, Satan is loosened. He had to be loosened because none of those people has ever faced temptation because Satan is bound with a great chain and is throwing into into the great pit. So I just wanted to conclude that from last week which took us ahead but just to to bring it down uh to that a scripture that I failed to use last week also is Jeremiah 33 2021 which is on page 36 and the Lord says thus sayeth the Lord if you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that there will be not so that there will not be a day and a night in their in my season in their season. Then my covenant may also be broken with David, my servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne and with the Levites, the priest, my minister. Notice how in Jeremiah, God says, I have a covenant with the day and with the night. That means God has a covenant where the sun has to go up and down or, you know, we see that it's going up and down, but where the earth has to go around. God says that covenant he made with David and he told David as long as day time and night time comes you will have a king to fall an anointed person to rule over you. You know many this is where the the uh uh many people believe that Jeremiah went wound up in in England. This is why so many of them are named Jeremy. And some people say that the stone that was underneath the the the throne back then is on the underneath the throne of England. There's all kinds of things that you can follow. But I believe the church today sits on the throne of David. And as soon as the throne of David is removed, uh the church is removed because if you look in Revelation chapter three when the Philadelphia church says, "I will open uh he will have the key of David and he will open that which cannot whatever he opens nobody can close and whatever he closes nobody can open." The key of David means the anointing that was upon David or upon Israel that's the anointing that is in the church. When the church is removed, that anointing is visited upon the Jews, 144,000 of them. But they rebel. Believe it or not, Israel rebels in the middle of the tribulation. As as they rebel, what happens is they will cease to have. See, when the antichrist takes over, they will not be one single entity on the earth to represent God's businesses here on earth. Right now, the church, the true church represent God's businesses. Israel represented it before that. Israel is going to represent it for the first 1260 days that we're going to cover now. But when they rebel and they are all killed and only a remnant is taken away and they're hidden some place, they will not be an agency on the earth that has to kill David. That's when the antichrist actually rises up and takes over. This is why the Bible says that during that time and if you got the book I got all of the scriptures there you can read it that then an angel from heaven comes and proclaimed the everlasting gospel. The gospel then has to be proclaimed by an angelic agency during that time. And you know what the angel says? If you accept the mark of the beast you'll go to hell forever and you will be beheaded for not accepting it. So I'm just kind of giving you a background of where we're getting into because this is a little bit more deeper. Now, what we're going to do, we're going to go to the uh the page 37. And if you got your book, we're going to go to Revelation chapter 8, verse one. If you want to follow through the Bible, this is what happens after the rapture. We are taken away. There was a war in Israel. Uh all of the sudden, as Israel is being surrounded by armies, the armies are surrounding Jerusalem. Jesus intervene when the sixth seal is open there's a great earthquake all of the foundations of the mountains all over the world will be moved the mean here in California all of those uh uh uh base of the mountains are all going to be shaken it says every wall is going to fall and then the sky is going to recede everybody's going to know that Jesus is coming as we're taken away now begins a period of time which is 1,260 days or the first half of the seven years. And God is going to concentrate his efforts or his focus on this first half is going to be Israel because he takes Israel and anoints them and the two witnesses that come who is uh Enoch and Elijah are going to establish the law and temple worship during that time and they're going to tell the world you have to fulfill the law. You have to live by the law. And it says that during that 1,260 days, any nation who does not follow the law that they laid down, rain is not going to come upon them. There's going to be famine. There's going to be all kinds of things. So now the law is given. Now, let's look at the spiritual side of the first 1,260 days after we're gone. Revelation 8:1. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of a half an hour. Now if you remember you have the four which produce the two and the seventh always is the one that connects you into the next realm. Like when you have innocent conscience, human government promise out of those four things comes Israel and the church. And when Israel and the church combine comes the kingdom age. Then on the church age we had the white horse, the red horse, the black horse, the pale horse. Then we had the souls under the altar. We had the wrath of the lamb. And then when the church is raptured, that leads us into the seven years wrath of God. Now we're going to see the same principle over here. If you have this is the first, the second, the third, and the fourth trumpets that are going to be taking place. Now notice that it says about the space of a half an hour. Now what God is going to do here, he's already judged the church. How were we judged? If you kept his word and if you believe on the deity of Jesus, you're gone. He says, "Because you have kept my word and you have not deny my name, I will keep you from the hour." Listen to what Jesus says. The scripture is there. It this in Revelation chapter 3:10. Because you have kept my command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world to test those who dwell in the world. So the judgment of God begins with the church. You believe his word, you keep his name, he's going to keep you from the hour that's coming to test it. The church le say those believe the word, they get left. So that is the judgment of the church. One of them is gets gone. One gets left behind. Now we begin the judgment of Israel. Before you can judge Israel, you have to put him back in charge. Anointing. So 144,000 of them are are anointed. This is done through the two witnesses. to step when the cloud is open out of heaven. They send these two witnesses who have never died who were taken up to heaven and have to come to earth to die because the Bible says it is appointed of men once to die. Then comes the judgment since Elijah never died and see it cannot be Moses. Moses died and was buried. If Moses died twice, dying twice is the second death. That's them for eternity. You don't want to die a second time. You just want to die the natural death and that's it. And we're already dead in Christ. So we don't even die. The Bible says absent from the body, present with the Lord. Our body may die, but we just go straight up to heaven. So the idea here is now that God is going to deal with Israel and he's going to deal with him in this hour. Remember this hour uh I think it's in in Isaiah says, "For the day of the Lord is the year of retribution." That's 365 Sabbath. Jesus called this period of time the hour. He says that uh in in Revelation 3:10, I will keep you from the hour of trial. The fact that it says in Revelation chapter 81, there was in silence in heaven for about half an hour, meanings that we're going to be dealing with the first half of the seven-year period. So everything you see here now is going to is what's going to happen from day one when we get taken out to 1,260 days which is by the way three and a half years. Three and a half years. This is what's going to happen. Okay. And uh Revelation 8 2 through 6. And I saw seven angels who stand before God. And to them were given seven trumpets. Then another angel having a golden sensor came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all of the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saint ascended before God from the angel's hand. Then the angel took the sensor filled it with a fire from the earth the altar and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightning, and an earthquake. So the seven angels who had the seven trumpers prepared themselves to sound. Here we see if if you remember when the fifth seal was open in Revelation chapter 6, when the fifth seal was open, he says, "I saw the souls under the altar of those who have been slaughtered for the sake uh of the word." He doesn't call them Christian. I believe that these are the Jews and the many people who believe the word but they were not Christian. And he saw them dressed in white. They were given harps and they asked God, "How long before you judge the world for what they did to us? How long before you judge Hitler and before you judge Staling and before you judge all of this tyrant that's been killing us and killing us and killing us and raping our children and killing our How long? Now notice that it says there that as the seventh seal is open in heaven, we see that there's lightnings and thunders and an angel takes like a some kind of a bowl or something. He the fire that's burning out of the altar of God. He fills it with that puts incense. Incense is like prayer. You know incense is a powder. You throw it in the fire and it goes up and the incense is mixed with the prayers of the saints. This is payback time, baby. That's what that mean. This is payback time. Every soul that got in heaven, every person got resurrected in heaven that was mistreated, that was beaten, that was whoever it was that did it. This is where nations are going to be judged. Nations, you know, when the Jews were were were being slaughtered, many nations did not want them. Cuba, they they had a big ship full of Jews and they turned him back. I believe that's why we had had 50 years of Fidel Castro, the mystery we had, you know, and this is how it's been. nations are going to be judged by how they treated not only Jews but the Christians who are now in heaven are saying to God yeah that guy over there he he killed 150,000 of us this is time so when this fire is released the prayers of the saint that's saying how long before you judge it is make and is throwing down onto the earth and it comes in the form of seven trumpets now the seals the first four seals where in the form of a horse that gallops and gallops and gallop takes forever. A trumpet is this is fast. This is not going to take a long time to take place. When the trumpet blows, this thing is going to begin. And so it it it as a reference you can look at Deuteronomy 32 34 and 35 where God says, "Is this not laid up in store with me? Seal upon my treasures. Vengeance is mine and recompense. Their foot shall slip in due time. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them." So this is the beginning now of the judgment of God upon the world. Now Revelation 8:7 says the first angel that's on next page 39 says the first angel sounded and hail and fire followed mingled with blood and they were thrown to the earth and a third of the trees were burned up and all green grass was burned up. Now I want you to see the symbolism here. During the third seal he says 14th 1/4 you need to understand four is a number for the physical creation. You have east, west, north and south square. Everything is square. You saw the four angels holding back the four winds on the corners of the earth. This is speaking about a judgment that was man against man. This is why Israel was invaded. Now we're coming to spiritual judgment. That's what number three is. Number three is the number of the spirit. God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. So you see that the judgments here are based on onethird one-third of the trees. In in Revelation 8:7 it says, "And a third of the trees were burned out." Revelation 8:9, the second angel sounded like a great mountain burning with fire. A turn of the living a third of the living creatures in the sea died. Revelation 8:10 and 11. A third of the waters became warm wood and many men died from the water because he was made bitter. And the fourth trumpet and the fourth angel sounded. This is Revelation 8:12. And a third of the sun was struck and a third of the moon and a third of the stars. So a third of them were darkness and a third of the day did not shine likewise the night. So the night. So what we see here now is a spiritual judgment. First there was a physical judgment. The churches were judged in the physical. Whether we kept the word of God, whether we believe that Jesus is the son of God, whether we believe that the word of God is a real uh uh that the Bible is a real word of God. We deny we did not denied his name and we kept his word. And then there was a physical army, man against man. That was the first judgment or the end of the church age was the war, man versus man. People who hate the people of God. Did you know I was reading I just got my thing from the uh the Assemblies of God International. They send uh every three months they send the magazine. The most popular books that are out right now, three or four books, are all about atheists spouting their hate towards the children of God, towards the word of God. There's so much demand for the books that they're writing. They're having to do printings and printing and printing after that. This is spiritual sign that we're on the end time. Tremendous hate. Why? Because they're demonic. The stronger the demons in them, the more they hate the word of God, the more they hate the people of God. But here in this realm that we're starting right now, it is a spiritual versus the physical. One-third of the trees, one-third of the sea, one-third of the earth, one-third of the skies, the sun, the moon, and the star. What that means now, there's going to be a conflict or war between humans and spirits. And this is what we need to see. these four forces that you see. And remember, you have to keep in mind that these four things are like spirits or forces that are released. And those four things are the the power behind the 1,260 days. These three and a half years are going to be driven by spirits behind the earth, behind the rivers, behind the sea, and behind the stars. This force is going to drive everything to what is called three walls. And let's go to the next trumpet. And now you you'll see it how it makes sense. Revelation 8:13. And I look and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven. There is an angel now. This is spiritual. saying with a loud voice, "Woe, wo, wo to the inhabitants of the earth because of the remaining blast of the trump of the three trumpets or of the three angels that have the trumpet that are about to sound." These three wolves are the consequences of these four forces that were unleashed. They were unleashed upon the earth. Now remember for those of you that were here when we just finished our supernatural lesson in the supernatural realm, what did we dealt with? We dealt with the sea saying that's where the seed of Satan is. Then we dealt with the air. That's where the wicked spirit is where the principalities rule from. Then we dealt with the creeping things and we dealt with the cattle. Here's the same thing. This is the whole sphere uh spiritual fear where all these four different levels of demonic Christians are is going to be judged. There is a judgment that is taking place and it will happen when when the fifth when the sixth trumpets blow. Why? Because we saw that we we've been following that principle. The four horsemen were the fourth. Then when the fifth seal was open, we saw Israel being judged so that Israel could come back into the land. When the sixth seal is open, we see the church being judged. One gets left, one gets taken up. And then when we saw the seventh seal open up, that's what led us into the rapture. And that's what leds us into the beginning of the seven years of God's wrath. Now, let's go to the first wall. Revelation 9 verses 1-6. Then the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth. Now remember star represents spiritual things. In Revelation chapter one at the end of the chapter says here's the mystery of the stars and of the seven lampson. He says the stars are the pastors or the messengers or the force behind the church. The seven lampson represent the church. So here's the spirit. That's what it mean. the first spirit falls down. He says, "And when the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit, and he opened the bottomless pit." Now, how many of you know who this is? This is Satan. Jesus said, "I saw Satan fall down from heaven like lightning." This is Satan. Why? Because right now the third heaven is where Jesus and God are. This is when Jesus in the Lord's prayer says, "Our father who are in heaven, uh, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." That heaven is the third heaven where God is, his will is done perfectly there. The second heaven, however, where Satan is, his will is not being done there. That's the real of Satan. What is called now the underworld. When Jesus comes, we are not taken to heaven. If you listen carefully, he says that Jesus is going to come to the clouds and that we're going to rise up to the clouds to meet the Lord where on the air. Where is Satan? The prince of what? He is the prince of the power of the air. Satan is on this in between the third heaven and earth right now. When Jesus comes in from the rapture, guess who he kicks out? Satan. Guess where he kicks him out from? The second heaven. And guess who he kicks out with him? All of the demons that are with him right now. So actually at the end of the church age, the second heaven is restored like it was originally. See, that's where Adam lived. Even though Adam was on the earth, it says that at the cool of the evening, they went, Adam and Eve went to fellowship with God. Where? In this in between, God would come down from it's like you having a house and having a garden. God lives in the house. They lived in the in in the outside and they met in the garden with God. The garden is a meeting place. That's where we're going to go. We're never going to go to heaven. People don't understand that. We don't uh if we die now, our spirit, we go to heaven. But during the rapture, if we're alive when the rapture takes place, we're not going to heaven. We're going to the air. That's where Jesus is coming to the clouds to be of the air. And we're going to be with him there forever. The Bible says and then Jesus during the seven years is going to purify the earth. And at the end of seven years, he going to come down to where? To the earth because this is our real. We're physic Home Previous Next

FELLOW HEIRS The objective of this message is to teach believers their identity and inheritance as fellow heirs with Christ, showing how the mystery revealed to Paul confirms that Gentiles are now partakers of God’s promises through Jesus. The message aims to equip listeners to walk boldly in the authority, power, and love granted to them as co-heirs, living in the dispensation of grace with full access to the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. FELLOW HEIRS Minister Lisa Kane September 20, 2024 Objective: The objective of this message is to teach believers their identity and inheritance as fellow heirs with Christ, showing how the mystery revealed to Paul confirms that Gentiles are now partakers of God’s promises through Jesus. The message aims to equip listeners to walk boldly in the authority, power, and love granted to them as co-heirs, living in the dispensation of grace with full access to the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane explores the profound truth that Gentiles, through the gospel, have become fellow heirs with Christ (Ephesians 3:6). She explains how Jesus, the Word made flesh, fulfilled God’s plan by temporarily setting Israel aside so that the good news could reach the Gentiles. Through Paul’s revelation, believers now understand the mystery hidden for ages: that we are joint heirs with Christ, empowered by grace to share in His promises and authority. Lisa highlights that this inheritance calls us not only to salvation but also to walk in the same power Jesus demonstrated, empowered by the Holy Spirit to do even greater works. She emphasizes the importance of humility, obedience, and being rooted in love, for love is the foundation of all spiritual fruit and gifts. Drawing from John 14:12 and Paul’s testimony, she illustrates how believers are called to live boldly, ministering in unity as the body of Christ, showing God’s love in action. The message closes with a call to abide in Christ through prayer, Scripture, and obedience, allowing His love to transform hearts and His Spirit to manifest through gifts and fruit. As fellow heirs, believers are encouraged to embrace their divine calling, walking in confidence, boldness, and love to bring salvation and transformation to the world. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I am recording this teaching on Friday, September 20th, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we pray that your word does not return void. We pray that your word penetrates deep within our soul in our spirit in our mind as knowledge where it manifests the anointing of your holy spirit. Thank you father god. You are precious and holy and in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Welcome. I don't know if you can hear but we've got like a thunderstorm coming over here. So you're going to hear thunder here and it is windy. So and it just came on out of nowhere. So anyways, moving on. This message is called Fellow Heirs. Very excited about this teaching. I hope that you are blessed by it. Let's go to our opening scripture here. Ephesians 3:6. That the Gentiles should be fellows and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel. So, the way I teach, in case you're new to this uh platform here, I'd like for you to notice that in the King James version, that's the scriptures I use. And the bolded words are the words in the King James version that the translators chose to translate from Hebrew or Greek into English. Well, that word that I have bolded could also mean other things. So like fellow heirs is co-air co-air joint heir together partakers is co-articipants promise is the announcement or pledge and the gospel is a good message so those are the words that could have been used and anyways um I like to add that extra words because it brings a more deeper meaning to us in our spirit. Amen. It just started pouring. Okay. So what is this? So this message is called fellow heirs. So here I want to go into the purpose of what I'm talking about. Jesus came to us as a man even though he was a spirit in the beginning. If you go back to John 1 1 through3 let's let's read that. It says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God and all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. And remember the word became flesh, which is what Jesus represented. So because that word became flesh, that's Jesus. He was there in the beginning. He was born a woman, grew up a man, died as the son of God, taking on all the sin of the world. He rose from the grave three days later, ascended to heaven just before the day of Pentecost. You can go read about that in Acts 1 and two. So what the coming of Jesus did, he did two things and and you're going to see us fellow heirs. You're going to see us as a participant in the acts of what Jesus did. You're going to see that what we can do today. So uh the coming of Jesus did two things. It put Israel on hold until the return as a nation which happened in 1948 and Jerusalem became the capital in 1967. And this is on hold or Israel's on hold until the day of the Lord takes place. That has not happened yet. Right now we are in the time of the Gentiles. So the second thing Jesus did is he brought the gospel gospel good news to the Gentiles causing us to become fellow heirs with him for those who believe. So he had to put Israel on the sidelines to accomplish this task. He did this by having them rejected. So remember this was all to the purpose of God. He did this on purpose. So to fulfill the purpose of this teaching, we're going to show you what it is to have those promises and the power that Jesus had to do the things that he did. Because if we're co-airs, if we're fellow heirs, we get to do the same thing he did. You're going to see that here in just a moment. So let's go to Ephesians. We're going to be focusing here in chapter 3. So we saw verse 6 is our opening scripture. So now we're going to read verses 2-7. If ye have heard of the dispensation or administration, stewardship, appointed order or age of the grace of God which is given to me to you word. I want to pause here and I I think it's important to address this. There's a lot of teaching out there that says dispensational teaching is not biblical. Well, I'm we are in the fullness of the Gentiles, the dispensation of grace. And you can see Paul clearly talking about that here. If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me to you word. What Jesus did is he redeemed us of our sins. When he died, his pure blood landed on the mercy seat. He rose from the grave in power. And because he did that, he wiped away the sin of the world. And you get to accept that. You get to be a part of that freedom that Jesus accomplished. And to be fellows, guess what? When Jesus died, he rose from the grave. When you die, you rise from the grave. Your joint hes, fellow hes. Okay, I want you to get this and I want you to understand this. Verse three, how that by revelation and notice what he said by the way in verse two of the grace of God which is given to me given me to you word if you heard of this disposition in other words if you believe you heard it you accepted it remember there's a choice here been emphasizing the choice factor over the last couple of teachings verse three how that by revelation or disclosure or manifestation he made known unto me the mystery which is a secret as I wrote a or in few words whereby when ye read ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. There's a secret here that Paul is going to tell us. This is very interesting. I want you to get this. This see the let's continue on. Let's read uh verse five. Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as it see the purpose of Jesus coming. There was prophecy written but the revelation of what he accomplished was not revealed in the past. So Paul is say see when Paul met Jesus on the road to Damascus. Remember Paul was Saul at that time and he was coming after the church big time. He was going because he believed in the Bible the great God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He did not believe or accept that Jesus was the son of God. So he came after the Christians, but Jesus interveneed on that road to Damascus. And when he intervened, Saul became Paul. And so for the next three years, he went into the wilderness. You see, Paul was the biggest of the Pharisees. He knew the scriptures. But in that three-year time period, he went to see the revelation of what who Jesus is as a son of God through his teachings he grew up with. And so that mystery became revelation to him. He got it. And now he because he's called to teach to the Gentiles, he wants to reveal that message to you and I. And that's what he's saying here. So which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit that and here's our opening scripture that the Gentiles should be fellow airs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel the good message. Verse seven, whereof I was made a minister which is attendant run errands according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. This is incredible the revelation that Paul is sharing here. So we are in this in between time of putting Israel on hold and before the day of the Lord comes. What we know about this time is that it is the time of the Gentiles. You and I, the the Israelites don't have sacrifices anymore. That's stopped. They didn't have a temple anymore to go into because the power of God wasn't there anymore. The veil's been ripped in two. And it was thick, too. It ripped. But they can walk into the temp. Anybody can walk into the temple now and be a part with God, have a relationship with God, be a partaker of what God and Jesus promised us. So, we're in this in between time, this pause of Israel, the dispensation of grace. And here we are, by the way, as Gentiles teaching and preaching to the world. That's our responsibility. So this mystery that Paul was given was kept from the pro prophets and anyone who lived before Jesus and it became manifested to Paul and he began to write and teach about it and not only to anyone who wanted to read it but to the Gentiles specifically. You see Paul didn't walk with the apostles or the disciples in Jesus day. He came after and yet the Lord used him to get the Gentiles. Cuz see the apostles, the disciples are all Jewish. Paul Jewish. But God said to Jesus said to Paul, "I want you to go teach to the Gentiles." So he did. So, as Paul is explaining, as we continue to read here in Ephesians chapter 3, we need to understand the knowledge, the mystery that was revealed to him, this teaching of the redemption of the blood of Jesus to the Gentiles for the sin. Because in our opening scripture, Paul clearly tells us that we're fellows of this of the same body. We're partakers of this promise that Christ gave to the Israelites and to us. And there's a power that comes with this teaching and it's a gift of the grace of God. So why do we need to know this? Because that's a very good question. Go to John 14:12. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth or has faith in me, on me, the works or the toil, the labor that I do, Jesus says, shall he, that's you and me, do also, and greater or larger works than these shall he do because I go unto my father. Oh, so see, Jesus isn't here anymore. He ascended into heaven. So, he left us the Holy Spirit. And when you saw the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 1 and two, you will see the anointing and that power come forth. We have that power, the Gentiles, to minister to those and do greater things than what Jesus did. That's and it almost seems impossible, but let's remember something here. You know, Jesus, a one-man individual, he did a lot while he while he was here. If you remember the end of the last verse of John chapter of the gospel of John which is John 21:2 it tells us that there are also many other things which Jesus did the which they should be written everyone I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. So let's understand something here. When Jesus rose from the grave he invited everyone to his grace. Remember, anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13. Now, Israel rejected him as the son of God. So, they got put on pause. They will be dealt with in the seven-year time period of God's wrath. Go read Revelation and Daniel. But as Gentiles in the time of the Gentiles, we are partakers of this power, and we get to do things even greater than him because we're fellows. So, how is this done? Let's go back to Ephesians 3 and let's start in verse eight here. Unto me who am less than least of all saints. See, Paul is recognizing, listen, I didn't walk with Jesus on the earth. I'm the least of them all. And yet, he walked in power. He walked in authority. And he changed the world with his teaching to the Gentiles. Paul did magnificent things. He continued the ministry of what Jesus was doing, which is what we're called to do as fellow hes. Hope you're getting this. Is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ? You see, everything that Christ has done is worthy, valuable. It's more valuable than money. It's more valuable than our lives because he's saving lives with his ministry. Amen. And to make all men see, this is Paul talking. I'm going to make all men see because this is what he's called to do. What is the fellowship? The mystery. The fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ. Remember, God hid this on purpose. He did this with a purpose and a plan. He kept it hidden. He's revealing it. It's It's as if all of the Old Testament, which is true life events, were written for you and I today in today's generation because we I do believe we're in that last generation just before his return or we won't our generation won't end as he returns. Amen. Let's continue on in verse 10. To the intent that now unto the principalities, you've got these rules. That's what principalities are. And powers as privilege in heavenly places might be known by the church. That's you and I. The calling out the manifold wisdom of God according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you which is your glory or honor. So what is he saying here? Let's let's break this down. We have access to these rules and these powers to be bold, to be confident in sharing of the good news. And Paul is encouraging us. He doesn't want us to be bad, weak, fail, weary. This message, we shouldn't get tired of sharing it. It is the most important thing in the world. So when we see tribulations, things that Jesus did, he died on the cross. Every one of the disciples all were martyed except for John. I think he died of natural causes. But either way, they were all martyed. This is a blessing. And I want you to see this is not something we should look at and go. No, what we should do is look at it and say, "Hallelujah." Because see, life and death is in the palm of the hand of God. And the moment we leave our bodies, we come into his presence, absent from the body, present with the Lord. Oh death, oh death, where is your sting? Hallelujah. You see, this is the honor that we have. We get to walk in this confidence, in this boldness, knowing that we are fellow airs with Christ and what his ministry stood for, what his power does. We are the church calling out. We should be walking in this. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let's go back to Ephesians 3 and we're now in verse 14. For this cause, I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to see something here. Paul is showing us the access, the privilege that we have of getting this power. You see, there's a condition of the heart that makes this possible. And a lot of us aren't ready. I remember years ago, I'm going to share a testimony at our Wednesday night Bible study next week, but a little piece of it. I remember going to tell after hearing the voice of God tell me to go to church. I remember going to confront my husband and in that moment I felt like I had every power and authority that I could do that I could cause lightning to come down. Hey, my husband's still alive so all is well. But how I felt so anticlimatic and defeated when he said, "Okay, I'll go with you." I thought I was going to have to fight him to go to church. Well, the fight came later. But in that moment, I had every power and authority and I knew it. And the reason I teach this now is because I want you to know and understand that as fellow heirs, we have this power. We have this authority to come in and to make a difference and to show people the true power of God. Not witchcraft, not uh voodoo or any of that junk. No, we are looking at the true power and authority of God that we have access to. And he's showing us how to do it. He bowed his knees. So he humbled himself. And then look at what he says. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. We come through the descendant or lineage of Adam. Adam failed. But Jesus came through that same line. We come through that same line. We're brothers and sisters with Jesus. I hope you're getting that. In heaven and earth is named. Verse 16. that he would grant give you according to the riches the wealth of his glory to be strengthened. You're you're empowered increased in vigor with might which is that force or miraculous power by his spirit in the inner man. You should be able to feel this on the inside. You should be hearing the anointing of the Holy Spirit. So he started off with the humbling. Remember he humbled himself and now he's got this might. So what happens next? He this verse 17 that Christ may dwell. Oh, wait a second here. Have I been teaching on abiding in the secret place with the Lord? How many messages now? Here's Paul telling us by humbling him, getting that power, you're to dwell in the in your heart with by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love. Here's love. I just taught on this last week. We need to have love. Without love, it's clanging symbols. It's nothing. And there's people who called out demons in the name of Jesus and did all this because demons know the name of Jesus is powerful. But when that person goes to face judgment with God and that person says, "Well, I cast out all those demons in your name. I did all this in your name." And Jesus says, "I don't know who you are." See the love is absolutely imperative that we have in our hearts. So let's read that again. Verse 17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend. Look at this word comprehend is to take eagerly seize possess with all things. Meaning we got to do this in unity. We do this as a body of Christ. We do this as the church. And look what he says. What is the breadth and length and depth and height? We're gonna continue on in a minute. That just means every part of Jesus. Every part. How high he is, how low he'll go, how far to the left or right he will go to get us. That is what he's telling us here. We can understand that completely by humbling ourselves, getting our love back in our heart, which is understanding the love of God. Jesus did the ultimate love sacrifice. He went to the cross and died for us. That's love. I don't care what anyone else says. It could be, "Oh, I got this feeling and emotion." No, no, no. It's the benevolence. It's the the obligation. Jesus had an obligation and he went and did his duty. That's the kind of love we're talking about. It It's a self-control emotional aspect, but it's a knowing in the mind. I got to go do this because I need so and so to be saved. I got to go tell him. I got to stay strong in the Lord. I got to get in my secret place because I need that love in me to keep moving me forward so that I have it purposed in my heart. I want so and so saved. I gotta get my brother, my sister, my love, my cousins, my parents, my children. This is what you're fighting for. This is what you're living for. Amen. And this is it. And look at this verse 19. And to know the love of Christ. There it is. The affection and benevolence which passes knowledge. It goes past beyond the knowledge of it that ye may be filled with fullness of God. Because that's how you're going to understand that. That's how you're going to know this. You see, by humbling ourselves and and understanding what Christ did on the cross. That's where love starts. Hey, he died for me. There's you don't even have to have an emotional experience to that. It's a start. It's a knowledge. And what happens is because you have that knowledge, you say, "Okay, well, I want to go find out more about who Jesus is." and you begin to spend time with him. What happens? You're abiding in him. That knowledge the the effective it begins goes beyond knowledge. It's now an emotional integral part of your being that when people see you, they get to know you. They know you by your fruits because you're walking in love. You are walking in that holiness with him. And they see that And it is strengthening your inner man because you're letting the word of God, remember that's Jesus Christ in the flesh, was the word and the word became flesh. That word you're allowing it to manifest, boil right out of you and it is splattering on everyone around you because love is what binds us all together. This is what brings us into that unity. Amen. You can go read 1 Corinthians chapters 12,13 and 14. You will see how love works especially in the gifts of the power of the Holy Spirit. And these are gifts that Christ gives us so that we can bring those we love to his holiness. So we but we have to understand comprehend the rules the powers that God has established for us as the church to use. We have to know how to use them. We don't want to be ignorant of that. This is why when he talks about the height, the width, the depth, the length, he's showing us a complete full understanding of how God sets things up, how he operates in that power through love and obedience. Because Paul was not only did he bow his knees, humble himself, get the love, and dwell in Christ, he was obedient to do that actionable item. That's what he did. Oh, that's incredible. Let's go read the last two verses in chapter 3, Ephesians. Now unto him that is able. Not everyone can do this, but he's talking to you and me. Watch this. Now unto him that is able possible to do exceeding abundantly over above all that we ask or think according to the power the miraculous power that workketh in us. Unto him be glory unto God be glor or actually unto us be the glory honor in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end. Amen. Catch that he's talking about us. He's saying you know if you're able see possible it starts with knowledge you see something happen you see a miracle and you're just like okay I remember I've seen these things I mean my my young adulthood of life I grew up in the church but at that point in my life what God did to transform me was incredible. So, I got the knowledge of it then. But what the Lord has been working on me throughout my life since is building up his love in my heart because I'm coming to realize how much he loves others as much as he loves me. I shared this before. I'll share it again. I did not want to pray for Hamas who attacked Israel. I felt Israel should kick their behinds out of here. But I also felt very conflicted about that. The Holy Spirit was telling me, "You need to pray for them. I love them just as much as you." And when I was obedient to that and I prayed for them and I not only prayed, I prayed that I I forgave them. I had to forgive them. That's the act of obedience here. I forgave them. And then I asked God to forgive them. Remember Jesus says, "Whatever you forgive, I will forgive." So he becomes obligated to forgive and he forgave them. And then I asked for the Holy Spirit to move in their hearts and minds. And God sent them a vision of the same man in their dreams. Over 200 Hamas men had that dream. They went to the missionary which was nearby and they said, "What does this mean?" And the missionary was able to minister to them and they were harvested. They became believers in Christ. And I am very confident that my prayer is what pushed that over the edge. So I continue to pray today in obedience because he loves them just as much as he loves me. So all those people we see in the world that we don't like, he loves them just as much as he loves me. So who is able? Are you able? Are you able to believe? Are you able to dwell in the secret place with him? Are you able to go find out? Because you are fellow heirs. You are. When Jesus was ascending from heaven, he made a pit stop. He stopped at the garden of Gethsemane or excuse me at at where the stone was rolled away where he was buried. His body was buried and Mary Magdalene was there and he stops. So he's got like billions of souls behind him and he stops and he says to her, "My father, I go to my father, your father." uh my God, your God. That is him fulfilling the fact that we are fellow airs, joint hes that before we were made a little lower than the angels, we're now equal with Jesus. And I hope you understand that. And if Jesus can walk in the power and the authority to raise people from the dead, to heal people from the sick that and to let them see and no longer be blind. Guess what? we have the access and privilege to do because we are fellow heirs. We can do that. That is our calling and we should be doing that. And what do you do? Humble yourself before the Lord. Get on your knees. Dwell in the place. Read his scriptures. Ask him. Start talking with him. Let his word come back to you as you read it because that's his communication to you. And then you ask him and he will reveal to you as he did Paul. Paul is a fellow air as well. And we're fellow airs right there with Paul. Jesus. If he can reveal a mystery to Paul, he can reveal it to us. And he can answer every single one of your questions that you have because that's who we believe in and that's who we partner with. That's who we are co-artakers with. He has all the knowledge. He's the creator. Well, that means we get to know everything. Now we don't know everything but when we come together in unity and remember that love that he has for everyone that love that we begin to show and we abide in and we let that love manifest in us then Jesus can move through us and that allows the Holy Spirit to push through and let the gifts move through us. Let us become fruitful. It it shows us the fruit. We we begin to manifest the love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance. That is the fruit. And then the gifts on above and beyond that where we get to talk to someone and and share something with them that they never told you. That's the Holy Spirit revealing something to you to get their attention. How did you know about that? That is the Holy Spirit manifesting. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. You are amazing and glorious and faithful and I thank you for your word. Lord, I pray that we hear your word that we take the action of it by humbling ourselves, getting to know the knowledge of what you have done on the cross and the rising of your from the grave, the rising of you from the grave. And we just pray that that penetrates our heart and that we actually abide in your word. We pray and ask that the gifts and the fruits of the Holy Spirit uh the fruits manifest in us and stay within us and we get to show that for the rest of our lives and that the gifts manifest so that we can minister to your body in the name of Jesus and to the souls that are lost out there right now Lord. Thank you father God in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

THE FOUNDATION TO WALKING IN THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT The objective of this teaching is to establish a biblical foundation for walking in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It emphasizes the importance of humility, love, unity, and a strong relationship with the Lord as the groundwork necessary to operate effectively in spiritual gifts. By exploring Ephesians 4, the lesson calls believers to walk worthy of their calling and to use their God-given gifts for the edification and unity of the Body of Christ. THE FOUNDATION TO WALKING IN THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT Minister Lisa Kane June 1, 2025 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to establish a biblical foundation for walking in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It emphasizes the importance of humility, love, unity, and a strong relationship with the Lord as the groundwork necessary to operate effectively in spiritual gifts. By exploring Ephesians 4, the lesson calls believers to walk worthy of their calling and to use their God-given gifts for the edification and unity of the Body of Christ. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane of House of Faith Ministries shares insights on “The Foundation to Walking in the Gifts of the Spirit” from Ephesians 4. She begins by stressing that spiritual gifts must rest on a solid foundation of humility, meekness, patience, and love. Walking in these virtues allows believers to exercise their calling—whether teaching, evangelizing, shepherding, prophesying, or simply serving with kindness—in a way that glorifies Christ rather than themselves. Lisa underscores that the gifts are given not for personal recognition but for building up the church in unity under one Spirit, one Lord, and one faith. She reminds listeners that while doctrines may differ among teachers, love and prayer must guide how we relate to one another, avoiding division and deception. The teaching highlights that every calling is valuable, whether seen or unseen, and that true effectiveness comes from submitting to the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to transform hearts. Ultimately, the message encourages believers to pursue their calling with obedience, grounded in love, and anchored in Christ, so that the body of Christ may grow in maturity and unity until His return. 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 teaching on Sunday, June 1st, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word that it does not return void, that it fills us, that we remember it, that we apply it to our lives, that we're hearing your word, and that we don't forget it. Thank you for teaching us your word. And I thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Welcome. I'm glad you can join us. This teaching is called the foundation to walking in the gifts of the spirit. We're going to be in Ephesians 4. So, let's start here with verse one. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech or invite you that ye walk worthy or appropriately of the vocation wherewith ye are called. So, what I'm going to do here in this teaching is teach a foundational approach to walking in the spirit. uh the gifts of the spirit. This is because um we're to walk in the gifts of the spirit. But in order to walk in those gifts, we need to know what we're doing. And we need to make certain that we have our relationship established with the Lord, that we are spending time with the Lord. We're in a different season in time than let's say 20 years ago, even 10 years ago. Our season that we're in, we're fast approaching end times here. And I'm expecting this to happen in our lifetime. So this is a time where one, we have to put God first in our lives. He's our priority. And two, we need to understand what's going on. Now, I'm called to teach. I'm called to be a teacher. And I teach the word of God, which means I'm studying it, spending a lot of time with the Lord, asking him a lot of questions. Now, this particular teaching, last Tuesday night, we I was in a a Bible study that I attend on Zoom on Tuesday nights. It's a women's group Bible study. and uh uh it kind of became an impromptu teaching. So, now that I've had more time to look at it, I'm going to add a little bit more to it, but we're going to talk about that foundation to walking in the gifts of the spirit. And I'm praying that you pray about this. You spend some time with the Lord. Ask him where your calling is. You know, I'm also an intercessory prayer. I don't I'm not a pastor. I'm not called to pastor a church. I do not have that going. That's a special calling if you ask me. But I am called to teach and that I do whether anyone listens to me or not. I'm being obedient to the Lord and I'm teaching might be a unique different kind of way because I do it through video. But I also teach live either through online or at locations, churches and stuff like that and Bible studies and so forth. But my primary teaching is right here through the House of Faith Ministries and it is through the this web. If you have questions, you can email them. go to the contact us in houseof faith ministries.org and um I will get your message. All right. All right. So here's the first verse that I just read a little bit ago. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. So he's telling us listen you need to walk worthy what's uh he appropriately for the calling that you are in. Now whether that calling is to be a pastor or a teacher and remember even though we're going to talk about certain specific gifts of the spirit here the intent is that whatever you believe your calling is and your calling could be different. You could be organizing group events. You could be uh walking daily because you need to do that for your health and you're smiling people telling people God bless you. Have a great day. that type of calling is also included in this and he's telling you to walk worthy of it. So in other words, if you wake up tired, which I woke up tired this morning. I um didn't sleep well last night. But at the same time, it's like, you know what, Lord, I'm still going to teach your message. I'm still putting in my full potential because that is what we're called to do. So Paul is telling us very clearly to walk appropriately in that calling. No, he's telling us how to do it with all loneliness. That which is another word for modesty or humbleness and meekness, which is gentleness, with longsuffering, fortitude, forbearing or putting up with one another in love. Let's stop there for a minute because see this is the foundation that we are realizing is how we're going to walk in the gifts of the spirit in the calling. So he's telling us one to walk appropriately and he's telling us what the appropriateness is. And in this case, it's appropriate to be modest, humble. I I don't do this for least of glory. I do it for the king of glory, Jesus. That's my calling. I serve him. Last week when I taught, I talked about who we serve, who we're servants to, whether it is through we're servants to sin or we're servants to righteousness. So here I'm taking my servantthood, my slavehood if you will, to the Jesus Christ and to the gifts that he's called me to walk in. In my case, I'm in intercessory prayer and I do teaching. Whatever your case may be, he's telling us to walk in that humbleness and modesty, which means we're not get we don't do it for the glory. We do it for his glory. So anytime somebody says, "Oh man, that was a really great revelation, Lisa." That was the Holy Spirit because Lisa ain't got anything to be special about except that she's a child of God. You're a child of God. Hallelujah. That's worthy. And see, that's when you take it to the Lord and give him the glory. Amen. So, and meekness, now meekness is gentleness. But I I did a teaching on meekness um uh not too long ago at that Bible study I was talking about earlier. Meekness, it is gentleness, but the way that works is it stops hatred. It stops anger. It stops wrath. That's what meekness does. That's what you're doing when you walk in that calmness. So somebody's raging at you and you just stop and say, "The Lord bless you or Jesus loves you." And you do that in that calming voice, you stop anger. You stop wrath in its tracks and it it cannot go any further. So here to walk in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, you're walking appropriately with modesty, humbleness, that gentleness, longsuffering. Oh, interesting. H where are you, Lord? What are you doing, Lord? You see, you're anticip I I walk in faith like I had hurt my knee several weeks ago and was in a chair in a wheelchair for a couple days there. uh a a chair for two weeks and a wheelchair for a few more days. After that though, I started getting up and I was declaring Jesus as Lord over my knee. Last night, one of the things I dealt with was the pain in my knee. Where are you, Lord? You see, this is when you have to be long-suffering. You You've got to just deal with it. And you say, "You know what, Lord? I'm going to cast this to you. I declared Jesus as Lord over this knee again." But that's how you walk in faith because you're putting God first. And whatever the situation is, this is one of the ways to walk in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. For me to be a teacher and for me to be in here, I have to walk like this. But you know what? It's not just that I have to. It's that I want to because I have a relationship with Jesus. I have a relationship with the Holy Spirit and I hear his voice and boy has he. You asked me 30 years ago. If I would be doing this today, I would have said no way. But yet God. Yeah. This is what he does. And then forbearing putting up with one another in love. Oh my goodness. This is a hard one. You see, we're in a a a time period where we think we have all the answers and so we see somebody who is dealing with the situation and we want to give them the answers. We want to force the answers on them and we want to shake them up and tell them this is how you do it. And then you want to you really get angry and you can get, you know, look at um the videos of people wearing the MAGA hats and those that don't like it. You're wrong. Take that off and see they're trying to force that on you. Well, one, we're not rapist. And yes, I use that word because that means force and forcing something on somebody else. No, we're to put up with love. Look at this. He's telling you, put up with one another in love. How do you do that? One, pray for them. Two, forgive them. Because Jesus is all about forgiveness. And if you're going to walk with Jesus, you need to walk in forgiveness. So that's how we start this foundational approach to walking in the gifts of the spirit. We are walking appropriately. We need to be doing that. And two, humbleness, uh modesty, meekness, longsuffering, forebearing, and uh in love. See, that's another thing is if you really love somebody, yes, you're going to correct them, but you're going to correct them through love. So, you're going to tell them the truth. Yeah. Uh you you can become a believer in Christ. That doesn't mean everything is going to be hunky dory or all roses. No, we're going to be still dealing with pain and suffering and death just like the rest of the world does. The difference is is I give God the glory because he's the creator and he's the one who set everything in order. He's the one who established all of this. You see, my relationship stands towards God. And so, every time I teach, I'm teaching you out of love. One, so that we can come unified in that love to walk in these gifts because they are to edify the church. We're going to get to more scripture on that. That's what all this is about. And look he goes on further to say endeavoring to keep the unity oneness of the spirit in the bond of peace prosperity to keep the unity. So each and every one of us should be teaching or presenting an example of the word of God as a testimony for the unity of the Holy Spirit. And see that's how we start to engage in walking in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We are to the goal, the unity of the spirit. And which means you can't tell the difference between me and another teacher if we're in unity of the scriptures to the spirit. See, the moment you start listening to divisive teaching, this pastor or this teacher teaches yes, you can lose your salvation, but this pastor, this teacher says no, you can't. or this pastor or this teacher teaches that the rapture will happen after we go through hell on earth whereas another teacher or pastor will teach that no it's before then others teach it's the mid we're not in unity right now but here's the thing and I'm sure others who teach opposite of me are going to feel the same way I feel I'm right but see this is where it comes down to one did you ask God to give you the answer or did you just go and study it and try to interpret it on your own. You see, when I try to read the scripture, I try to read it where I'm looking at it and saying, "Okay, Holy Spirit, you're going to have to show me this one because I don't understand it." And he will do that. So, how do you uh move into that field where, oh, I don't want to trash this pastor or this teacher for what they're teaching. No, instead, what I do is I do two things. I pray. I pray for them. I pray for myself. So I start with prayer and second I go to the word and I ask the Holy Spirit what is it? Am I missing? Is it something wrong with me? You see there comes in the humbleness, the loneliness, the meekness because I'm trying to figure out are they right and am I wrong? And if I see and the Holy Spirit is teaching me to stand strong in what I'm reading and I've got it and he shows me through dreams because I have dreams. I have vivid dreams that tell me things as well. If I see all this coming together, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm believing what I'm teaching. And I believe you can't lose your salvation. Jesus says, and I I did a teaching on this. You can go check out that teaching. And I believe we're going to have a pre uh a rapture that happens before the tribulation. Why? because I've studied the word and I asked the Lord to explain it to me his way and I've taught on that. You can go check out those other teachings. But the point here is that I'm not here to trash anybody and what they believe and what that's what they believe at this time. Now, there's things I taught early on in this ministry that I've changed since because the Holy Spirit has spoken to me. That it means I'm maturing more in the Lord. And maybe that teacher, preacher will eventually get there as well and get more mature. And you'll see there's pastors that make radical changes because the Lord has worked on them. But that's because of prayer and prayer through love because I love them. Now granted, I believe that pastor or teacher who is teaching these things is still saved. They're not going to hell. And if now if they're misleading people and people walk away as a result, that consequence is going to be on you. And this is why I take teaching very seriously. I do not want to mislead anyone. So in all of my teachings, every single one of them, I always point to the scriptures. Always. And then I think it through as logically as I can. and back it up with multiple scriptures. That's what teaching is about. Again, it's not about what I believe or what I consider. I'm I'm trying to teach what the Holy Spirit is teaching me. But I'm trying to do it in love to the edification and the unification of the church under one spirit. That's the whole goal here. And I'm hoping other teachers, pastors, preachers, evangelists will catch on to this. Amen. Uh now in verse four, there's one body and one spirit even as you are called in one hope of your calling. You see, we anticipate the prophecies of the Bible to come true. We anticipate that the Lord is speaking the truth. Now that means there is one spirit. There is one son of God. There is one God and we all work under that one God. Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through me." So we teach when you operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, each of you will be operating under that one spirit. That's it. There is no other way around. There's no Muhammad. There is no um anything else. There's no um Harry Krishna there. There's no other gods. There is only one God. And Jesus is that son. And that son of God, Jesus, is who we work in unity with through his word because he spoke the word. And then he gave us the comforter, the Holy Spirit, who he's the one that convicts us. He's we hear him inside and you know it. You know, and I've taught on that many times as well. Uh verse five, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. Verse six, one God and father of all who is above all and through all and in you all. But every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. This is all a gift by the way. Every salvation is a gift. You can't work for salvation. You cannot earn it. Jesus says I give this to you. And it's interesting because it's how he gives it to you as well. So see going back to the idea of whether one can lose their salvation or not. Think of it like this. When God gives you this gift, and it is so valuable, do you think he's going to let you play with it? You're a toddler to him. You're a newborn is what you are, a newborn baby Christian. And when you're that young, that helmet of salvation is put on your head and it's strapped securely where you can't take it off. No matter how much you want, Jesus will follow you, follow you all the way to even the depths of hell to get you because he's not going to lose one. and sharing a testimony of like my son-in-law. He uh he had it rough, but he he married my daughter. He was in our household and he lived with us and he was living a righteous young man. He's a believer in Christ. He's called on the name of the Lord Jesus. And then he went to the other side to the dark side, if you will, but he he got over there even cursing God. Did he lose his salvation? Right now he's back in the graces of God because he's finally realizing, oh, but people go back and forth all the time. Does that mean that they lost their salvation? Jesus loves you so much. He will not let you fiddle with that salvation helmet is securely on you. He will work on your heart. He's going to try to bring you back because he wants you to be fruitful and multiply. You're not being fruitful and you're not multiplying when you're living in sin. There's a difference there. Let's continue on in verse eight. Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. So this is all again a gift, a gift of teaching. We're going to get into the different callings here, but these gifts, it's a gift that you desire. I I desire teaching the word. I desire looking up the scripture. I desire finding the knowledge and the revelation. This is my heart's desire, and I love it because I want to do this. And the Lord answers that and allows me to do it. So now he that So verse 9, now that he ascended, he went up, what is it that but that he also descended, he went down first into the lower parts of the earth. And he that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all things. Now it's interesting what he's talking about here is Jesus entered his own creation. So Jesus came from the heavens as a spirit. He was with God in the beginning. John 1:1, in the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. So Jesus was a spirit at that time. Well, Jesus entered this world, his own creation, and became a man and then was crucified, which then he went down to the depths of paradise to get all those people out of there. And three days later, he rose from the grave, including all these other people. And when he came out, he ascended up. Then he and and he said, "I have to go to my father." So he goes to his father to go do whatever he needs to accomplish. Then he says, "I will send you a power, a comforter, the Holy Spirit." And then he tells us, "You will do things even greater than me." This is Jesus telling us what you're going to do under the gifts of the Holy Spirit. So he gives us these gifts because we are co-join hes with him. He has this calling. He's the son of God. And he says, I want you to when he said to Mary Magdalene on the way up when he was ascending up, he says, I go to my father, your father, my God, your God. Because see, he's now a man in a body who then says God is his God, his father, just like we do. So we become joint hes. So his power and authority we have because he gave it to us as a gift. We have the authority in the name of Jesus and we have the gift of the Holy Spirit who moves when he wants to. But the moment we take our relationship to this level where we're walking in humbleness, loneliness, meekness, and we are submitting ourselves to be in righteousness with God, then the Holy Spirit has opportunities and you will find yourself in a place where you are whether it's evangelizing, teaching, prophesying, and we're going to see those here in just a minute. Whatever it is that you're in, whatever your calling is, whether it's smiling to people, blessing them, laying hands and healing them, whatever it may be, you are, the Holy Spirit is actually saying to the world, look at my servant. Look who this is. She or he is doing what I've asked him to do in this foundation which Paul has established for us. Amen. So here's the callings um that Paul uh lists in verse 11. And he gave some apostles which an apostle is an ambassador and some prophets. The prophet is someone who foretells or is an inspired speaker and some evangelist that's a preacher. That's more like a motivational type of preaching. Evangelism is pretty cool. Sometimes I get very excited and I run off in that direction. Anyways, I try to keep it to teaching while I'm here and I try not to preach. I'm trying to teach because preaching, you saw what preaching is. Um, it's a uh or yeah, it's an evangelist as a preacher. And then some are pastors, which are shepherds. They they shepherd their church. They are going to be there one-on-one with you. They're going to be in that calling. Um, let me go over more of these here in just a minute. And then teachers, which are the instructors. So, there's an apostles. Apostles are ambassadors. They they go around the world representing Christ, maybe even establishing churches. That's what Paul and Peter did. Then you had the prophets. They're the ones there. It's also an inspired speaker, but they're foretelling and they're using the word of God to see future prophecy and the Lord is revealing it to them. Because even if they're given a vision of some sort, it has to line up with the word of God because that's how you have to measure it. Do you know it's from God or is it from some other source? may be someplace biased on the inside. You want to say, "Oh, that's so this all this hell is going to happen to you or you're going to be so prosperous with this." But if you're doing it through the word of God and the word of God is showing you the scripture that goes with what you're feeling or have seen in your mind's eye with the Lord, then that's prophecy. That's what you're doing. Evangelist is the preacher. Uh that's the one that's going around just motivating people. You're you get excited. You take a something out of the Bible and it's a golden nugget and that you you just elaborate on that golden nugget the entire time you are preaching which is sometimes so good and it really encourages people that that's a neat calling to be an evangelist. And then of course talking you know another thing evangelists do is when you're out in the world you just talk to hey do you believe in Jesus? He's the son of God. Don't you know he loves you? And you just blurt it out because you're an evangelist. That's what evangelists do. Then you have the pastors, a shepherd. Again, as I was saying earlier, this is um an individual who can take the whole church. He sits down with his church. He can go to the hospital for those individual. He knows every individual in his church and he is ministering to them at a shepherd's level, keeping them in track as a group. And typically churches should be a little smaller so a pastor can do that. Now, there are these other churches that have built up uh people that can be like assistant pastors and you've got your ministry where at least a a pastor type person with that calling is able to minister to people whether in the hospital, in their home or in the sanctuary and praying over them. That's part of pastoral ship. And then the teacher, which is what I'm called, that's what I do as I'm a teacher. I instruct I'm instructing you how to walk in the gifts of the spirit or laying down a foundation for you. Again, I point to the scripture and I point to you and your relationship with the Holy Spirit. You need to go talk to him and see if this is where you should be and what you're doing. Maybe he wants you to do something a little different. But he he always I think I like this. This is this is what I believe is that the Holy Spirit knows where your heart is. If you want to be in children's ministry because you love children, Holy Spir spirit is going to open the door for you to have that teaching or evangelizing to the children and you're going to do that through joy. See, when you love doing it and that, by the way, the Holy Spirit will transform you to do that because I was not a good speaker and never have been. But the Holy Spirit makes a way so that the desire and the joy of your heart comes out while you're doing whatever your vocation you're calling it. Amen. Now look at what he says though. This is the goal of it. Verse 12. For the perfecting of the saints, complete furnishing of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying or the structure of the body of Christ. This is to build the body of Christ to one unity. This is why we have to be very careful what teachers we're listening to. This is why we need to keep praying for them. This is why we have to watch the preachers that we're listening to because if they're going against the word of God or they're not getting a concept, we need to pray so that the Holy Spirit can work through them. And the more we do that, the more unified we become. But we're definitely not unified yet till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature or maturity of the fullness of Christ. We're definitely not mature Christians. Now, we will reach perfection the moment we shed this body and we enter into his presence. We will definitely enter into perfection at that time. But we should be trying to achieve that as a body, not just an individual, but as a body. And even if we disagree with something somebody is saying, we need to be praying for them and loving them and hoping and then praying for ourselves because it could be we're misunderstanding something too and they have and and that's another thing uh in a teaching maybe one part is really good, one part is not. You have the right as a listener of that to say, "Oh, I'm going to accept that part and I'm going to reject that part and I'm going to pray for me and I'm going to pray for them." That way there's clarity and the Holy Spirit can work with you. And I'm hoping that these teachers and preachers can also start doing the same thing. That's coming into the unification of the body at that point. that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slate of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie and wait to see. See, there are people that are deceiving intently and then accidentally. Part of it is lack of knowledge and God doesn't like the fact that we can be dumb. But at the same time, he gave us the Holy Spirit to teach us how to rise up in that knowledge and to go to the word. You see, here's another thing Paul says is we know in part and we see in part. I know a part and I see a part in the scriptures. Someone else might see another part that just gives us a bigger picture. And if he or she shares their part, I share my part, you have a bigger part because now it becomes your part plus the other two parts and so on and so forth. That's the unifying of the saints and building of the church to this goal. But speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ. See now you can't do anything without love. 1 Corinthians 13 says it's like a clanging symbol. I I don't want to trash a pastor. I don't want to speak curses against them because, oh, that was horrible. No, I want to pray for them again. Pray for me because maybe I'm miss some missing something. And then I'm just asking the Lord. That's an act of love. That's how you show love because we're not here. We already got the devil. Don't do the devil's job for him. Amen. Amen. from whom the whole body fitly joined together, compacted by that which every joint supply according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body into the edifying structure of itself in love. Love is the mortar, the foundation that pulls it all together. And right now we know Matthew 24 prophesied that love will grow cold. And we're in that season. So, here is a time where we need to humble ourselves because if you're in with Jesus, you're loving. You're in love. You're acting and walking in love. You see, Jesus loved us so much. He died for us. Now, I can't do that, but he did it already. And so, what I can do is just remember that he loves everybody else the same way he loves me. And that gives me that foundation to lead to walking in the gifts of the spirit in my case teaching. Let's close in a word of prayer and let's uh let the Holy Spirit talk to you about this. I encourage you to go back and read the rest of this chapter and there's many other areas that he talks about the gifts of the spirit. Get into the scripture. Let the Holy Spirit talk to you. Find out your vocation. What is your joy? And let the Holy Spirit transform you. Renew your mind as Romans 12:1 tells us. And remember, there's no more condemnation. Jesus loves you. Show the world around us that love. Amen. Father God, we lift you up and we bless you and we honor you. We thank you for your word and we thank you. We pray and ask for the spirit of love to manifest within us that are believers so that the world will see what love what true love looks like. I pray that we express that true love. I pray that the that your word is going out and that uh we are building the body of Christ into one big structure that operates in love under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and in the power of the gifts that minister to the church so that we are not being de uh deceived or tossed about to and fro from false doctrine. But I pray that your hedge of protection and is is around us and that each teacher, each evangelist, each pastor, each calling, every vocation out there is walking in the anointing of your Holy Spirit with love. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next teaching. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

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

CHRIST IS PREACHED The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that the preaching of Christ, whether motivated by love or by contention, still serves to advance the gospel. By examining Paul’s letter to the Philippians alongside Jesus’ words in Matthew, the lesson encourages believers, teachers, and ministers to prioritize preaching with love while recognizing that God can still work through imperfect motives. Ultimately, the aim is to strengthen faith, inspire boldness, and emphasize that Christ is magnified both in life and in death. CHRIST IS PREACHED Minister Lisa Kane August 27, 2025 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that the preaching of Christ, whether motivated by love or by contention, still serves to advance the gospel. By examining Paul’s letter to the Philippians alongside Jesus’ words in Matthew, the lesson encourages believers, teachers, and ministers to prioritize preaching with love while recognizing that God can still work through imperfect motives. Ultimately, the aim is to strengthen faith, inspire boldness, and emphasize that Christ is magnified both in life and in death. Synopsis: In Christ is Preached, Lisa Kane explores Paul’s message to the Philippians, highlighting how his imprisonment not only spread the gospel to new places like the palace but also emboldened others to preach with greater confidence. Paul acknowledges that some preach Christ with motives of envy and strife, while others do so out of love. Yet, he rejoices regardless, affirming that the central truth remains—Christ is being preached. The teaching then bridges Paul’s perspective with Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:17-20, reminding listeners that Christ came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it. Ministers are urged to honor God’s commandments in their preaching, as those who teach and live by them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. At the same time, Paul’s reassurance shows that even those who preach imperfectly are still within God’s plan. Drawing from both Old and New Testament commandments rooted in love (Deuteronomy 13:3, John 13:34-35), the message concludes that while God can use both fear-driven and love-driven preaching, it is far better to teach, preach, and evangelize with love. Love magnifies Christ, builds up the body of believers, and secures a greater reward in the kingdom of heaven. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: There are some good points Paul makes to the Philippians in chapter 2 that I want to explore in this Bible Study. Objective: The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that the preaching of Christ, whether motivated by love or by contention, still serves to advance the gospel. By examining Paul’s letter to the Philippians alongside Jesus’ words in Matthew, the lesson encourages believers, teachers, and ministers to prioritize preaching with love while recognizing that God can still work through imperfect motives. Ultimately, the aim is to strengthen faith, inspire boldness, and emphasize that Christ is magnified both in life and in death. Philippians 1:12-14 KJV 12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; 13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; 14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. First off, it looks like the Philippians were asking Paul about the bonds that he was in, and he answered them by telling them that they’re turning out to be more for the gospel. That those bonds he is in are manifesting the gospel in places, such as the palace and elsewhere. And that it had a side-effect of causing people to speak with more confidence and boldness without fear. Then he goes on to explain that there are more ways to preach the gospel because of this. Philippians 1:15-18 KJV 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. 18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Paul explains the motives behind some of these preachers. Some have the motive of envy and strife but others with good will. He explains that the ones preaching with contention are attempting to poor out more affliction, make you feel more guilty in hopes that will cause you to humble yourself before the Lord. But there are those who preach with love defending the gospel as it is as Paul does. Then Paul makes the mind-blowing statement that whether they preach in pretense or in truth, that Christ is preached, and that causes him to rejoice. I always wondered about this because I see people get saved fully knowing the teaching they heard was not out of love. And even in my own life, I realized that I would rather teach out of love than to bring someone to the Lord through fear. Philippians 1:19-22 KJV 19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. And here Paul tells us that yes, the Spirit of Christ is working here in salvation through prayer. He brings this back to his suffering and rejoices because people are being saved and Christ is magnified through his body in life and eventually through death. Then he explains that living is done through being in Christ and that dying is gaining Christ. He’s not ashamed of the gospel but stands with all boldness…and he does eventually die for Christ because of this boldness. Let’s look at this through Jesus in Matthew: Matthew 5:17-20 KJV 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. First, Jesus clearly states that He didn’t come to destroy the law but to fulfill it. This is a good reminder that to each of us, we don’t know the Word of God or the law in it’s fullness, as the scribes and Pharisees claimed to know. This missed the Messiah’s first coming. And Jesus boldly and confidently states that every prophecy will be fulfilled. Then He makes this bold statement in verse 19: 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. When you are behind the pulpit as an evangelist, pastor, teacher etc, if you teach your followers to break the least of the commandments, then you are called least in the kingdom of heaven. Wait – what? You’re still in the kingdom of heaven? That’s right. Paul was confirming what Jesus demonstrated and stated in Matthew 5. But Jesus goes on to say that those that follow the commandments and teach, preach, evangelize them, then you shall be great in the kingdom of heaven. It’s great to see that Christ is still preached but as I speak to evangelists, preachers, pastors, teachers etc, know that when you preach by keeping His commandments, your status will be greater in the kingdom of heaven then those who preach with fear. What are the commandments? Deuteronomy 13:3 KJV 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. John 13:34-35 KJV 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. Both the old and new commandments are based in love. Conclusion, preach, evangelize, teach in love for it is the better option for you, and don’t condemn those that preach through fear. 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UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 2 Present a clear, Spirit-led framework for understanding Revelation as a twofold unveiling—earth’s perspective (Rev. 1–3) and heaven’s perspective (Rev. 4–5)—by tracing God’s dispensations, clarifying the timing and symbolism of key passages, and showing how Christ (the Lamb) receives all authority. Prepare listeners to interpret the seven seals (Rev. 6) and to live as the faithful “Philadelphia” church that holds to God’s Word and Christ’s deity. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 2 Pastor Marcos Marrero May 10, 2009 Objective: Present a clear, Spirit-led framework for understanding Revelation as a twofold unveiling—earth’s perspective (Rev. 1–3) and heaven’s perspective (Rev. 4–5)—by tracing God’s dispensations, clarifying the timing and symbolism of key passages, and showing how Christ (the Lamb) receives all authority. Prepare listeners to interpret the seven seals (Rev. 6) and to live as the faithful “Philadelphia” church that holds to God’s Word and Christ’s deity. Synopsis: After an opening prayer for clarity and revelation, the message reviews last week’s premise: Revelation tells the same end-time events from two synchronized angles—what happens on earth and what happens in the unseen realm. This is set within God’s dispensational timeline: innocence, conscience, human government, promise (Abraham), law (Moses), grace (through Jesus), and the coming kingdom (the millennial rest). Rev. 1–3 cover the church age. Two end-time church types are highlighted: “Philadelphia” (keeps the Word; affirms Jesus’ deity; promised protection) and “Laodicea” (self-sufficient, Christ outside the door; will face refining fire). Many misread Rev. 4 linearly as the rapture; instead, the teaching argues Rev. 4–5 shift to the heavenly point of view of the same era, solving timing tensions (e.g., anointing authority passing to Israel in Rev. 7 with the 144,000). In Rev. 4 John is caught up to heaven: the throne radiates “lightnings and thunderings”—symbolic of divine life-giving energy (the Word). The seven Spirits are before the throne. This scene is presented as a view of the eternal Word prior to incarnation. John then sees four living creatures—lion, calf/ox, man, and flying eagle—interpreted as a “dispensational clock”: human governments (lion), law (ox), grace (man), and the kingdom’s lift into immortality (eagle). Rev. 5 searches for a worthy Man to take the sealed scroll; none among Adam’s descendants qualifies—until the Lion of Judah appears as the slain Lamb. This Lamb, bearing perfect spiritual and physical authority (seven eyes and seven horns), receives the scroll—harmonizing with Jesus’ declaration, “All authority…has been given to Me.” Heaven responds: elders, living creatures, angels, and all creation worship the Lamb with sevenfold and fourfold doxologies, affirming His cosmic lordship. The message weaves Psalm 22–24 to show the cross, its provisions, and the victorious ascent: Christ descends, plunders hell, empties paradise, and ascends with a human, resurrected body; the everlasting gates receive the “King of Glory.” Implications for today: unique convergence signals we’re nearing God’s judgments and the kingdom transition—global alignment of nations (e.g., UN), Israel restored as a nation (1948), and a fresh apostolic/charismatic restoration in the church—calling believers to bold, humble, Word-anchored faith. The session closes by previewing next week’s focus on the seven seals (Rev. 6)—how they map onto the church-age mysteries—and by praying for opened ears, understanding hearts, and readiness to walk as kings and priests with Christ. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: [Music] How's everybody doing tonight? Praise God. Huh? Hallelujah. Father, thank you for giving me clarity of thought right now. Allow my spirit to receive what the Holy Spirit uh has for us tonight. And allow me, Father God, in the um uh in the processes of the mind to receive the revelation as revealed by the Holy Spirit. Father God, open my ears to hear, my heart to understand, Father God, and uh allow us, Father God, to partake of the blessing of your word as we try to unveil it now, Father God, in accordance to the spirit of truth that reveals the truth to us in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Now, for those of you who wasn't here last week, we started um uh the process of uh going through the book of Revelation. In the book of revelation, I made this statement that in order for us to understand it, we need to understand one very basic concept and without this we cannot understand it and that is that the revelation is twofold. Uh for example, if if if you're making a movie of events that are taking place simultaneously, we as human cannot see both events at the same time. So the screenplay that's making the movie will play one part first and then somehow they'll let you know that what you're seeing next is a different event that is taking place at the same time. Like Pearl Harbor, there were things going on in Washington. There were things going on in Tokyo. And so in order for you to understand they will put on the bottom whatever time it was that it was going. In order to understand the book of revelation we need to understand that the book of revelation is giving the same account or the same events from two different perspective. And this is not new. You you have first and second chronicles and first and second kings. First and 2 Kings is the same events but from a physical point of view. First and 2 Chronicles give you the same history but from God's point of view. And so we see this, we see it on the book of Job. Job was not aware of heaven. Uh was not aware of what was taking place in heaven. But the book of Job gives us an insight how Satan goes before the throne of God begins to accuse Job. And so what happens is the events that are taking place in the spiritual realm have an effect upon Job's life. All of a sudden his wife I mean his children are gone his house is gone everything is gone. So if we do not come into the understanding that the book of revelation is written in a twofold manner. In other words there are spiritual things that are taking place which that is what causes the physical things to happen. We made this statement when we started last week that the book of revelation the first three chapters chapter 1, two and three after the short introduction that it deals with the church age uh we need to understand that there are what the Bible call dispensations of time. What a dispensation of time is simply the rules that apply to that period of time. For example, Adam and Eve, that was called the dispensation of innocence, only had one rule. And the rule was don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the dispensation of conscience, which is the the one that Adam and Eve lived when they got out of the garden all the way up to Noah's flat, that period of time, uh, 1650 years, um, that period of time was called conscience. And the Bible tells us an insight into what the condition of that time was. Says that the thoughts of every man were evil constantly. Meaning that the conscience of men was so perverted the destruction was eminent. And so then came the dispensation of human governments. Uh God told the sons of u uh Noah to scatter themsel and and repopulate the earth. They say we want to make a name for ourselves. We don't want to be nobody. So they gathered together. Nimrod was their leader. He built a tower and there God came in and confused. He didn't judge them. He judged conscience. He killed everybody except no one, his family. And Adam and Eve, he kicked him out of the garden and said you can never go back into it. But when it came to the human governments, God reserved their judgment for an end time, which we're going to deal with that tonight. Then uh since men could not save himself in his innocence, since man could not save himself by his own conscience and since man could not save himself by the laws that he made, human government, then God introduced a promise. God took a a a man who was a moon worshipper. Abraham, his mother and his father were moon worshippers. They they were from Iraq, the area. Uh uh this is why the Iraq war has such a spiritual connotation because God pulled him out of there and he says I'm going to make a covenant with you. Then God took this man introduced himself to him. The Bible says that Abraham was a friend of God. And then God said to this man, I am going to make a covenant with you. And the covenant that we he made with Abraham, he says, "Out of your seed, all of the nations of the earth will be blessed." This is a statement that God made. Then God took Abraham out, says, "Look at the stars. As many as they are, so shall your descendants be." Then he took him to the sands of the seashore. Says, "As many of the the grains of sand, so shall your descendants be." So that means that the promise of of of God to Abraham was twofold. physical that's what the sand of the seashore is and spiritual that's what the stars are so out of Abraham came two dispensations the first dispensation was the dispensation of law when God took Moses through the burning bush God introduced the law through Moses God took Moses up into heaven brought heaven to the mountains climbed the mountain and 40 days and 49 Moses was revealed the dispensation of law, the dispensation of law. They violated the law. So God decreed 490 years punishment to the nation of Israel. And then Daniel was told at the end of 483 years, Messiah is going to come and he'll be cut off. And so seven years were left to where God is going to deal with the end of time because Daniel says that at that time God is going to put an end to sin, an end to defilement. God is going to cleanse everything. So then when Messiah came and got cut off, God introduced a new dispensation which is the dispensation in which we live. It's called the dispensation of grace. Grace was introduced through a man through the man Jesus Christ. He came in and he uh uh uh by his sacrifice introduces and we're going to see that tonight to the dispensation of grace. So then what we have is God gave a promise that at the end time he's going to deal with the human governments. He's going to deal with Israel and he's going to deal with the church. And out of that he's going to bring redeemed people into the kingdom age which is a thousand years and is what is called the time of rest. So basically then when God introduced himself in gener in revelation chapter one to John he gave him a message to seven specific churches. It was a physical message because John was in the aisle of Pat Mo Patmos which is an island that is off the coast of Greece even today. He gave him h a a message to seven churches. Three or four of those cities where the churches were are still there today and the ruins of the other places are there. And so we came to this is where we finished last week. We came to the conclusion that the church age beginning with the message to the first church back to the messages to the Leo Desan and the Philadelphia church concluded the dispensation of grace. In other words, to the Philadelphia church, God says, "I am going to keep you from the hour of judgment that is coming upon the whole earth to test those." And the reason why is because he said, "You have kept my word and you have not denied my name." There's two type of Christians today. There's a type of Christian that believe that the word of God, the Bible, is the the word of God uncompromised. And they believe that Jesus is deity. They don't believe Jesus was a great prophet or he was all things, but he is divine. He is the son of God, the word of God who became flesh, came into a physical body. Okay? That's what it means not to deny his name. There's a lot of Christianity today that says no that thing about being born of a virgin does that you know that doesn't exist. We have to realize the fact and the fact is that if Jesus is not born of of God himself of the Holy Spirit overshadowing Mary then the whole of Christianity is a farce because we're still in our sins. If Jesus was born out of a man, Joseph, then the sin of Adam was passed on to the body of Jesus. Jesus had to be born of God. God has to come in into the womb of Mary and conceive. And and and we see that in Hebrews and we see that in one of Psalm where it says, "Sacrifice and offerings you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me." Now Jesus told John the physical revelation and he says there are going to be two churches at the end of the time. One is the Philadelphia church. The one that keeps my word, the one that does not deny my name. You are going to go through an open door. Says I open I have the keys of David. I open a door that no man can shut and I close a door that that that no man can open. And that church, the Philadelphia church, the one the one that believes in the deity of Jesus and believes in the truth of the word of God, you're going to be taken out when the judgment starts. He says, "But the Leoa church is the only of the seven churches where Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Jesus is on the outside. Is the only church that does not have Jesus on the inside. Why? Because they say, "I have need or nothing. I am rich." This is what religion has become today. They have a form of godliness. They quote the word and all of the things. But when it comes to getting things done, they trust on man's ability to do things. Okay. Now, we're going to start, if you have the book, we're going to start in in um in page number nine. And we see there uh what we concluded last week in revelation 3:17 and 18 where the leo deaya church says because you say I am rich I have become wealthy and I have need of nothing and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. And then God says to this church, I counsel you to buy from me gold. Gold always symbolizes salvation. buy from me gold that is refined in the fire. Meaning that the only way that this church can be saved now is through the refining fire. He says that you may be rich and that white garments that you may be closed that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with eyes that you may see. So then if you keeping track of things, Revelation chapter 1 to3 deals with the church age from the time of Jesus to the time of the end of the church when the church gets taken away and the church has to go through what is called the the wrath of God, the judgments of God. Now we come to chapter four and this is where if you follow prophecies this is where everything gets tangled up because most people think like we think human linearally. So after chapter three of course comes chapter 4 and so chapter 4 says uh uh you know there's a door in heaven open and boom they say this is the rapture. But here's the problem. If you have the rapture take place on Revelation chapter 4 verse one and the church is removed, the church has the anointing and remember the anointing goes to the entity that God blesses like he blessed Adam. He says, "I give you dominion." And then when Adam came on the other side, that dominion was passed to Enoch and from Enoch to to Noah. And then then that authority was given to Abraham. And then after that was given to Moses and to the children of Israel. And then on the day of Pentecost, that anointing was given to the church. When the church gets taken out, the true church, because the other one don't have God inside of them. When the church gets taken out, that anointing or authority has to be given to somebody else. Who could it be? Well, Israel, because they got to have seven years when God is going to deal with them. And we see this in where? Revelation chapter 7. In Revelation chapter 7, we see the two witnesses anointing 144,000 12,000 of each tribe of Israel are offered as an offering to God. These young men who have never defiled themselves with women, never been married or anything, these young men are offered to God and that is when the anointing is restored back to Israel. But this does not happen until chapter 7. So if the rapture takes place in chapter 4 and then you got chapter five and chapter 6, then where was the authority? You see, this is why it doesn't make sense. This is why you hear some people saying that well the rapture takes place at the beginning of the tribulation and some people say no it takes place in the middle. Why? Because the middle is they believe when you get to chapter 7. The way that we solve that problem is through the twofold problem. Chapter 4 as I'm going to teach you right now does not follow chapter three. Is now God going to show us the same events from chapter 1, 2, and 3, but he's going to show it to us what is taking place in the spirit? If you see that, everything will make sense. Now, watch this. Revelation chapter 4. This is where we change gears now. And so John Wright says, "After these things I look, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking to me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this." Immediately I was in the spirit, and behold, a throne set where? In heaven. And there was one who sat on the throne. Now for comparisons, because this is what we need to do to understand, you need to compare Revelation chapter 1 to Revelation chapter 4. When Jesus reveals himself to John in Revelation chapter 1, what does John say? I was in the aisle of Pathmouth, a physical place. He says, "I saw he had hair, he had eyes, he had feet, he had a a golden thing on his chest, and he walked among the candles which represents the church." That was a physical revelation. That tells us that the seven churches, the letters to the seven churches were speaking about the church age. The seven churches, the seven is a number of completion. the meaning from the beginning that the church was born on the day of Pentecost to the day that it was gone that was represented by the seven letter. But now look at over here the difference. First he says that and I highlighted for you there that a door was standing open where in heaven see heaven and earth are two different things. The alopathmas is in Greece here on the earth. All of a sudden he's taken out to heaven. Okay. And then when he sees heaven what does the boy says to him? Come up here. Now, if somebody says come down, that's bad. We know hell is somewhere down there, right? But we always know heaven is up. So, if they say come up here, that's good. So, he's going up to heaven. And then he says, "I was in the spirit or you could say in the spirit realm." And then he saw the throne in heaven and he saw somebody there. So basically the revelation now is going to shift. John is going to be taken out of our present time uh uh our our our time and space in which we live in on the physical. He is taken out of it. That's what heaven is. In heaven there's no time. Okay? The time works different over there. So he's taken into the spiritual realm and now he's going to be shown a revelation. Now we need to interpret what the revelation is. So we move on reading and then it tells us that he gets up in there and that um he he gets to see certain things. everything I've been speaking it I I got it written there as to how um the u when the church was born the anointing was taken from Israel as in Luke 20:13 the vineyard was given to others and now that will be restored back to them but now he sees in Revelation 4:5 He sees, it says, "And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices, and there were seven lamps of fire that were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God." Now, John gets taken up to heaven. He sees the throne in heaven. He sees someone sitting on the throne, like God sitting on the throne. And now he sees out of the throne lightning and flashing and thundering. Now remember we are in the spiritual realm now. And what did we learn from from uh uh learning about the supernatural? We learned that things are symbols which shows us different things. Now how many of you here know that there are no thunder storms in heaven? This is a spiritual realm. There's no lightning. There's no thundering. So when John is describing what he's seeing, he's trying to explain something that is in the spiritual realm with physical uh words. So what he is seeing, he is seeing because this is what thunderstorms are. He is seeing a tremendous amount of energy being released from the throne. If you were into the spiritual realm, see the throne of God is the center of everything. Everything is held uh is held by God. I got the scripture right right before you get there. Uh you can see it where where it says that everything Acts 17:28 for in him we live and move and have our existence. The word of God sustains everything. So when you go into the throne of heaven, the very first thing that you will see is the energy that comes out of the throne of God where God is sitting and that energy sustains and holds everything together. Everything all the movements of the entire universe are controlled by this energy that flows from there. Now in Revelation chapter 1, we saw this energy inside of a physical body. We saw that Jesus had his feet were like like bronze when it's being melted. It it glow like like bronze in the fire. We saw that his hair was white like pure light. Why? Because energy inside of it was shooting out. We saw like a huge giant sword that came out of his mouth and that is the word of God. The energy of the word of God. If you go to Hebrews 4:12 where we're giving a description of the word of God, he says, "For the word of God is powerful and and and is able to divide us under is living and powerful." He said the word of God is living and powerful. When when he says the word of God is living, the word is sa soy when we get life. But sa means like a sue. All life comes from God. That's what that word means. The word of God is alive. That's what it means. And the word for powerful is not duno dunamos which where we get dynamite which is where most of the words for power is. And it's not exosa which is the word that's translated power. That means authority. When he said I give you authority over all the power of the enemy. Exosea over dunamis. We have authority over the power of the enemy. But this word that is used there to describe the word of God is the word eneria means energy. So you need to understand it. The word of God is lifegiving energy. The word of God come from the throne of God and as he radiates out fills everything with life. It's life. Everything that the word of God touches becomes alive, becomes healed, becomes whole, becomes complete. And so we have to ask ourself a question. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God." You read a couple of verses down and it says, "And the word of God was a light that lighter all men." Meaning the energy that fills everybody with life. And then in John 1:14 says, "And the word became flesh." Which is what we see in in Revelation 1 when Jesus is described as full of energy. But hey, listen. When we get to Revelation chapter 4 to the revelation that is in heaven, we don't see Jesus. See, listen, because I don't want you to misquote me. The word of God is eternal, but the body of Jesus had a beginning. This is a very big distinction that you have to understand. Everybody say, "Oh, Jesus is forever." Yes, the word of God, the salvation of God is from the beginning. But the body of Jesus had a beginning because he's like us. We all had a beginning even though we're eternal. We're going to live forever, but we did not begin until the spirit of God made us and form us in our mother's wombs. You see? So, the word of God is eternal. It's always been around. But when God needed a man, he formed a body. He got Mary's consent. He told Mary and she said, "Be with with you as as you wish." She allowed her body to be used by the Holy Spirit. And so the body of Jesus was a a a form in her womb. And when he was born, that was the beginning of the physical body. But the person that was living in the physical body, the word of God is eternal. Because from the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word is God. But the reason why I'm bringing this point is because in Revelation chapter 4, we don't see Jesus. We think God. He says there's one who was sitting on the throne and then he says that we see lightning and flashing and thundering and then we see the seven spirits of God. So we see the trinity but the word is not in a body yet. So what does that tell you? The revelation chapter 4 is giving us a revelation of before the word became flesh. This is very important because if you begin with the church age when Jesus came and says I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it and now we're going to be showing the spiritual side of it then God has to take us to a beginning place and in the spiritual realm there's no beginning because God is eternal. So we're given a glimpse of the throne and in the throne we see the sevenfold spirit of God. We see one who was sitting on the throne and out of the throne was a tremendous amount of energy being released. I'll make the point and I'm going to prove it right now that what you're seeing in Revelation chapter 4 is the word of God before he became incarnate. The word of God before he became incarnate. Now, let's read on and you'll see that uh that this is what it says. And by the way, all of the things that I'm saying is is written here. So if you have the book, you can go back in it. Then now in in in in Revelation chapter one, after Jesus was revealed and he described that he has feet and and waste and and everything, then the message was given. The message was a chronology, seven churches. So you could follow a timeline. Now the same thing is going to happen here after we see God on the throne. One who sat on the throne the energy that was being released from the throne which is the word of God and then we see the sevenfold spirit. Now God is going to give us a timeline. But like you know nowadays I I don't know how kids do it. Do do they still teach kids how to read a clock? Because on the digital age that we live in you don't need to learn to tell time. Do you guys remember when you were a kid you had to learn how to tell time? You know those of us who were old kids know how to do that now. They just look at the digital thing and tells you what the time is. Here we also have to learn how to decipher this clock. And so I call this a dispensational clock. And this is um uh Revelation 4 6 and 7. This is the very first thing now that is revealed as John gets to heaven. It says before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. Now notice that front deals with the future and back deals with the past and then it describes these four living creatures. The first living creature was like a lion. The second living creature was like a calf. The third living creature had a face like a man. And the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. Now if you look down there on the page 12, notice that I have the innocence, conscience, human government, promise, law, grace, kingdom, age. These four creatures represent four dispensations of time. and and and and we can prove that and and and I go into great detail uh dealing if you look at Psalm 22, Psalm 23 and Psalm 24. Psalm 22 for those of you that that may not know deals with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. There were three spiritual things going on on the cross when Jesus was crucified. Jesus, David wrote this, by the way, a thousand years before it happened. Psalm 22, he says, "I am hanging on the cross. I can count all my bones." He says his mouth is dried up. Everything that happened on the cross with great detail, David chose it. And then he says that he was surrounded by lions that were tearing at his skin. Now, we know when Jesus was crucified, there were no lions there, were they? And then he says that the bulls, strong bulls of Bashan were goring him as he was in the cross. Now there were no no bulls in there. And this is farther down in in the book as you read. And then he says there were dogs. Gentiles always called were called dogs by the Jews. Everybody who wasn't a Jew, they call them dogs. That was a nickname for the Gentiles. So what Jesus did on the cross, he was defeating the the spirit of the lion. What is the lion? The king of the jungle or this is the kingdoms of the earth or the human governments. The ox which is a beast of burden represents the law which nobody could could carry. It was a load that it was too heavy that broke everybody. and the dispensation of a man was the time of grace that needed to be unleashed. And the flying eagle, that's when we're set free from the bounds of gravity and death and we're taken into the kingdom age, which is a time of immortality. So as you can see the very first thing that John sees when he gets to heaven he says four dispensations form like a clock. Why like a clock? Because first came the human government. Remember after the flood Noah's son began to reproduce and God gave him a command to scatter himself over the face of the whole earth. Nimrod led a rebellion against God. All of the governments of the world at that time came together and they built a tower to what? To reach to heaven. And what happened? God scattered them. They were never judged. So that is the the lion. There the king of the jungle. The human represents the human government. Then the next one was the ox. This is the beast of burden. That's the law. The law is like a a a yoke that goes on the neck that drags you down and breaks you. Why? because nobody could keep the law. And so there's the second beast, the second dispensation. Now, you see, God is bringing it to where he's going to deal with the human governments. God is going to deal with the ox. But the way that we know that this is talking about the time of Jesus is because in Revelation chapter 5 verse one, they're looking for a man, whether it's in heaven, whether it's in earth, or under the earth, who is able to go to the hand of the one who sat on the throne and open the seals in it. No man was found worthy. Now, what does that mean? that Adam could not produce out of his own seed a man who wasn't contaminated. See, think of it as a as some kind of a disease, you know, that that is total. And the person gets it and then every child he has to whatever generation will be contaminated with that. That's what sin is to God. When Adam sinned, every seed, every person that descended from Adam was contaminated. The blood God said the life is in the blood. The blood was contaminated. So nobody descendant of Adam could go up because you see God set up a time when the dispensation of men came. Just like when it came the dispensation of law, God chose Moses. Just like when God needed to introduce the promise, he chose Abraham. And when he needed to introduce the destruction, he chose Noah. Here comes the dispensation of man. The grace of God is going to be revealed to man. And it's going to reveal through a man. And that man cannot be found anywhere. It's not in hell. It's not on earth. It's not in heaven. So John begins to weep. He cries. I can't believe it. Here's heaven and we can't come to it. We can't come to Why? Because there's no man. Now we know that the law says sacrifice and offerings you you you did not desire but a body you prepared for me. You see before the foundations of the world God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit with all of the angelic host were sitting on the table and were planning the creation. And God Moses said if we create men like us and give him freedom, they have a a choice and they can reject us. And if they reject us, then they will become the opposite of what we are. God is good, so everything will be evil. That's what Satan is. Satan is the opposite of everything that God is. And so the word of God said in the councils of the heaven, if man fails, I will redeem them. Hallelujah. See, that's the word of God. That's the promise of God. And God said to the word, "Your word is good enough for me." And boom, he created Adam naked and and and with everything that he was lacking. But he said if he needs to be redeemed, the word will redeem it. So when the time came to redeem, no man could be found. But the word of God said, "You prepare a body for me and I'll redeem man." And so in Revelation chapter 5, as you read on, John is weeping and crying and an angel thugs him and say, "Hey, don't cry. Look, the lion of the tribe of Judah has triumphed." White lion. Because the lion represents the king of the jungle. He's king of kings and lord of lords. That's how the angels of heaven see the word of God because he is the king. He's God. But John looks and instead of seeing a lion, he says a lamb as they have been slain. Because you see that is our humanity. We cannot gaze into the holiness of God except through the lamb of God. And this lamb has seven horns and seven eyes. Since this is spiritual vision, we have to interpret what the signs mean. We know that seven is a number of completion. And we know that eyes represent spiritual knowledge or spiritual wisdom. And we know that horns mean physical strength. So when he sees a lamb that has seven horns and seven eyes, he's seeing a person, a man that has become totally and completely like God, perfect spiritual power and perfect physical power. Now, how do I know that chapter 4 and chapter five belong before the crucifixion and not after? Because of Matthew, before Jesus goes up into heaven, he says, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." That's exactly what John sees in Revelation chapter 5. A lamb that has seven horns and seven eyes. All spiritual authority and all physical authority. Now, when did this happen? This happened 2,000 years ago. This is not in the future. You see, if you say that Revelation 4 is in the future and Revelation chapter fives are in the future, then Jesus hasn't received his power yet. See this? If if if if the lamb hasn't been given all authority and all power yet because revelation five is in the future then Matthew lie because Matthew said that all authority uh I mean John you know Matthew said that Jesus said all authority and all power has been given to me and John says that thou was placed upon the lamb. Now this is so very important to us to understand because what this does to us, it gives us an opportunity. This this dispensational clock that I just showed to you gives us an opportunity to gauge what time it is in God's clock. You see, 2,000 years ago when John was taken into heaven, they were looking for a man. And the man we know is Jesus. At the end of the man, the the age of grace, we're going to go into the kingdom age, the end of the thousand years. Did you know what has to happen in the heaven's clock in order for that to happen? Well, guess what? God has to judge the governments of the world the in the same way that that they were when they sinned. When Peter sinned, God brought him. Jesus brought him back to the place that he fell. Remember, he got saved fishing. He denied Jesus by the fire. So Peter was fishing. Jesus came to the shore. Said, "Cast a net to the other side. He brought Peter back to the day when he was saved. When he realized that it was the Lord, he comes in. The Lord has a fire and in the fire there's fish and there's bread." And he says, "Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep." He restored Peter in the same way that he fell. Peter was by the fire when he denied Jesus. Okay? So God always brings something before he deals with it back to the condition that it was when he fell. So God at the end time has to bring first of all the nations of the world in one place with one accord and with one purpose. Then he has to bring Israel as a nation because when God judged him, he judged them for 483 years and then they were dispersed. And for 2,000 years they were not a nation. How can you ch uh judge a nation that Home Previous Next

A BELIEVER'S UNBELIEF To expose the subtle yet crippling impact of unbelief in the lives of believers and to lead them into spiritual awareness, repentance, and transformation through the power of confession, prayer, fasting, and faith in Jesus Christ. A BELIEVER'S UNBELIEF Minister Lisa Kane October 22, 2025 Objective: To expose the subtle yet crippling impact of unbelief in the lives of believers and to lead them into spiritual awareness, repentance, and transformation through the power of confession, prayer, fasting, and faith in Jesus Christ. Synopsis: In A Believer’s Unbelief, Minister Lisa Kane delivers a powerful teaching on how unbelief silently hinders the lives of believers, keeping them from walking in the fullness of God’s power and promises. Drawing from key scriptures in Hebrews, Romans, Mark, and Matthew, she illustrates that unbelief is more than doubt—it is spiritual hardness that blocks us from experiencing the supernatural life Jesus intended. The message challenges listeners to recognize the areas in their lives where unbelief persists, even while professing faith. Minister Lisa explores the spiritual implications of unbelief through the failure of the disciples to cast out a demon, the cry of a desperate father for help with his unbelief, and even how Jesus Himself was limited by the unbelief of others. She emphasizes that confession is the gateway to overcoming unbelief—confession as humility, alignment with truth, and a declaration of faith in Jesus' lordship. Prayer and fasting are highlighted as necessary disciplines to combat unbelief and grow in spiritual authority. Through biblical insight and practical reflection, A Believer’s Unbelief calls believers to a deeper faith—one that not only acknowledges Jesus as Savior but also embraces the power of His resurrection, healing, and deliverance. The message ends with a personal call: ask God to reveal where unbelief resides, confess Jesus over those areas, and begin to walk in the full measure of faith and power promised to every believer. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Unbelief hinders us greatly, and many who are believers don’t realize it. Unbelief keeps us from walking in the power of God and it makes us blind to everything around us. In fact, unbelief causes our heart, (soul – thoughts and feelings) to become hardened. Hebrews 3:7-8 NKJV 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, Notice earlier in the chapter, we read: Hebrews 3:1-2 NKJV Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. Confession is what helps us with unbelief. When we confess, it is an act of humility before the Lord. It is our spirit saying we were wrong and we need forgiveness, healing, deliverance, etc. Hebrews 3:16-19 NKJV 16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. When we walk in unbelief, we stay in the dry desert, wilderness and don’t reach the promise land. So, how do we confess? Romans 10:9 NKJV 9 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. 1 John 1:9 NKJV 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Jesus promised us that He will forgive and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Another way to say this is that when we confess, we are called righteous. Once in that righteous state of mind, we walk in the power of God. Jesus demonstrated to us in scripture what unbelief did to His disciples. Mark 9:17-29 NKJV 17 Then one of the crowd answered and said, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. 18 And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not.” 19 He answered him and said, “O faithless[b] generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I [c]bear with you? Bring him to Me.” 20 Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth. 21 So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22 And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23 Jesus said to him, “If[d] you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” 25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!” 26 Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, “He is dead.” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. 28 And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29 So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer [e]and fasting.” Let’s read the same event in Matthew: Matthew 17:14-21 NKJV 14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is [c]an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.” 17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O [d]faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour. 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your [e]unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 [f]However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” The disciples were unable to cast out this demon. Now notice, the disciples had already been casting out demons and knew how to do so. This wasn’t because they didn’t know what they were doing. Jesus explained to His disciples that unbelief played a role in this, as well as not being prepared through prayer and fasting. But look how Jesus handled the situation. He told the man that brought his son to him that if you believe, all things are possible. The man responded saying I believe but help me with my unbelief. He, the man, the father of this demon possessed child acknowledged that he could not help his son because he had no power. Since he had no power, he reached out to Jesus’ disciples and imagine what he thought when he saw that even the disciples could not cast out the demon. He came to the disciples because he believed but his belief was shaken. So Jesus reminded him but he said I believe but I need help with my unbelief. Because at this point, what else could be done when the disciples could not cast out the demon? Then Jesus cast the demon out and healed the boy. The disciples knew something wasn’t right here, which caused their belief to shaken. At this point, Jesus needed to restore their belief explaining that when you are shaken like this, you need to go back to the scripture, to Jesus and find out what’s going on. You need to bring your belief back up and Jesus did that by explaining that to cast out this kind of demon you need to be in prayer and fasting. Based on the outcome, the disciples weren’t praying and fasting like Jesus. Even Jesus was limited on what He could do when unbelief was present. Mark 6:5-6 NKJV 5 Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching. Here we are today, where unbelief is rampant here in America. This level of unbelief prevents the spirit from moving. Even the disciples didn’t believe those who told them Jesus had risen and Jesus rebuked them for their unbelief. Mark 16:14-18 NKJV 14 Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who [d]believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they[e] will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Unbelief keeps us from walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. The question you should ask yourself is what areas in your life where unbelief is true. Many believe in Jesus but don’t believe in the power of Jesus. For example, do you believe that Jesus saved you or are you hoping that He will save you? Do you believe Jesus heals? Do you believe Jesus delivers? Ask yourself what you believe and ask God to help you see the areas of unbelief in your life like the father of the son demon possessed. Then confess Jesus is Lord over that area in your life and watch God move over that area so that your unbelief is turned to belief. Home Previous Next

UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 4 Equip listeners to understand Revelation 6–7 as the convergence point of God’s “physical” and “spiritual” timelines—clarifying the roles of the seals, the rapture, Israel’s sealing (144,000), and Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 24—so they can watch, persevere, and minister with confidence as end-time signs intensify. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 4 Pastor Marcos Marrero May 24, 2009 Objective: Equip listeners to understand Revelation 6–7 as the convergence point of God’s “physical” and “spiritual” timelines—clarifying the roles of the seals, the rapture, Israel’s sealing (144,000), and Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 24—so they can watch, persevere, and minister with confidence as end-time signs intensify. Synopsis: Opening prayer & posture: A call to lay aside tradition and flesh, receive “rivers of living water,” and be strengthened for spiritual battle. Twofold structure of Revelation: Chapters 1–3 present the physical, linear church age (seven churches); chapters 4–6 unveil the spiritual dynamics behind that history (throne, Lamb, seals). Four horsemen as four forces: Antichrist deception, war, economic upheaval, and death operate to bring Israel (law) and the Church (grace) back into the same prophetic moment, culminating in Revelation 6. Fifth & sixth seals: The fifth seal highlights sacrificial witnesses (“under the altar”); the sixth seal pulls back the sky—heaven and earth meet, signaling imminent divine wrath and triggering end-time transitions. Transfer of anointing & the 144,000 (Rev 7:1–8): Before wrath falls, an angel “from the east” halts judgment; the Church is removed (Philadelphia kept from the hour of trial) and Israel is sealed (12,000 from each tribe) to carry the covenant witness. Great multitude (Rev 7:9–17): An innumerable company from every nation, tribe, people, and language appears before the throne—identified as those coming out of many tribulations who washed their robes in the Lamb’s blood (the raptured Church across the ages). Clocks and convergences: Physical clock: Six thousand years (six “days”) leading to the millennial Sabbath; 144 generations picture completion. Spiritual clock: 120 Jubilees (Noah motif) also converge near the end; both clocks meet at the sixth seal. Tribulation vs. wrath: Tribulation = persecution by men throughout the church age; wrath = God’s seven-year judgment. Confusing these leads to timing errors about the rapture. “No one knows the day or hour” (Mt 24): Read in context of the midpoint events (abomination of desolation). As in Noah’s day, God revealed the year and even a seven-day window; Zechariah 14 suggests a unique day when normal time is suspended to allow Israel’s flight on a Sabbath/winter. Midpoint details & flight: After the two witnesses’ 1,260 days, their death/resurrection coincides with Israel’s flight to refuge (Azal/“scapegoat” imagery from the Day of Atonement). God preserves a remnant for 1,290 days while others seal their testimony in martyrdom. Pastoral charge: Do not neglect Revelation or end-time preaching. Watch the signs (globalism, Israel, wars, upheavals), stay sober and ready, and lead others to Christ with boldness when the world is shaken—rejoicing at His appearing. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Indeed, Father in heaven, we ask that you grant us now ears to hear and a heart to understand, Father God. And I uh submit myself now, Father God, to the leading of the Holy Spirit. And I pray that I myself may have ears to hear, a heart to understand, and a mouth to speak the revelation that the Holy Spirit will want to bring to us tonight. Father uh in heaven in Jesus name. I agree with Fred as we bind the enemy right now. Father God as we declare the anointing of God in this place from above, beneath all around us, within us and through us, Father God, that the rivers of living waters that are attached to us through the Holy Spirit that is within us may be loose open today, Father God. Let all of the hindrances, all of the resistance, all of the failures, all of the garbage of the past, let it be washed away by the rivers of living waters, Father God. We don't want religion. We don't want no dead men's tradition. We don't want nothing, Father God, that has to do with the flesh of the world. We pant, Father God, for the rivers of living waters that flow from the heaven above, the door that Jesus has opened for us by writing our names in heaven. We come, Father God, and we thirst. And like Zechariah says that in the day of the latter rains, ask the Lord for rain. We ask for the rain now, Father God. In this day of the latter rain that we may be fed, nourished, and Father God, strengthened for the battle that lies ahead in Jesus name, we thank you, Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. I'm ready to fight. I'm ready to fight. Praise God. Hallelujah. We um uh concluded uh last week and that um um the sixth seal and of course as we have been studying I said that the the first three chapters of the book of revelation chapter 1 2 and three gives us the physical timeline of the church age from the time that it was born to the time that it will be taken away. the Philadelphia church will be taken away, but the uh Leodysa church will have to go through the time of testing that's coming to test the entire world. And so that is a lineal and you can follow it from the letter to the the first church all the way to to the letters of the seven churches. And then I made the point that chapters four, five, and six are now the spiritual revelation of the same events that were given to us during the church age. And then I show by using this paper how the spiritual timelines work. And we see here that um in the whole seven years that God created uh I mean 7,000 years from Adam until the this present physical realm that we know of is done away with when the new Jerusalem comes down from heaven and God comes to dwell with us. uh that there are seven dispensation and we saw that innocent, conscience, human government and promise are the four forces that drive the whole of humanity. So when God enter into the covenant which was the promise that he gave to Abraham out of Abraham came two uh dispensations. One was the law or Israel came through Moses and it was given to Israel and grace the church which God made it through the known through the apostles and especially through Paul as he brought it to us. Now out of the Israel and the church when they two come together out of that time we're going to go into the kingdom age or entering into the rest seventh always means completion or rest. So we also notice that the first part of it deals with the whole 7-year period, the the condition of man, how God had to intervene by giving him a promise and then God introduced the law, his grace and from there to those who respond, we go to the kingdom age. Now the church age was given to us as a seven because God in in God's uh timing seven means a completion of something. God divides things into seven like the week. We have Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then Sabbath the the seventh, that's when it rests, and then there's a new cycle. It begins again. So, we saw that we were given a message to seven churches. In chapters two and three, we have a physical revelation of the church age. So, since it's physical, it follows one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven because that's how we understand. But in the spiritual realm, following the the way that God does the seven, we can see that when we got to Revelation chapter 6, that God introduced four horses, a white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a pale horse. And that symbolized the four spirits or the four winds or the four forces that are at work. And what are these forces working for in the spiritual realm? They are working to number one bring Israel which is represented by the law back as a nation and to bring the church which is the grace of God back into the same time to bring them together once again. See the church was born out of Israel. It were all all the apostles were uh Jews who were preaching the gospel. Jesus elected all 12 of them. And so then there was a separation to where the the Jews and were scattered. And so all of these forces have been working together to bring the church back. When John wrote the book of Revelation, Israel had already been out of the land for at least 30 or 40 years because it was in 60 AD that Titus invaded Jerusalem and destroyed the temple, destroyed everything. uh John wrote it probably 90 to 95 AD. So that was 35 years later when John is given this revelation. And so these four horsemen which is the antichrist wars one world economy and then one war that is going to involve oneth of the earth right around where Israel is at. Out of that is going to come two things. Number one, the souls that are under the altar. And we said that the uh under the altar is the blood and the ashes. When you brought a sacrifice, they had an altar. They had a a a a grill on the altar. They brought the sacrifice alive. They slaughter it. The blood ran down and then they burned it. If it was a burnt offering, the whole carcass of the animal was burned. So the ashes went down. So the term under the altar means something that was sacrificed to God completely and it was burned to ashes. Now we know that the Jews what they went through in in in in Europe was called a holocaust. Holocaust means burnt offering. Read the Spanish Bible and you see it. The word that they use for for burnt offering right here is holocaust. Holocaust mean to be burnt. And the reason why they call it the Holocaust is because Hitler burned most of the Jews. Their bodies had to be burned. How do you dispose of six million people? I mean that is that is hard to do. So they bury they had huge masses of of grave but it's too many. So they would burn them. So we see that out of these four horses the antichrist war this came out. And and so we see that because of at the end of World War II, Israel was born as a nation. So Israel was brought into the scene. And then we we saw that in Revelation chap uh I mean on Revelation chapter 6 when the uh fifth seal was open. Then when the sixth seal is open, which has not happened yet, we see that all of a sudden the skies roll back and now we have the spiritual and the physical in the same realm. There's no more wall or sky as where it says the sky receded as a scroll and everybody on the earth now we know that the earth is round and if we're here you go all the way to the other side of the earth there's people there when the sky rolls back it rolls back as much here as it does in China why because this is spiritual that's the spiritual realm so everybody wherever you happen to be on the earth you get to see that the lamb of god the wrath of god and the and the and the wrath of the lamb as it says when the sixth seal is open is ready to take place. And so we, this is what we see here. The wrath of the lamb happens on the sixth seal. And when we get to the uh uh first half of the wrath of God, which is uh uh 1,240, you see the same example. You see that one/ird of the earth, one-third of the sea, one-third of the rivers, one-third of the sun, moon, and stars. And then you see that the result of that is for the first five months tormenting demons are released. God allows all of the demons that are in hell to coexist with the humans here on the earth. And you say, "Well, why would God do that?" Because you tell people about hell, they don't believe it. And people died right now went up to hell and they want to come back and at least warn their families. That's what Jesus told us about Lazarus. Said, "Let me go warn my brothers and sisters." Well, see these people have refused to believe the gospel that has been preached to the whole world. So what God does is for five months he does not allow anybody to die. Nobody can die for five month. Imagine that. You can have somebody that gets beheaded. And I can imagine the the the head can actually still see and guide the body to pick crap and maybe hold it back up in there or something. You can't die. It says that it says and I'm I believe literal as much as I can on the word of God. It says that for five months nobody can die. And what happens is during those five months the demons, all of the demons of hell are released and torment everybody in the earth for five months. It says they tells you what they look like. They got long hair like woman, teeth like lion. And it says they have tails like scorpion. And when they sting you, it's like when a scorpion stings person. This is going to take place for five months. Then at the end of five months which is the uh uh uh uh the sixth trumpet or world two then four destroying angels are released and then everybody now that has repented and that says okay Lord I I know the hell is real I I believe I repent then their death will allow them to enter now into the rest of God. So these angels will come in and kill onethird of all of the humans are on the earth. This is how many people are going to believe. So we see the same principle whether you see it in the 7,000 year period of human history or whether you see it in the 2,000 year of the church you see the seven whether you see it on the 1260 days of the first week of re uh first half of the wrath of God you see it. So this is a spiritual principle which if we understand will help us to understand how things work. So here we have the first three chapters give us the literal or the physical revelation of the church age. We can go through history and we can see it. We can see that in the spirit realm. Chapter 4 showed us heaven before Jesus became flesh. Chapter 5 showed us the word of God coming flesh becoming a man then being worshiped and a and a claimed by everybody in heaven. Then he has now authority to open the seven seals. And as he unleashes the seven seals, we see that he's working on the church age. Now when the sixth seal was open, all of a sudden the sky was removed and now you have the spiritual world that we cannot see now and the physical world that we're in collide at one time. It all becomes one. So this is where we're going to start. If you have the book, we're going to start at page u um was it 29? I said 28. Page 28. This is uh the rapture of the church. And we're going to go to Revelation 7. And we're going to read verses 1-4. If you have your Bible, Revelation is the last book. And it says, beginning on verse one of Revelation chapter 7, after these things, I saw four angels. Now after these things meaning after the six seal was open and everybody saw that the throne of God and everybody saw the lamb and everybody was hiding in the bomb shelters and and told the rocks fall on us and hide us from the wrath of of God and of the lamb which is about to take place. So all of a sudden in Revelation 5:1 it says that four angels were standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth. Now what are the fourth wind? what I just show you in the paper, the the first seal, the second seal, the third seal, the fourth seal, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are like four winds or four influence or four forces that are at work to bring what this time when heaven and earth meet. Now, heaven and earth just met the skies were re uh receded. The judgment of God is about to happen. And then all of a sudden, an angel comes in from the east. He says uh uh after these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth on the sea or on any three. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living God. And he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees until we have what? seal the servants of our God on their foreheads. And I heard the number of those who were sealed. 144,000 of all of the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed. Now, what is taking place over here is simply this. The church is about to be removed. Why? Because in in in in the message to the church of Philadelphia, uh uh Jesus told John to write, "Because you have kept my word and because you have not deny my name, I'm going to keep you from the hour that's coming to test everybody who lives on the earth." So we keep faith. We believe the word of God. We do not deny the the deity of Jesus Christ. That is our ticket out of here when it comes. So what happens is as the uh uh because we saw that when Peter is quoting Joel that uh the mountains were removed that there was uh billows of smoke and earthquake there was all kinds of things taking place and as this thing frightful things were taking place which are natural events that are taking place and everybody knows that the wrath of God is about to come this angel that comes from the east he said wait a minute we can't begin the judgment yet? Well, why? Well, because we were not appointed unto wrath. Paul says in the letter to the Thessalonians, you have not been appointed unto wrath. So, if the wrath of the land is coming, we have to be taken out. That's what the angel from the east does. Remember, Jesus says that in in his coming, he's going to be like lightning that flashes from the east to the west. He's talking about the rapture. But see, the church cannot be raptured because the church is the anointed entity of God here on the earth. We have been anointed to rule and to reign. That we are the only spiritual authority. Just like Israel was the only authority before that. That doesn't mean that you have to be Jew to be saved. We're not talking about salvation. We're talking about an entity that is in charge of as an ambassador to to bring God's gospel or or whatever the the law for the dispensation is to the world. And so before the church gets taken out, that anointing which is the seal of the living God, when did the seal of the living God come? In the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came and empowered the church, gave it the authority to carry out the work of God. Now that church is going to be removed, Israel has to be sealed. And so Israel responds by offering to God 12,000 young men who have never been with a woman. They're virgin. They're young. They're pure. 12,000 from each tribe. 144,000 are going to be offered to God and they're all will die by the time of the of the 1260 day and the two witnesses will die. So as they are offered to God, the anointing seal, God accepts their offering and their seal on their foreheads. And so here's what's happening. The sixth seal is open. The sky is removed. The world is screaming and crying because the earth is shaking. There's smoke. There's there's all kinds of things going on. The angel that come from the east, that's the rapture. The angel of the rapture says, "Hold everything. We have to transfer the authority from the church before we take it." Because when the church is gone, it's gone. And and the Leo, they say church don't have no authority. They deny Jesus is not it. Revelation 3:20, Jesus said, "Behold, I stand on the door and knock. If you open the door, I'll come in." Obviously, they never open the door. If they would open the door, they go up in the rapture. So, they're left. So, then the authorities transferred to the Jews. Now, who does this transferring? And of course, these are the two witnesses. The two witnesses while this guy is receding and it's back, not not just the angels coming in. The two witnesses come in. They will know what Jewish from what tribe and they will know exactly them to seal. But now here I'm going to give you a key and the key is that there are two clocks. There is a physical clock and there is a spiritual clock and the physical clock is governed by the times and the seasons. For example, uh uh uh uh the the earth takes 365 days to go around the sun. So that's a year. The earth takes 24 hours to go around on itself and within a circle. And that's called a day. And that is the what governs us. Our clock is governed by the position of the earth in relation to the sun. But when God introduced his spiritual clock, his spiritual clock was never dependent upon any physical thing. God just created everything on six days. And he says, "Okay, the seventh day is holy. We're going to rest on it. The seventh day can happen in winter. The seventh day can happen in summer. The seventh day can happen in spring. The seventh day represents God's spiritual clock." So now listen to this. Moses in Psalm 90 and and second Peter tells us that a day is like a year unto the Lord. And now I mean it's like a thousand years. A day is like a thousand years unto the Lord. Of course we have six dispensation. The seventh is when we enter into the day of rest. Revelation six different time says that Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. So, we do know that the last day is a Sabbath and it lasts a thousand years. So, that means that the first six days lasted 6,000 years. Okay? That's why when you add the the the calendar from the Bible, you come up that we're about the year 6,000 because we're about to enter into the day of rest. Now, look at this. The day symbolizes a thousand years. Now, if a day symbolizes a thousand years, what does the hour symbolize? Because we know that an a day has 24 hours. Well, guess what? The hour represents a generation. So, you see, out of every thousand years, God counts 24 generations. So, six working days is 144 hours. So when you come to the day of rest, the last hour, the 144th has to be the last one because that then you enter into the day of rest. So that tells us that this event is happening right at the end of 6,000 years because God except from Israel who's going to be now sealed 144,000. What that means is the 100th and 144th generation is the generation that will end time and then we'll go into the transition period of where we go a thousand years and it's physical. Moses says a day is like a thousand years and and and then by implication I know that an hour represents a generation. So there's 104. Adam was the first generation. Jesus says about the generation that will witness the signs on the sky when all of these things begin to happen. Jesus says this generation shall not pass away until all of these words are fulfilled. So the first generation was Adam and Eve. The last generation is the one that gets taken up. But there's more. There's the other time. The other time is the Sabbath time. God comes in through the law, through Moses, says, "Now, I want you to do this." He says, "When you go into the land, I want you to work the land for six years." In other words, you're going to plow the ground. You're going to put the seeds. You're going to take the weeds out. You're going to harvest. You're going to do this for six years. But the seventh year is holy. The land needs to rest. Nobody works on the seventh year. God told him, "Well, that's a problem. If you don't get paid for a whole year, you were in trouble, right?" So God says, "In the sixth year, I will bless you and your crops will produce double and then you put it in your barn." Man, I wish I had that deal today. I like to have every seventh year off without having to work. I have all my needs met, right? So this was idea. Then he says, "You do that is called a sbatical. You do that for a a cycle of seven. In other words, you do it the the first seven, the fourth thing, the 21, and then when you get to the 49th year, this is seven cycles of seven, seven weeks of seven. Then the 50th year is the year of jubilee. Now remember Jesus came, he said, I came to proclaim the year of jubilee, the year, the acceptable day of the Lord. That mean that's the year that you enter into rest. Now if you were an Israelite and you were in the 30th year of the cycle and you fell into death, in other words, you borrow money and you couldn't pay it, you will become a slave, but you have to be released on the 50th year because the 50th meant all of the debts were cancelled, ended. No more death. So if you had a land because all of the Jews inherited a a plot of land, you had a land. It always belongs to you and to your children to your children. After this, you could sell it, but whoever bought it had to figure out, okay, this is the 30th year. We got 20 years until Jubilee. Uh and they'll pay you for those 20 years because on the 50th year, they had to give you the land back. It's a jubilee. You enter into the rest. All of the maps are cancelled. See that is God sabatical clock. Now God comes in during the days of of Noah and he says I am going to bring judgment upon the earth and everything is going to be destroyed and I'm going to do it in 120 years. Now why would God select 120 years? Well, see the 120 years is spiritual and it applies to the church because there were 120 people on the upper room when the Holy Spirit fell upon them. So the 144 represents Israel physical the physical clock the spiritual clock is uh 120. Why 120? Well, God said I'm going to destroy the earth in 120 years. And 120 years exactly the judgment came. the you know in the 120th year the the the gates of the heaven were open the springs were open the water came in everybody was killed now Jesus comes in and says like it was in the days of Noah is going to be at the end time what does it mean well 120 time 50 which is a jubilee leads us exactly to 6,000 so you see what's happening over here like I've been teaching There's a spiritual clock. There's a physical clock. And boom, they're converging 144 generations later from Adam and 120 Jubilees from the day that Adam was created into to go into the garden and go into the rest are all converging at the end of chapter 6. And so here in chapter 7, now we're going to see the result. And the result is first 144,000 are sealed for for Israel. And then uh uh Revelation 7 9 and 10 says after these things I look and behold a great multitude which no one could number of all of the nations, the tribes, peoples and tongues that were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed with white robe with palm branches in their hands. And they were crying out with a lou voice saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and unto the lamb." This is the rapture. Notice that it is people from all nations. Now, notice that this it's not just all nations today because since this is the resurrection, this is all nations that ever existed. out of all tribes, wherever people were, out of all people and all tongues. That means that God is in the business of saving people and he saves people not just through Israel. Because if Israel uh uh failed to proclaim the gospel of God, then nobody got saved on the 1500 years that Israel was a nation. If the church has failed to proclaim the gospel like so so many places have pro uh failed to proclaim, then there will be people from tribes that were lost. But you see, Paul tells us in Romans chapter 1 that God has put within the creation and within the heart of man eternity to where men are convicted by the very creation itself. So out of every tribe, out of every tongue, out of every revelation, even when there was no gospel and and there's plenty of of of uh uh things has been said about that, Buddhist people that were praying to whatever and and had Jesus appear to them. All kinds of things that happened through the ages. And so what happens is this is when all of those people who die believing the word of God, the gospel, whether it was preached through a preacher, whether it was preached through the law or whether it was preached by nature or whether it's preached by your heart. Paul says this and as a matter of fact, let me go there. I want to make sure that I get this point. It's Romans chapter 1, the end of Romans chapter 1. Because I want to make sure that that we understand this is still Jesus, the one who does it is in Romans chapter 1 and uh and verses um let's begin with 17. He says, "For in it," talking about the gospel, he says, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation." Verse 16 and 17 says, "For in this gospel that is a righteousness, the righteousness of God is revealed that goes from faith to faith. And as it is written, the just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness." And look at verse 19. Because what may be known of God is manifest in them. For God has shown it to them. Meaning that the gospel has been preached to every creature. Look at the next one. For since the creation of the world, see remember from every nation, from every tribe, from every tongue, since the creation of the world, God's invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead, so that they are without excuse. And then he goes on to say that all of this is done through the sacrifice that Jesus gave. So that means that if you live somewhere way out there 3,000 years ago and never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, yet the gospel was preached to you by the things that were great. God speaks to you. God can speak to you through a song. God can speak to you. I remember when I was young, the first time I got drunk, I walk home, our house was on top of the water and I couldn't go into the house because man, I was moving and I sit there on the edge of on the dock on the water and my head was just going around and then all of a sudden this bright meteorite, whatever it was, just went by. It was 2 3:00 in the morning. Our town hardly had any lights. So, was you could see every star in the Milky Way and the thing just flushed so big in the sky. And I I was just felt so little seeing that. And of course, I was drunk. So this voice spoke to me and it was Satan. He says, "This is what your life is going to be like. Nothing. Nobody's going to see it. Everybody's going to miss whatever it is. Why don't you just end it? It is not worth it." I was saying to myself, "I don't know who you're talking to. I listen to you. I ain't that drunk. I know that for sure." I said, "I I went in and got in the bed and puke all over the place, but man, I wasn't going to jump in the water. you know, I don't care what you say. So, there is a a spiritual battle that takes place even before you're saved. You know, even in the middle of sin, how many people have told you that in the middle of their worst sin, God comes in and speaks to them. So, this is what I say. So, we see then in in Revelation 7 that out of every uh uh tongue all of the nations uh uh are there. Now, look at Revelation 11. 7:11 and uh let me go there real quick and to show you the the same principle. Revelation chapter 7 11 it says and all of the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures they all fell to their faces before the throne of God worshiping God saying amen. Amen means this is the end of of of this this concludes the church age. Amen. blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might. Sevenfold worship of God is given. Then in verse 13, one of the elders comes and asked John, who are this who are clothed with his white robes, and where did they come from? And he said, and I said to him, sir, you know, so he said to me, these are the one who come out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. See this is the church age because they have made their they have washed it in the blood of the lamb. Now the word there and this is where so many people get confused. The word uh that came out of great tribulation for some reason uh uh uh Bible teachers of the end time. They're telling you that the great tribulation is seven years. And if you were here in lessons past, I explained to you the difference between tribulation and wrath. Tribulation is when God, I mean when people persecute you for your faith in God. The church, if you look at the letter to the churches, they all undergo great tribulation. And one of them says, "You will have tribulation from 10 days." That was the it is historical fact. 10 different emperors persecuted the church that was a span of 200 and some years. So the church have gone through tribulation and has always been going through tribulation. Jesus said in this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer because I have overcome the world. Wrath is when God judges the earth for persecuting those who trust in his word. See that's the difference. The wrath of God is seven years. The tribulation endures a whole church age. And if you want to look it up, look at the word where it says these are they that came out of great tribulation. The word great is mega. The the word that we use is a Greek word to mean big, but it's plural meaning megas, many. These are they that came out of many tribulation, not one tribulation. And so this will help you to understand that the these are the church because they want to tell you that this happened in the middle of the tribulation. And to explain that they tell you that the 144,000 are evangelists that go out and evangelize the whole world. Nowhere in the Bible is that you see you have to make that up to explain why the rapture takes place in chapter 7 when you're thinking that chapter 4 is when he said come up here. That's that's when the rapture happened. That's if you don't understand the full twofold meaning of it. If you know that the first three chapters are physical and you know that the the that the next three chapters four, five and six are spiritual. They converge and when they converge that's when the rapture happens and then you don't have no problem explain it. That's why he says the these are they that came out of many mega tribulation. Now this possesses a problem. Go with me to Matthew 24 and let's look at verse 36 and 37. In Matthew 24:36 and 37, Jesus says, "But of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my father only." Let me stop there. We're going to deal with with that scripture, some more of that scripture there. But did you know that that is what has made me cele where in the word of God have you ever read God telling you don't read my word you don't need it have you ever read that anywhere is nowhere the opposite right God's always want us to study study to show yourself approved here men have taken the scriptures and they say no one knows the day nor the hour so because of that this Sunday when preachers preach all over the United States probably less than one half of 1% of the messages will be on the book of revelation. Now what is the most important event in the Bible? The Bible is about Jesus and the two most important events is his first coming and his second coming. That's it. The first and the second coming of Jesus. That's the most important of all of the events. The first event already took place 2,000 years ago. The next big event is when he comes back. How many preachers are going to be preaching on the book of Revelation telling you to get ready because Jesus is about to come this Sunday? I bet not too many. And you know why? Oh, no one knows the day nor the hour. So, let's not bother. No one knows. No one knows the day nor the hour. So, let's not bother. So because of this, so many Christians and their teachers and their pastor ignore the book of Revelation and the greatest event that we need to get ready for, which is when Jesus comes back. They don't want to bother with it. But you see what I've been teaching is that the sky is going to recede. It's going to open. There's going to be fire and smoke and all kinds of things before the great day of the Lord. That's what the church was birthed in. Remember Peter quoted Joel Home Previous Next

COVERING OF THE BLOOD To reveal the divine power, purpose, and protection found in the sacrifice of Jesus’ blood, connecting the Old Testament Passover covering to the New Covenant finished work of Christ. This message equips believers to understand how the blood of Jesus shields them from the destroyer, empowers them to reject the voice of the thief, and positions them to walk in forgiveness, righteousness, and abundant life through faith in Christ. COVERING OF THE BLOOD Minister Lisa Kane December 4, 2025 Objective: To reveal the divine power, purpose, and protection found in the sacrifice of Jesus’ blood, connecting the Old Testament Passover covering to the New Covenant finished work of Christ. This message equips believers to understand how the blood of Jesus shields them from the destroyer, empowers them to reject the voice of the thief, and positions them to walk in forgiveness, righteousness, and abundant life through faith in Christ. Synopsis: In The Covering of the Blood, Minister Lisa walks us through God’s unchanging pattern of protection and redemption—from the lamb’s blood brushed on the doorposts in Exodus to the precious blood Jesus shed on the cross for every believer today. We begin with the first Passover, where God instructed Israel to cover their homes with the blood of an innocent lamb. That blood stopped the destroyer in his tracks. It was a visible, outward covering—declaring, “This house belongs to God.” John the beloved later reveals the deeper fulfillment: Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. His blood becomes our covering. His sacrifice—poured out outside the gate—mirrors the blood applied on the outside of Israel’s homes. The message is clear: the blood of Jesus covers, protects, sanctifies, and separates us from the reach of the destroyer. Scripture identifies this destroyer as the thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. His access into our lives often comes through agreement—when we repeat his lies with our words. But when we agree with God’s Word, we close the door to the enemy’s influence and step under divine protection. As Psalm 17 declares, the word of God keeps us from the path of the destroyer. Through Jesus’ sacrifice—His side pierced, His blood and water poured out—we are forgiven, covered, blessed, and made righteous. The believer who stands under the blood can boldly say, “Not today, Satan.” The destroyer cannot cross the boundary of the blood. This message concludes with an invitation to receive the covering of Jesus’ blood personally through prayer—opening the door to forgiveness, protection, and new life. And from that moment forward, the believer can confidently declare: “Jesus, today is Your day over my life. Keep me whole.” Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Exodus 12:21-23 NKJV 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. 22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the [g]lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. In the Old Testament, blood sacrifices were necessary because Jesus, the lamb of God had not been sacrificed yet. Notice what the blood does…it’s prevents the destroyer from entering. John 1:29 NKJV 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! Jesus represents the lamb of the Old Testament that used when Moses, following God’s leadership was leading the people out of Egypt. He died on the cross to cover us with His blood so that the destroyer will not destroy us. Hebrews 13:12-16 NKJV 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might [c]sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, [d]giving thanks to His name. 16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. The author of Hebrews makes an interesting point here. He’s stating the sacrifice Jesus made was outside the gate. Remember, the blood that placed on the doorposts and lintels…the blood was sprinkled on the outside, not the inside. The blood becomes an outside covering over us keeping us from being destroyed. Exodus 12:23 NKJV 23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the [a]lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. So, who is the destroyer? John 10:10 NKJV 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. The thief is. Psalm 50:16-23 NKJV 16 But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to declare My statutes, Or take My covenant in your mouth, 17 Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you? 18 When you saw a thief, you consented[c] with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers. 19 You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. 21 These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes. 22 “Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver: 23 Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; And to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God.” The thief is sneaky and can sound like someone to listen to or be influenced by, but in order for him to succeed, we need to give him permission with our words. When you agree with his lies, you are against God. Psalm 17:4 NKJV 4 Concerning the works of men, By the word of Your lips, I have kept away from the paths of the destroyer. But when you agree with God, you are kept from the destroyer. This is what the sacrifice of blood did for you and me. John 19:34 NKJV 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. Jesus poured out His blood and covered us. Psalm 32:1-2 NKJV Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not [b]impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit. Romans 4:5-8 NKJV 5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.” Do you need the destroyer to stop interfering in your life? The time is now to ask Jesus to forgive you and to cover you with His blood. It’s easy. Say this prayer out loud: Dear Jesus, I’m sorry. I messed up and I ask You to forgive me of my sins and to cover me with Your blood. Keep the destroyer away from me. In Jesus’ Name Amen! Now, and from this day forward, you can say out loud – not today Satan, and he must flee! And after saying that, I would say too: Jesus, today is Your day over my life. Keep me whole. Home Previous Next

THE GOD WHO FORMED YOU The purpose of this teaching is to reveal the truth that God is the One who has personally formed, sanctified, and ordained each of us from the very beginning—even before birth. Drawing from Jeremiah 1:4–10, Psalm 139, and other supporting scriptures, the lesson emphasizes God’s intimate knowledge of us, His divine calling on our lives, and His continuing presence and authority through His Word. The teaching aims to encourage believers to embrace their identity in Christ, walk boldly in their calling, and trust the God who created and prepared them with love and purpose. THE GOD WHO FORMED YOU Minister Lisa Kane June 22, 2025 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to reveal the truth that God is the One who has personally formed, sanctified, and ordained each of us from the very beginning—even before birth. Drawing from Jeremiah 1:4–10, Psalm 139, and other supporting scriptures, the lesson emphasizes God’s intimate knowledge of us, His divine calling on our lives, and His continuing presence and authority through His Word. The teaching aims to encourage believers to embrace their identity in Christ, walk boldly in their calling, and trust the God who created and prepared them with love and purpose. Synopsis: This message, “The God Who Formed You,” begins with Jeremiah’s calling, where God tells the prophet, “Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee.” From this passage, the teaching highlights how God is not only the Creator of life but the One who molds, sanctifies, and ordains individuals for His purposes before they are even born. The lesson underscores that every believer has a divine calling, and God equips them with His Word and Spirit to fulfill it. Lisa explains how Jeremiah’s experience demonstrates God’s authority to appoint, prepare, and protect those He calls, even in the face of fear and opposition. She connects this truth to the life of every believer—affirming that God has written our names, our design, and our destinies in His book from the moment of conception. Psalm 139 reinforces that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” and continuously in God’s thoughts. The teaching also stresses the power of God’s Word placed in our mouths—just as He touched Jeremiah’s lips—enabling us to speak life, truth, healing, and authority over nations, circumstances, and personal struggles. Testimonies and reflections illustrate God’s personal involvement and protection in everyday life, reminding listeners that He is always near. Ultimately, the lesson calls believers to recognize their identity in the God who formed them, seek His kingdom first, and boldly proclaim His Word to others. By knowing that God has overcome the world, we can live with peace, confidence, and purpose, trusting in the One who knew us before we were born and continues to walk with us daily. 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 teaching on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025. Welcome. 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. I ask and pray over the listeners of this teaching that their eyes and ears and heart and mind are prepared and that they receive this teaching. they determine its validity with you, that um it is imprinted in their hearts and that your Holy Spirit works with them and bring it to remembrance so they do not forget it and that they remember who you are and what you're about and what you do to each and every one of us as our lives begin and in our and as our lives end. Thank you, Father God, for your precious word. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. and I'm glad you can join me today. Thank you for being here. This teaching is called the God who formed you. So, let's start off here in Jeremiah 1:4-10. Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, So, I'm going to stop here. This is Jeremiah. He is uh about to start the book of Jeremiah, and you can go read the whole thing on your own time. I'm going to just talk about these uh up to verse 10. The way I teach is I present to you the the word in the King James version. And if you see a bolded word in there with italicized words after it, the bolded word is the original word that the translators used in the King James version. And the italicized words are other words that the the translators could have used. And I get those other words from the Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. So, and I all I do is I add those extra words in that parenthesis is just to show you where the original author was going with this because we are talking through uh translation. So, I just want to clarify that. Okay. So, says then the word of the Lord came unto me saying, so now God is talking to Jeremiah and Jeremiah is recording this. We're in verse 5. Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee. And before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Okay, so we're going to stop really quick here. One of the things is I'm going to be talking about the God who formed me, the God who formed you. We are formed by God. The word formed, as you can see here, means to mold, squeeze, or determined. So he has determined us. He has molded us. He has prepared. He gave us a calling right at the outset here. There is just no uh holding back here. He's saying this is what I've called you. Now, he's telling this to Jeremiah. Now, I'm going to show you other scriptures here in a bit that's going to show you where the scriptures tell us that God is doing that to us, too. It's not just to be a prophet. But I wanted to show this to you because Jeremiah is a very interesting person. And he went through, for lack of a better phrase, hell on earth in speaking the words of God to the nation of Israel and then getting it written down and getting it preserved and his life ending. Jeremiah was called as a youth. And this is very, very interesting. He's saying straight up. This is God telling him before I formed you, before I even made the determination of you in the belly, he says, I knew, I recognized you. So, it's as if God had been sitting there waiting. I'm waiting for a prophet. Where is he? Oh, there he is. So, at the moment of conception, it was like, there he is. I knew you. This is the God that we serve. God is so powerful that even at the moment of conception, he writes a book about us. I'm going to get into that a little bit here. It's something I've taught on before, but I wanted to show and elaborate to you who this God is. He's the one who has formed us. He has prepared us. And here he's saying uh in the belly, I knew you. I recognized you. And then before you even came out of the womb, he says, I sanctified you. I made you clean. Now, I want to pause here and think about that for a moment. Why would a newborn need to be clean or a baby that hasn't even been born? Because a baby is conceived in sin. You see, Adam and Eve fell in the beginning and Jesus came back to redeem us and he's the one who had to clean us and sanctify us. So God is saying, "Listen, while you were in the womb and I knew you, I I mold before I even molded you. Before I even I determined you. I deter that's a word there in recognized. He determined. He formed. He recognized." Then he says, "I sanctified. I cleaned you." He did that to Jeremiah in order for Jeremiah to be the prophet. And look what else he says. And I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. I've placed you. I've called you to be I've given you to be a prophet over the nations. That's your calling. That's what I put on you. Question I have is what's the calling he put in your life? And and you know what? It's okay. God loves you so much that even if you didn't do what he called you to do or be, he knew. And he's just been waiting for you to come see him and talk to him. He knew it already while you were in the belly of your mother. He knew that already. He's just waiting for you to come to him. humble yourself and ask him to forgive you. By the way, he will he will always forgive you. And don't get tripped up about, oh well, there's the uh the son of predition that won't or not the son of predition that there's a sin that is not forgivable. Trust me, that's because that's on the son of predition. That's not on you. You are not the son of predition. You're not Satan. You are not part of that world. And even if you were like dedicated or committed or a curse was placed on your life, God already knew you. He looked at you in the beginning and he saw you already and he knew you. you know, to share a little testimony. My dad and and my husband and I were out to lunch after church this morning, uh, this afternoon, and we were talking about, um, how God has protected our family and kept us, and I remember one time, this is when we were living in Lake Elsenor, California. I remember sitting there, it's 3:00 in the morning, actually. I was laying there and it was 3:00 in the morning and I in California you always keep your windows open pretty much but I had a slider door there for the deck and I'm on the second floor. It is open but I remember laying there and aware that God was there. He was like right outside the window a little ways away but it was like and and I'm not talking just God. I'm saying God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. I was aware and in my mind to this day it still affects me in a way that he came to me at that point. Didn't have to say anything. I just knew he was there and that how that has impacted my life because I I sit here going, man, I must have got his attention somewhere in the future. Who am I that he came to visit me? But let me tell you something. He already knew. And he wanted me to know that he knew and that he was preparing me for whatever is to come. He's done the same for you. He knows you. He's written a book. Now look at Jeremiah's response. It's it's valid in and it's point on. He says, "Then said I, ah, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child." You know, it's funny. Jesus, he said, "Bring the little ones. Let them be here. If you do not bring the little ones in, then you know, you're not part of God." See, God loves children. God is a family man. Isn't that just incredible? Now your impression of family might not be beautiful because you know depending how you were raised and and whether you were orphaned or whatever has happened to you but God is a family man and then he provides you a family you know when you become a believer you become adopted into God's family which is his chosen nation of Israel and it's the church the body of Christ that is your family and sometimes it's really good and sometimes it's challenging But when you have a relationship with God, the God who formed you, he's the one that has prepared you and you you're at peace about everything. No matter someone, a loved one dies, because you know your father, you know who formed you. You know he has them. As it says in Hebrews 9:27, all are appointed to die once. Well, we're all eventually going to die. We're all going to end up on that other side right here though, right now, knowing that he formed us. What's the most important part? Share his word. Share our testimony. Share our lives. Let the people see that we have a peace upon us simply because we know he formed us. We know he has called us. That is the most important part of this. Now look at uh what God says to Jeremiah after he says that. Verse 7. But the Lord said unto me, "Say not, I am a child, for thou shalt to go to all that I shall send appoint thee, and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak." And then be not afraid of those of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. He says, I don't want you to be afraid. And don't say that just because you're a youth. He he says very clearly, I'm going to send you. You're going to be a voice and you're going to speak my words. And then I love how he says, "Don't even be afraid or revere their faces." See, when you're afraid of a bully or you're afraid of what people are going to say, you're giving them more power and authority than they actually have. They don't have that power and authority. So, what it is, you're revering them. You're like, "Oh, look at how much power. Oh, I got to be afraid of them." No, no, no. You need to be afraid of the God who can send them straight to hell for an eternity versus sending you straight to heaven with him as an etern eternity. This is where we have to finally humble ourselves before the Lord and realize I'd rather rever God and be afraid of him than be afraid of anything else in the world. And he's telling Jeremiah this because see Jeremiah is going to go through some hardships. You can go read the book of Jeremiah. You can go find out all the things he had to do and some of it was bad. You that's your homework. You go read that. Take you about I don't know a month maybe to read. The book of Jeremiah is a long book in the Bible. And uh just know that God is with him and God is very clearly saying I am with thee. I'm near thee and I'm going to snatch you away from them. I'm going to deliver you out of them. I want to snatch you away. So Jeremiah still lived to be a lengthy time, but it was a hard life. But God knew this and he had formed him and that's where he was going with him. So he's telling him, "Don't be afraid." Then he continues on in verse 9. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. You see, here is a God who has created everything. He created the universe we're in. He created the the air, our bodies, how to adapt and adjust and live in this world. We're in such a way that if you had so much faith that you can never be sick, you will never be sick. You can live like that. If you believe everything, you know, then you might believe who is telling you you're going to be sick or this or culture tells you, oh, if you go from hot to cold or cold to hot, you're going to get sick. No, you don't have to live like this. See, God gave you the ability to live in healing, to live in peace, no matter what circumstance has taken place. I I do know some people that I sit there and I get mad for them for what they had to go through and they're just like, well, you know, and they they don't even they hardly talk about it or it's uh just a as a casual bygone. That is how God has transformed their lives and he gave them that ability. So here he is doing the same for Jeremiah. He put his he touched his word into his mouth. See Jesus is the author of the word of God. Jesus is the word of God. He's the embodiment of it. So here he says, "Okay, let me touch your lips." He touches Jeremiah's lips. And when he touched his lips, he put his word. He put Jesus into the lips of Jeremiah. So every time Jeremiah spoke the word of God, he was speaking what Jesus was speaking to the nation of Israel and warning them and warning them and warning them because that's what Jeremiah is all about is all the warnings. Don't stray away from God. And they wouldn't believe. And they were stubborn, so stiff necked. But that was how the Israelites were at that time. And God was working with them. He they Jesus spoke his word through Jeremiah. Continuing on, it says, "The Lord said unto me, behold, I have put my words, my cause in your mouth." See now the cause, Jesus cause of salvation, healing, mercy, redemption. He put all that into the mouth of Jeremiah. Says, "I want you to tell these words to the nation of Israel." See, Jesus loves. Jesus is forgiving. He is the merciful, graceful God that there is. And he's telling the nation of Israel through Jeremiah, I want you to repent. Come back to me. Stop following false idols. And this is where Jeremiah became that word and had to go speak that because God called him to do that because he knew him. God formed Jeremiah. God formed Lisa. I'm gonna make her a teacher of the word of God. and I'm going to make her an intercessory prayer warrior. She's going to pray into the situations the name of Jesus. And then you begin to see how God moves. But it's because he formed me. He knew me. And he is doing the same. He has done the same for you. Amen. Continuing on, see this verse 10. God is still talking. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms. So he Jeremiah is overseeing the kingdoms and the dominions and the powers because he's got the word of Jesus in his mouth and the word of Jesus has always had the kingdoms and dominions. You know Satan lied to him in the 40 days of wilderness when Jesus was fasting. You know the the devil tempted him says listen you bow down to me I will give you all these kingdoms they'll worship you. No, they the devil never has the kingdoms because the saints, Jeremiah being one of them, and if you go read Isaiah 49, we 149, we have the ability to pray over our kings and dominions and cause effective change. One of the reasons why Trump is president now is because of prayer from the church. The church said, "You know what? We see the difference between Kamla and Trump and Lord we are putting this at your throne and we speak the word of God and we pray the word of God over it and what happens Trump got voted in. That's because God already knew the situation. He had already formed Trump. He prepared Trump for this time. He prepared Kamla at for her time at this season. But she has gone a different route. Who knows? She could have been all powerful and could have been the first black American president if she had been a believer in God and God had taken her down that route. But her actions clearly say that she does not support Israel. She So I, you know, don't know if she's an actual believer, but she didn't have that blessing on her. Trump did. But remember, God makes people for and then he makes other things. He made the devil. He formed the light, but he created darkness. That's Isaiah 45:7. You can go read how he did that. So God can do anything and prepare anyone at any time for any of this. Uh to root out. Now listen, this is the authority Jeremiah's given. So he says, "See, I've set this day. I've I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out." That's to tear away, to pull down, to tear down, and to destroy, lose or perish, to throw down, break in pieces, to build, repair, and to plant or fasten. Jeremiah was given that authority. So when he would speak a word, the word of God, Jesus, it would be to tear down, to tear apart, to break into pieces, or to repair, and to plant. You see, that was God's plan for Jeremiah. And this is where we have to realize that he has given us authority as the body of Christ to do the same. Amen. Let's go to Psalm 139. I want you to see something here in u the Psalms. Verse 13. For thou hast possessed my reigns, purchased me is what that means. Thou has covered or fenced in me in my mother's womb. I love that word purchased me. I love that extra translation that could be in there because Jesus is our redeemer and he paid the price for our sins. He has set us apart from the world. And he did it where? In our mother's womb. He covered us. He fenced us in. He put us in there. He's already got us covered. Even though we were conceived in sin, this is what redemption and mercy is about. God who formed us, you know, he could have ended everything and stopped back then and restarted and who knows could have hoped that Adam and Eve wouldn't do it a second time, whatever. But instead, he decided to continue on with it and send his only begotten son to redeem the people and decided to do that because he loves us so much. He wanted to get to know us. He formed us in the womb. Even before we lived our life, even before we made the decision to call on his name, he knew us. This is the God who formed us. Verse 14, I will praise thee, or throw my hands up to thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. You see his word, he put his word in Jeremiah and Jeremiah spoke his word, but he put his word, the name of Jesus. He put Jesus into us in the womb for right to for us to recognize and know right from wrong. We know the difference. This is why we were able to come in and pray and see Trump become the victor over Kamla. We were able to see that because we know right from wrong by the fruit of their actions. I love it how Trump, you know, they just bombed the nuclear plants in Iran. I love it how Trump came out and says, "God, I love you. Thank you." You see, he's putting God first in his life. You can't ask for anything more than that. Now, whatever God ends up doing with Trump and how he uses him, maybe he sets him up for his return, whatever ends up happening there, one thing I know is based on right and wrong, based on what was placed in my heart while I was in my mother's womb, I know that we're in the right right now because of the fruit of what I can see and what the Lord has caused me to know in my heart. Amen. My substance or power was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. You see, when you have intimate relations with someone and you get someone pregnant, that's usually in darkness or it's, you know, a very intimate time. It's a very private time. It's enclosed. This is what how it happens normally. But you see, God knew us there. We were still known by God even in that moment. He knew. He knew us because he formed us. He prepared us. He called us. Verse 16. Thine eyes did see my substance. Yet being imperfect, listen, we weren't we were in conceived in sin, we were already imperfect in the womb. And he saw us. And in Jeremiah's case, he called Jeremiah. Oh, look at this. So then he says, "Yet being imperfect, and in thy book all my members were written, described, which in continuence were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." He didn't even have his members yet. you know, he was conceived and at the point of conception, you're just a little mass, a little, you know, it's an egg and a sperm and it starts to form inside there, but there are no legs, there's no head, there's no brain, there's no eyes, there's nothing yet. You're just a little seed in there. And he says, "And in thy book, all my members were written, described." At the moment of conception, God writes a book about you. It's entitled with your name. He knows your name. He knows whether you're male or female. He knows what your members are going to look like. He's already written your description in there. He knows at this moment when it hasn't even happened. This is the God of whom we serve. This is our God. This is how powerful he is. This is why the grave couldn't hold back Jesus. Oh, hallelujah. And uh which in continuence were fashion when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, oh God. How great is the sum of them. He thinks about us all the time. We are mindful. He is mindful of us. He thinks of us all the time. They are continuous thoughts that he has and they're good. They're precious. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee. God doesn't leave us. He's still there. We go to sleep. We go off into dreamland. We go into wherever place we go. Our body needs that rest, but our mind still goes somewhere else. God is with us when we wake up. And his thoughts are good over us. He's got plans and thoughts for us. And all it is is just stopping and saying, "Thank you, Lord." And asking him to lead us. He will take us there. He will open doors. He will close doors. He will protect us. He will because he's the God who formed us. Oh, hallelujah. This is awesome. Then it says here in Matthew 28, look at what Jesus says. Because again, Jesus is the word of God that was placed in Jeremiah. And then Jesus right and wrong is what's placed in our heart. Look at what Jesus says here in Matthew 28. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven and earth." Jesus has all the power and authority. He's the one who said, "Let there be light." And there was light and it was good. This he's he's the all powerful. He's the power. He's the one who did it. He's the one who made it happen. And it was by spoken word. Says, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." You see, now it's a little different here. He told Jeremiah, "I'm going to put my word in you. what you speak, you're going to tear down, pull around, pull up, uh, break into pieces, repair and build up and plant. That now he says, I want you to go to everyone, teach them, baptize them, teach them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Still, he is with us every day, and he has overcome the world. That is so amazing. In fact, let's read that last scripture there. Verse 33 or John 16:33. These things I have spoken unto you that in me might have peace in the world. You have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. See, God created this world. Jesus created it all. So, he has placed it his word in our hearts. And he tells you, I want you to do these things and I want you to go do what you need to do. This is what I'm calling you to do. I formed you to do this. And he says, "And don't be afraid of them. I overcame I overcame the world." I love that. That is so awesome. This is the God who formed us. He's the one who has established us. So if you want to know what your will in God is, first seek first the kingdom of God. Matthew uh 6:33, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. How do you seek the king seek seek the kingdom of God? You seek him by putting him first in your lives. Have a relationship with him in the morning, in the evening. Read the word. Pray. Ask him questions and look. He will answer you. Then he tells you to go into all the world. That is also letting people know the relationship you have with Jesus because they can have it too because he formed them in the womb just like he formed me and Jeremiah in the womb. Like you, he formed you. He prepared you. And he's telling you to go into all the world and preach the good news. Telling you that I am the good news. I came and redeemed you. I paid the price for your sins. I'm the one who knew you. You know me because you know the right I have placed in you in the womb. This is who I am. This is who you are. Let us partner up together and go show the world the testimony of what I have done for you. This is Jesus calling us into that anointing, into that walk, into that relationship with him so that we can say, "Hey, look what I have. I've got Jesus. Do you want to have peace in your life, too? Let me introduce you to Jesus." He knew you when you were conceived. What? Before you even had a body, he knew what you would look like. And he knows he has good thoughts of you. He thinks wonderful things about you. He is mindful of you. He wants to know everything about your life. What's going on? Where are you going? What are you doing? This is the God who formed you and he placed right in your heart and you can speak his words just like Jeremiah did by taking the scripture, reading it, saying it out lou out out loud and applying it to whatever situation you're in. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. By his stripes I was healed. Let no man take apart what you have brought together. These are just some of the verses that we have that take us to making an effective change with our prayers. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Your word is powerful. Your presence is powerful and we know in our heart what is right and what is wrong. Thank you, Father God, for placing your word in our mouths and helping us to know you because you know us so much more than we know you. And I pray that we begin to have that relationship with you where we know what is right and we can stay away and pray against that wrong that is out there. Father God, thank you for your paying the price and redeeming us and saving us. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

SEARCHING FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD To teach believers how to diligently seek, receive, and apply the Word of God as their greatest treasure, so they may understand the fear of the Lord, walk in His wisdom, and obtain the knowledge that guards, directs, and transforms their lives. SEARCHING FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD Minister Lisa Kane September 3, 2025 Objective: To teach believers how to diligently seek, receive, and apply the Word of God as their greatest treasure, so they may understand the fear of the Lord, walk in His wisdom, and obtain the knowledge that guards, directs, and transforms their lives. Synopsis: This message, based on Proverbs 2:1–12, unpacks the biblical process of discovering the knowledge of God. It begins with receiving and confessing God’s Word, as Romans 10:9 affirms, and continues by treasuring His commands within the heart. Believers are called to incline their ears to wisdom, apply their hearts to understanding, and cry out for knowledge with the same passion as one who seeks hidden treasures. The teaching emphasizes that when God’s Word is sought and hidden like precious silver, it brings divine covering and separation from the world’s snares (Psalm 91:1). This pursuit leads to understanding the fear of the Lord and finding His knowledge, which becomes a lamp to our path (Psalm 119:105). With wisdom entering the heart, discretion and understanding preserve the believer, delivering them from evil influences and guiding them in righteousness, judgment, and every good path. Ultimately, the message calls believers to make God’s Word their highest priority—treating it as a treasure—so they may walk under His covering, avoid the traps of the enemy, and live in the awareness and authority of God’s presence. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Opening scripture: Proverbs 2:5 KJV 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. Notice the first word in this verse, ‘then’. What must we do to understand the fear of the Lord and to find His knowledge. Let’s start at verse 1: Proverbs 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide (hoard, reserve) my commandments with thee; The Holy Bible is the Words of God. In order to understand them, you need to receive them. How do you receive them? By confessing and acknowledging them as Romans 10:9 tells us. 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. We can see a pattern in Proverbs 2. First, receive, then hide or hoard/reserve those words. How do you hide or hoard/reserve the words in the Bible? By spending time reading the Words of God asking God out loud what do they mean. Proverbs 2:2 KJV 2 So that thou incline (to prick the ears, hearken, attend) thine ear unto wisdom, and apply (stretching or spreading out) thine heart (feelings, intellect) to understanding; When we receive, confess His Words, then hide them, we are inclining or paying attention to those words and applying (stretching or spreading out) to our heart or feelings and thoughts that lean towards understanding. He continues in Proverbs 2:3-4 KJV 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge (understanding), and liftest up thy voice for understanding (intelligence, reason); 4 If thou seekest (strive after) her as silver, and searchest (hide self) for her as for hid treasures; The author of this proverb tells us more about how to cry out and seek after His Words. He tells us to ‘strive after her as silver’. If you found a hoard of silver, the first thing you do is don’t tell anyone. The next thing is that you start to sell it quietly. And you do this with silver, gold or any special treasure you find. You hide it from others because others will then become jealous and possibly try to kill you. His Word is like a treasure that we need to seek, find, and hide in our hearts. THEN… Proverbs 2:5 KJV 5 Then shalt thou understand (separate mentally) the fear (morally reverence) of the Lord, and find (attain) the knowledge (awareness) of God. Here, back at our opening scripture, this is where we find understanding of God. We separate ourselves from the way the world operates and operate through His Words spiritually. To do this, we do this by faith with works. Psalm 91:1 KJV He that dwelleth in the secret place (covering) of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. The way to show faith is by action. Action is when you take time to read His Words. Get to know His Words and apply His Words. And you do this in the secret place or another way to say this, this is where you put on God’s covering over yourself. Once the separation from the world takes place and you are under His covering, then you become aware of God. You obtain His knowledge over you. Yes, His knowledge. You start to see things differently and He keeps you from fall for the pitfalls laid as a trap for you. Proverbs 28:10 KJV 10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession. In essence, His Word is: Psalm 119:105 KJV 105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. As you continue in Proverbs 2:9-12 KJV: 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; You become delivered from the way of the evil man. The way the world operates, which is done through manipulation and sin you avoid because His Words are your treasure. Seek His Word as the priority of your life because then you become aware of God in your life and you will know He is Lord. Home Previous Next

WHAT A CHRISTIAN FIGHTS AGAINST - PART 2 The objective of this lesson is to help believers understand the deeper realities of the Christian battle described in Ephesians 6:12, moving beyond the struggle against flesh and blood to confront powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places. By examining Scripture, we will learn who these powers are, their limitations under God’s authority, and how Jesus Christ has already triumphed over them through the cross. This teaching aims to equip Christians with the knowledge that light always overcomes darkness, that spiritual authority is found in Christ, and that victory is secured by putting on the whole armor of God, seeking His kingdom first, and standing firm in prayer and faith. WHAT A CHRISTIAN FIGHTS AGAINST - PART 2 Minister Lisa Kane October 1, 2025 Objective: The objective of this lesson is to help believers understand the deeper realities of the Christian battle described in Ephesians 6:12, moving beyond the struggle against flesh and blood to confront powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places. By examining Scripture, we will learn who these powers are, their limitations under God’s authority, and how Jesus Christ has already triumphed over them through the cross. This teaching aims to equip Christians with the knowledge that light always overcomes darkness, that spiritual authority is found in Christ, and that victory is secured by putting on the whole armor of God, seeking His kingdom first, and standing firm in prayer and faith. Synopsis: In What a Christian Fights Against – Part 2, Minister Lisa Kane continues unpacking Ephesians 6:12 by exploring the believer’s struggle against powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places. Through passages in Romans, Colossians, and the Gospels, this teaching shows that while earthly and spiritual authorities exist, their power is limited under God and cannot separate us from His love. Jesus Christ has already disarmed principalities and powers, triumphing over them at the cross, and through Him we are made complete and victorious. Darkness is overcome by walking in the light, and spiritual wickedness is defeated by seeking God first, guarding our hearts, and putting on the whole armor of God. This message calls believers to prayer, perseverance, and steadfast faith in Christ, knowing that through Him, we overcome. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Ephesians 6:12 KJV 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. In part 1, I spoke on how we don’t fight against flesh and blood but that we do fight against principalities. Now, let’s continue in Ephesians 6:12 – ‘against powers’. We fight against powers. I have some questions…who and what are these powers, and how do we fight against them? Romans 13:1 KJV Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. According to Strong’s Hebrew/Greek Dictionary – Power (exousia / ex-oo-see'-ah in Greek) in Romans 13:1 means: From G1832 (in the sense of ability); privilege, that is, (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence: - authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength. Powers are those in authority, and according to Romans 13:1, the powers that be are ordained by God. Even though they are in authority under God, they have limitations. For example, they do not have authority to separate us from the love of God. Romans 8:38-39 KJV 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Colossians 2:9-15 KJV 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Did you see in verse 2 of Colossians chapter 2? We are complete in Him, and He is the head of all principality and powers. In verse 12 and 13, we’re buried with Him in His baptism and we’re dead to sin. He took all of the principalities and powers and nailed them to His cross according to verse 14, in essence nullifying these principalities and powers. So, through Jesus, we overcome the principalities and powers that are subject to God. Continuing in Ephesians 6:12 KJV 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Next, we fight against rulers of the darkness of this world. John 1:5 KJV 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Darkness consist of the things that are against God but the moment we accept Jesus as our Lord and savior, we overcome the darkness, just like we overcome the principalities and powers. 1 John 1:7 KJV 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. Colossians 1:12-14 KJV 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Light exposes the darkness. We fight against darkness by shining our light into the world. Matthew 5:14 KJV 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. We stand with Jesus, and we defeat the darkness. Continuing in Ephesians 6:12 KJV 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. The last item in Ephesians 6:12 that we fight against are spiritual wickedness in high places. A high place, lofty or haughty is the center of your being. What is most important to you? Money, prestige, self? How do you fight against this? Ephesians 6:10-11 KJV 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Psalm 51:10 KJV 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 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. The theme throughout Ephesians 6:12 is to put Jesus in our lives first and then we overcome. We overcome by simply aligning ourselves with Jesus. Matthew 6:33 KJV 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. As you can see from Romans 10:9 and Matthew 6:33, speak Jesus as Lord over your soul, spirit, and body. Seek His Kingdom first and His Righteousness second, and you will overcome. Ask God to change your heart and be clean like David did. Take that armor, pray and stand. Ephesians 6:10-18 KJV 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; Pray. Pray fervently. Keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and we overcome through Him. Colossians 3:2 KJV 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:17 KJV 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Philippians 2:10 KJV 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; Place Jesus first in your life and you overcome through Jesus, and this is what and how we fight as believers in Christ. The question I have for you is ‘do you believe’? When we believe, we overcome. Home Previous Next