Many think today that Christ came to do away with the law and the prophets.
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. 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. (Matthew 5:17, 18).
What did He fulfill?
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:9-10)
You are not saved by works, but by faith. The law cannot save. Only through the sacrifice can you be forgiven.
What was abolished in the Coming of Christ? Sacrifices and offerings.
“I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, Thy law is within my heart.” (Psalm 40:8).
Christ did not alter the commandments of God. They are still here today.
Paul wrote to Timothy, “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word.” (2 Timothy 4:1-2).
What are we preaching? Jesus Christ. He us the Word!
We can’t cut pieces of God’s Word out. We must take the full counsel of God.
Jesus told us, “If ye love Me, keep my commandments.” (John 14:15).
“Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage– with great patience and careful instruction.” (2 Timothy 4:1-2). Paul talked about instruction, that comes from the Scripture, which is the Old Testament. He said, “Preach this Word”.
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. (Matthew 5:13-16).
So many times we become involved in church things and our life is consumed by necessary things, like studying. There are many students of the Word who don’t really know Him. We are coming to the living Word of God.
Salt has ability to preserve - a wonderful gift God gave. With our weather we are thinking about salt having the ability to melt. “You are the salt of the earth.” We have the ability to preserve, keep life. In preserving life we share life.
I can’t find life in a grocery store on the shelf and to buy life. The only place to find life is in the presence of the life giver. People teach that we have endless life and that we are immortal. Even though the Bible never calls men immortal, only through the relationships with Christ can we experience real life now and in His coming we will be transformed and become immortal.
Salt can melt lies, melt stony hearts. You are salt. You. Because of Christ indwelling us we can melt down barriers. We can reach the world because we are salt. There is no limit to what we can do.
The way we think is the way we respond. We need to think of ourselves as new creatures. You have been redeemed. The Spirit, that cries, “Abba, Father” is in you.
If you think of yourself as a sinner you will sin. If you think of yourself as a new creature, liberated by Christ, you will think of yourself as a child of God. We are leaders, not followers. Of course we are followers of Christ, but in this world you are the light. We have ability to impart guidance.
“For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.” (Hebrews 13:14). This passage tells us who we are.
This is the second message from the series “Back to Basics”.
28 …When Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: 29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes (Matthew 7:28-29).
Our series of messages are very elementary and simple, but if you stay the course our Master can look at your situation and your need and speak healing and restoration to your life, for He is willing. But first faith comes to last by hearing of the Word of God.
God is calling us back to the basics.
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. (Matthew 5:3-9)
This week I was praying about a need. I came before the Lord and said, “Father, I need help. I don’t know what to do.” His Spirit came upon me and He said, “Ask your Dad what you need”. And I broke. We have a Heavenly Father, Who sees our needs and is touched with our hurts, and He does not look at us with judgmental eyes, but with eyes of compassion and says, “Ask your Dad what you need”.
He assured me that all things shall be well, just stay the course.
We are overcome and wrestle with things of no value. God is saying, “Listen, church, wake up!”
God is speaking to the church in these last days and challenging us to step up to the plate and to experience blessings. The message is simple, “We go and do everything the way God wants it done, and He pours out blessing upon our lives.”
You cannot get God’s blessing and walk hand in hand with the world. Don’t dare to look at God and say, “I don’t know why you don’t do this for me.” Because you are disobedient.
God is calling us back to the basics. “Blessed are they that mourn: Blessed are the poor in spirit, Blessed are they that mourn”. Because you are disobedient. “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you”1.
Separation from worldliness and returning to the basics does not mean that we are deprived and unable to experience joy. For Jesus said, “Blessed are you when you morn”.
I don’t want to invite the Lord to a church that is fighting, quarreling, upset, discouraged and perplexed. How many Christians do you know, that are discouraged and perplexed? They would come to you and say, “Oh, brother, you are doing fine. Everything is OK.” How do you know it?
You and I have a privilege to become all that God has for us. Do you realize that you can help move the hand of God to change this whole nation? Do you realize that you can help your young people make decisions in your prayer closet? You and I have more power with God that you ever dreamed of. I will call you men strong flaming hearted men as ready to get something done.
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5). This is talking about the world and also about the apostate church.
That is the reason we have to come out of the system. It is a power, but it is not the right power. We have to understand, that the system is not going to help us. It has the form, but it does not have the power. And we are looking for that power. “6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2 Timothy 3:6-7).
Picture, that a character standing at the door. He says, “I’m going to kill you and steal from you everything I can.” What are you going to do? This character has a force. He is strong, but you are stronger. He can do a lot of damage, but you can damage him. Here is standing Michael the archangel ready to fight your battles. It is going to depend who is going to rule your life, your home, your church. Either Michael is going to fight for you or Satan will have the upper hand.
Groaning in the Spirit is a form of intercession. “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” (Romans 8:26). “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you” (Galatians 4:19).
When you are in a situation when you exhausted everything you know of, you need to know about this powerful form of intercession, groaning in the Spirit, overcoming your lack of knowing what to pray about.
There is an abuse of it. Holy Ghost does not wale and travail, you do.
Every time I prayed this prayer I came through. There was only one exception when this prayer did not work, when a friend of mine came out of 42 days fast, abused his body, broke this fast by eating steak and French fries and died.
By Andrew Wommack
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Я просил Бога показать мне что-то такое, что способно помочь христианам одержать победу без того, чтобы перелистывать всю Библию в поисках нужных стихов. И Он показал мне стихи, которые, если их крепко усвоить, то просто невозможно потерпеть поражение. Если вы хотите выстоять во время скорби, которое грядет на землю, эти формулы вам просто необходимы. Вы cможете выстоять в любом преследовании, в любой беде.
Господь не только ожидает от Своих детей победы, но Он дал им Свое Слово, чтобы показать, как одержать победу. К сожалению, многие напоминают Гедеона, который спросил: «…господин мой! если Господь с нами, то отчего постигло нас все это? и где все чудеса Его, о которых рассказывали нам отцы наши, говоря: “из Египта вывел нас Господь “? Ныне оставил нас Господь и предал нас в руки Мадианитян» (Судей 6:13).
Многие люди недоумевают: «Почему это случилось со мной?» или «Почему так получилось?» или «Почему Божьи обетования для меня не работают?».
Однажды, когда я молился, Господь дал мне семь волнующих формул победы, которыми я хочу поделиться с вами. Хотя многие люди раньше уже исповедовали эти библейские стихи, данные формулы делают каждое исповедание более личным и глубоким. Если помещать эти исповедания вместе, они становятся уникальными и приносят более значительные победы. Когда я поделился этой программой с другими, они свидетельствовали о том, что одерживали более крупные победы - некоторые пережили это спустя всего лишь несколько дней.
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Galatians 6:9)
To persevere means: to persist in spite of counter influences or opposition or discouragement; to remain unchaged or fixed in character, condition or position.
We are not developing the character of God. We are very shallow: when a slightest obstacle comes, we’d throw a towel: “Maybe it was not God’s will,” and we’d go on.We are suffering from lack of perseverance.
“3 Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs– he wants to please his commanding officer.” (2 Timothy 2:3-4)The word is given to you for the benefit of your spiritual soundness. Stand up and quit being candy.
“4 No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs– he wants to please his commanding officer.”
You cannot experience the richness of God if you are playing with the world. You need to separate yourselves from worldliness.
“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” (Romans 5:1-5)
John 4:34-35 34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.”
“I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” (Luke 18:17).
Let’s be honest, many of you think, “If those children don’t make noise it will be much better.” Children’s hearts remain pure and simple.
Last night I watched my grandson. He sat on my lap and started playing with my face, laughing, pulling my ears. How many of us are like that? How many of us want to look in the face of our Master?
How many of us have fun with Christ? How many of us truly know Christ? If we really truly know Him we won’t have regimented, cut and dry, stagnant and boring things. How many of us want to look in the face of Christ and know Him?One person leaps off the pages of the Bible, who really truly wants to know God that way. That was David. He got away with stuff (not with sin). When he was hungry he went to the temple and took the bread that was not lawful for him to eat. He was intimate with God. He was real!But people want to keep distance from God, to keep it in theological context. But David was so real, that he took His clothes off and danced before the Lord, like those children. We are so filled with head junk, and garbage that men have crammed in our brains, that we disconnect from God, and He is looking to have relationships with us.Jesus said, “You will not enter the kingdom if you are not like that child!”God said, “I don’t want you to be philosophical. I want you to be like children in My presence”.
We are missing it, because we think we are right.
Matthew 11:25:“At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.”
March 27-28-New Holland, Pennsylvania Word of Truth Ministries, Pastor Jake Riehl Special teaching by Brother Rodes on Filled With All the Fulness of God
Note: Because of request, we list the itinerary each quarter so people can pray for our travels more effectively and know where Bishop Daniel Rodes has been and will be.
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We recently signed a 3 month contract with WAZT, a TV station that reaches areas of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. We will began broadcasting on this TV network in September, 1 hour each week on Thursday evening 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM. We plan to use one hour messages from our church services for this program. We would appreciate your prayers concerning this new outreach Read the rest of this entry »
We are happy to inform you, that Truth, Light and Life Ministries, Int. now has two official websites - http://www.tllm.org/ (video) and http://tllmi.com/ (audio). There you can watch and listen to many more messages by brother Daniel Rodes, Reuben Esh, Kevin Campbell and other preachers from TLLM.
Tom Deckard teaches on how to have God’s power and anointing in our life, speaking from his over 30 years experience. If you want to know how to get closer to the Lord and get God’s power in your life, this teaching will help you.
“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.” (Matthew 6:16-18)
Wrong teaching and wrong believing can be a detriment to anyone.
Fasting is to get you out of the way and let the Lord lead. When I am fasting, my discernment is way up and I know a lot about you - it pushes more into the supernatural than the natural world. He just reads “spirit” the reality of your life, where you are really living. I’m seeing you just as you are and that is what I can tell you. After the Holy Spirit comes upon a person he becomes another man.
Fasting must become a way of life. You have to bring yourself under a control. Fasting is humbling yourself before God, because we want to get closer to Him. I only fast because I have a purpose - getting closer to the Lord. Many go on fast to “make God do something.” Most think that we can force the hand of God - it does mean that you are getting closer to the Lord - and if you fast and pray that situation will eventually change. Once a year I set a time to spend with God 30 days or 40 days in fasting and prayer.
How do you know when the fast is over? When after you got rid of the appetite and fasten for a number of days you become hungry at the end of the fast.
Do not start with a 21 day fasts. Start with 1 day fast, 1 day a week, than work up to 2 days a week and then work yourself up to 3 days a week. Fasting is a way of life. It is not an elective. Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
Fasting helps the anointing, which breaks the yokes.
Denominations cause people to think, “I can’t go to that church, because I’m this [denomination].” Ephesians 2:19-22: “19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. ”
We are really out not to witness to unbelievers about Christ, but to convert other Christians to our way of thinking. If someone disagrees with you, doctrinally speaking, bear with them in love “to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” [Ephesians 4:13]. The same Spirit that is in the Baptists, is in the Pentecostals, in the Adventists, in Methodists, etc. “There is one body and one Spirit” (Ephesians 4:4).
Secular world believes that there are many truths. No, there is only one truth. It does not mean to have no distinctions. That is not what God is telling us to do. But He is telling us to be humble, gentle, bear with each other in love.
Oneness - the fact or state of being unified or whole, though comprised of two or more parts; harmony. If the Body of Christ can get to the place that we have true harmony, we’ll see great things happening.
I’m not talking about ecumenical movement, when they call us to get together and lay down our distinctions. I’m not talking to unite with the Pope and papacy. I’m talking about uniting with the Word of God, with Christ and with brothers and sisters in Christ, because we are all brought in the fellowship with God through Christ.
Christ’s prayer of intercession: “11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” (John 17:11, 16-23)
The world does not really believe our message because we are not unified. We are hard, strict and isolated, because we are not united with the Word. This Word is truth. It is not debatable.
“How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!” - Psalm 133:1. (” … is there anything so pleasant, as brethren dwelling in unity?” LXX).
We are conquered because we are divided. 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 “12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. Read the rest of this entry »
Christmas is a church tradition that celebrates and commemorates the miraculous event of birth of the Son of God from a virgin’s womb to save the world from sin. It is a festivity that continues to have a major impact on the commercial world as well as family gatherings and gifts giving. Many look forward to this year-end Christmas break even if the significance of the birth of the Christ child is not fully appreciated or embraced. The result is a much treasured and much loved holiday.
Objective of this Study
This review seeks fresh insights from the written account available in the Bible for a possible re-dating of Christ’s actual birth.
Given the weight of tradition and sentiment resting on December 25, it would not be unreasonable to encounter the axiom - “don’t confuse me with the facts; my mind is already made up.” Not withstanding that, allow me to respectfully invite you to an open review of the question: Was Jesus born on December 25 or at another time?
Many people acknowledge that Christ was not born on December 25. Even Sunday school children participating in nativity plays, especially as shepherds, realize that it would be much too cold for shepherds to be outdoors watching their flocks by night in the bleak mid-winter, even if it is only a milder winter in Israel. Read the rest of this entry »
At one time I visited at the John Hopkins institution, and submitted myself for this series of experiments. It was not sufficient to know that God did things, I had to know HOW God accomplished these things. But I prayed in my heart, “Lord God, if you will only let the Spirit of God come like the lightnings of God upon my soul for two seconds, I know something is going to happen that these men never saw before.”
I want to explain the assimilating power of your nature, your capacity to assimilate God and take the life of God into your being, and keep it in your being. I am not talking to you about what I believe. I am talking about what I know.
By John G. Lake
Chicago, 1920
“In Him was life, and life was the light of men.” (John 1:4)
There is a difference between Christianity and philosophy. (I presume some folks are inquiring why it is that there is always that keynote in my addresses.)
God gave me the privilege of living in the heart of philosophic South Africa, where we have one million five hundred thousand, who are ministered to by Buddhist, and Brahman priests. Every imaginable cult has its representatives there. I was amazed to discover that the whites were gradually assimilating the philosophy of the East, just as we Westerners are assimilating the philosophy of the East, and have been doing so for a long time.
When you take the philosophies, Christian Science, New Thought, and Unity today and examine them, you discover they are the same old philosophies of India, Egypt and China from time immemorial.
The difference between philosophy and religion, particularly the religion of Jesus Christ, is in the words I have quoted from the Scriptures, “In Him was Life, and the life was the light of men.” Philosophy is light. It is the best light the individual possessed who framed the philosophy. But it is not a LIFE GIVER.
But from the soul of Jesus there breathed holy, living life of God, that comes into the nature of man, quickens him by its power, and by the grace of God he has the life of Jesus in him, eternal life. Many of the ancient philosophies have a marvelous light. One of the Indian philosophies, Bhagavad, was written five hundred years before Isaiah. In it they predicted the coming of a Son of God, a Redeemer, who was to come and redeem mankind.
Buddha presented his philosophy five hundred years before Jesus. Pythagoras wrote four thousand years before Jesus Christ. In each one of them you will find many of the teachings of Jesus. The teachings of Jesus were not unique in that they were all new. They were new because they contained something that none of the rest possessed. It was the divine content in the word of Jesus Christ that gave His teachings their distinguishing feature from the other philosophies. That content (element) is the LIFE of God. “In Him was LIFE, and the LIFE was the light of men.”
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too little. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God…
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!1…
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
We know that colds are caused by viruses. What has humidity to do with those diseases?
Colder air is not able to hold as much water vapor as warm air. If we heat cold air the relative humidity will drop. When the outside air is near freezing it holds almost no moisture so we need to add water to the warmed air to keep our breathing system from becoming uncomfortable or even injured. Under extreme dry conditions most people experience a sense of dryness. This is a warning to us that we need more moisture in our body.
Мы знаем, что простуда вызвана вирусами. Какое отношение имеет влажность к этой болезни?
Более холодный воздух не в состоянии удержать так много водного пара, как теплый воздух. Если мы нагреем холодный воздух, то относительная влажность понизится. Когда температура воздуха на улице близка к нулю, воздух почти не содержит влажности. Таким образом, нам нужно добавить воду (пар) к воздуху, чтобы не допустить пересыхания и даже травмирования дыхательных органов. Read the rest of this entry »
Many think today that Christ came to do away with the law and the prophets.
Paul wrote to Timothy, “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word.” (2 Timothy 4:1-2).
