Matthew 12

Notes from Pastor Norm

Overview of chapter

Principle of Bible Study – When studying a chapter outline the chapter so you can see the flow of the chapter and keep all the parts in the immediate context.  I recommend that when you begin a study of a book you try to get a “forest” view of the book since this allows you to keep all the parts in the whole

I.  Plucking Grain on the Sabbath -  Matthew 12:1-8

II.  The Man with the withered hand – 9-14

III.   God’s Chosen Servant – 15-21

IV.  Jesus and Beelzebul – 22-32

V.  A Tree and its fruit -33-37

VI. About A Demand for a sign – 38-45

VII.  The True Kindred of Jesus – 46-50

Big Idea of Matthew 12

- (See Matthew 11:29,30) Matthew 12 highlights increasing tension between Jesus and religious leaders, focusing on the Sabbath, authority, and spiritual conflict. Jesus declares himself "Lord of the Sabbath" after defending his disciples for picking grain and healing a man’s hand on the Sabbath. He refutes claims that his power comes from Satan, warns against blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and defines his true family as those doing God’s will.

I.  Plucking Grain on the Sabbath - Matthew 12:1-8. – Read this passage, Ask the Holy Spirit to give you insight into the passage, and base a prayer on the passage. ( good to have music playing for three minutes while this is being read and prayed over.

1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads [of grain] and eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw [this,] they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath."  3 But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions, 4 how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? ((1 Sam 21:1–6; Lev 24:5–9) 5 "Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? (Num 28:9–10) 6 "But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here (Mt 22:41–45).7 "But if you had known what this means, 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT A SACRIFICE,'(Hos 6:6) you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 "For the Son of Man (Daniel 7:13,14, Psalm 80:17 ) is Lord of the Sabbath. "

"I desire mercy" | God seeks active, loving-kindness (hesed) towards others.

"Not sacrifice" | Rituals are not a substitute for ethical, obedient living.

"Knowledge of God" | An intimate, personal relationship rather than mere rituals.

"Not burnt offerings"| Heartfelt obedience is preferred over outward worship.

In the Old Testament, the Sabbath is identified as belonging to Yahweh (the LORD God), who instituted it as a holy day of rest (Exodus 20:8-11, Leviticus 23:3). However, Jesus specifically proclaims himself to be "Lord of the Sabbath" (Matthew 12:8, Mark 2:28, Luke 6:5), asserting his authority over its observance as the Creator and "Son of Man"

1.  John 1:1

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. ... 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. [Jhn 1:1-3, 14 NASB95]

2.  John 20:28

28 Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" [Jhn 20:28 NASB95]

3. Titus 2:13

13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, [Tit 2:13 NASB95]

4. 2 Peter 1:1

1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: [2Pe 1:1 NASB95]

5.  Hebrews 1:8

8 But of the Son [He says,] "YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER, AND THE RIGHTEOUS SCEPTER IS THE SCEPTER OF HIS KINGDOM. [Heb 1:8 NASB95]

6.  Romans 9:5

5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. [Rom 9:5 NASB95]

7.  Acts 20:28

28 "Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. [Act 20:28 NASB95]

8.  21 'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.' [Act 2:21 NASB95]

13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED." [Rom 10:13 NASB95]

32 And it hath come to pass, Every one who calleth in the name of Jehovah/Yahweh is delivered, For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there is an escape, As Jehovah/Yahweh hath said, And among the remnants whom Jehovah is calling! [Joe 2:32 YLT]

Jesus as God: The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus

by Murray J. Harris

II.  The Man with the withered hand – 9-14 - Read this passage, Ask the Holy Spirit to give you insight into the passage, and base a prayer on the passage.

9 Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And a man [was there] whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--so that they might accuse Him. 11 And He said to them, "What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 "How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." 13 Then He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" He stretched it out, and it was restored to normal, like the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against Him, [as to] how they might destroy Him. [Mat 12:9-14 NASB95]

Jesus taught that the Sabbath is a gift designed for human rest and well-being, not a burdensome legalistic restriction. As "Lord of the Sabbath," He emphasized doing good, healing, and spiritual restoration over strict prohibition of work. His doctrine focused on mercy, prioritizing human need over ceremonial.  Verse: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27).  The Sabbath teaches we are saved by God's grace and not our works (Hebrew 4)

III.   God’s Chosen Servant – 15-21 -  Read this passage, Ask the Holy Spirit to give you insight into the passage, and base a prayer on the passage.

15 But Jesus, aware of [this,] withdrew from there. Many followed Him, and He healed them all, 16 and warned them not to tell who He was. 17 [This was] to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: 18 "BEHOLD, MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN; MY BELOVED IN WHOM MY SOUL is WELL-PLEASED; I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM, AND HE SHALL PROCLAIM JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES. 19 "HE WILL NOT QUARREL, NOR CRY OUT; NOR WILL ANYONE HEAR HIS VOICE IN THE STREETS. 20 "A BATTERED REED HE WILL NOT BREAK OFF, AND A SMOLDERING WICK HE WILL NOT PUT OUT, UNTIL HE LEADS JUSTICE TO VICTORY. 21 "AND IN HIS NAME THE GENTILES WILL HOPE." [Mat 12:15-21 NASB95]

Jesus commanded people not to disclose his identity as the Messiah to manage public perception, avoid premature political rebellion against Rome, and ensure his ministry could continue until the appointed time of his death. This behavior, often called the "Messianic Secret," prevented misunderstandings, as many expected a military liberator rather than a spiritual savior.

Verses which reflect the “Messianic Secret”

·  Mark 1:34 - Jesus healed many but would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.

·  Mark 1:43-45 - After cleansing a leper, Jesus ordered him: "See that you tell no one anything".

·  Mark 3:11-12 - He strictly ordered spirits not to make him known.

·  Mark 5:43 - After raising Jairus' daughter, he "gave strict orders that no one should know about this".

·  Mark 7:36 - Jesus ordered people not to tell anyone about a healing.

·  Mark 8:29-30 - After Peter confesses Jesus is the Messiah, "Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about Him".

·  Mark 9:9 - Coming down from the Mount of Transfiguration, he ordered them to tell no one "until the Son of Man had risen from the dead".

·  Matthew 12:15-21 - After healing, Jesus ordered the crowd not to make him known, fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy of a humble, quiet servant.

·  Matthew 16:20 - Jesus explicitly warned the disciples not to tell anyone he was the Christ.

·  Luke 4:41 - He rebuked demons and would not allow them to speak because they knew he was the Christ.

·  Luke 8:56 - Similar to Mark 5, parents are told not to disclose a miracle.

·  Luke 9:21 - After Peter's confession, Jesus "strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one".

·  Mark 4:11-12 - Jesus mentions that the secret of the Kingdom is given to the disciples, but not to outsiders

Textual Variants:

Hebrew and LXX (Greek) of Isaiah 42:4

4 "He will not be disheartened or crushed Until He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law." [Isa 42:4 NASB95]

20 "A BATTERED REED HE WILL NOT BREAK OFF, AND A SMOLDERING WICK HE WILL NOT PUT OUT, UNTIL HE LEADS JUSTICE TO VICTORY. 21 "AND IN HIS NAME THE GENTILES WILL HOPE." [Mat 12:20-21 NASB95]


The LXX translators may have worked from a Hebrew manuscript that differed from the standardized MT, or interpreted the consonantal Hebrew text differently, reflecting a different Hebrew textual tradition. Interpretive Translation: The LXX often translates with an eye toward interpretation, translating "law" (Torah) in a way that emphasizes the functional outcome (hope/trust in the servant's name) for a Gentile audience (the Gentiles) rather than just "the isles".New Testament Usage: Matthew 12:21 quotes this passage, following the LXX's interpretation ("And in his name shall the Gentiles trust") to highlight Jesus' ministry to non-Jews.  Complementary Truths: Rather than contradicting, the texts can be seen as complementary. The "law" brings the hope, and the "name" is the object of that hope, reflecting both the Jewish context of the Law and the early church's focus on the Gospel name.

Isaiah 42:1-4 is the first of four "Servant Songs" in Isaiah, identifying a chosen, Spirit-empowered Servant who will bring justice to all nations with gentle strength rather than loud force. This passage is a direct prophecy of Jesus Christ, highlighting his role as a humble yet effective redeemer who cares for the weak and will surely succeed.

The four Servant Songs in Isaiah are specific poetic passages (Isaiah 42, 49, 50, and 52-53) detailing a chosen "Servant of the LORD" who brings justice, acts as a light to nations, suffers, and is ultimately exalted. These passages are commonly interpreted in Christianity as prophecies regarding the ministry, suffering, and victory of Jesus Christ.

Homework – Read Matthew 12:22-50, Ask for the Holy Spirit to reveal to you from the text, and base prayers inspired by the text. 

THE ANOINTING OF GOD: “Learn to Discern”

I John 2:18-20 NKJV

“Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.”

I John 2:26-27 NKJV

“These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”

Matthew 24:3-5 NKJV

“Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.”

Matthew 24:24-25 NKJV

“For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.”

Matthew 7:21-23 NKJV

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”

II Thessalonians 2:1-4 NKJV

“Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

Galatians 3:1-3 NKJV

“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?”

JOHN WESLEY: On, “Once Saved always Saved?”

“Calvinists, who deny that salvation can ever be lost, reason on the subject in a marvelous way...

They tell us, that somehow....

No virgin’s lamp can go out... (Matthew 25:8)

No branch in Christ can ever be cut off for unfruitfulness... (John 15:6)

No pardon can ever be forfeited... (Matthew 18:32)

They say that no name can be blotted out of God’s book!  (Revelation 3:5; Exodus 32:33)

That nobody can ever... “receive the grace of God in vain”... (2 Corinthians 6:1)

Nobody, or body of believers, can ever get so lukewarm that Jesus will spew them out of His mouth... (Revelation 3:16)

They use reams of paper to argue that if one ever got lost he was never found. (John 17:12)

that if one falls, he never stood. (Romans 11:16-22 and Hebrews 6:4-6)

if one was ever “cast forth,” he was never in, and “if one ever withered,” he was never attached to the vine and once green. (John 15:1-6)

that if one ever “falls away into spiritual darkness,” he was never enlightened. (Hebrews 6:4-6)

that if you “again get entangled in the pollutions of the world,” it shows that you never escaped. (2 Peter 2:20)

and if you make shipwreck of faith, there was no ship of faith there!! (1 Timothy 1:19)

In short they say: If you get it, you can’t lose it; and if you lose it you never had it.

May God SAVE US...

from accepting a doctrine that must be defended by such fallacious reasoning

Psalms 23:5 NKJV

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.”

John 14:16-18 NKJV

“…He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”

HOW TO NOT BE DECEIVED (learn to discern)

Genesis 3:1-7 NKJV

“Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.”

1. DON’T LISTEN TO THE ANTICHRIST 

II Corinthians 11:3-4 NKJV

“I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!”

Galatians 1:6-9 NKJV

“I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.”

2. TEST THE SPIRITS 

I John 4:1-4 NKJV

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

I Thessalonians 5:19-22 NKJV

“Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.”

I John 4:5-6 NKJV

“They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

1 Timothy 4:16

“Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.”

John 14:6-11 NKJV

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.”

John 1:1, 3-5, 14 NKJV

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

John 8:56-58 NKJV

“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

John 20:28-29 NKJV

“And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

3. TRUST THE PLANS OF GOD 

Jeremiah 29:11-14

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord…”

Jeremiah 17:9 NLT

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?”

I John 2:15-17 NKJV

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”

4. PRACTICE PRAYER 

Genesis 3:8-10 NKJV

“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

Genesis 3:11-12 NKJV

“And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:13 NKJV

“And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

James 4:4-10

“You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”

5. ABIDE IN THE TRUTH 

I John 2:27 NKJV

“… the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”

TRUTH (two or three witnesses)

1. THE SON (John 14:6)

2. THE SCRIPTURES (John 17)

3. THE SPIRIT (John 14)

I John 5:6 NKJV

“This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.”

John 8:31-32 NKJV

“Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

HOW TO NOT BE DECEIVED (learn to discern)

1.DONT LISTEN TO THE ANTICHRIST 

2TEST THE SPIRITS 

3.TRUST THE PLANS OF GOD 

4.PRACTICE PRAYER 

5.ABIDE IN THE TRUTH 

THE ANOINTING OF GOD: “The Oil Press of Purity”

THE ANOINTING OF GOD

                  1.             What is the Anointing?

                  2.             What is the purpose of the Anointing

                  3.             How do I access the Anointing?

                  4.             What is the cost of the Anointing?

                  5.             How do I protect the Anointing on my life from impurities?

                  6.             How do I restore the Anointing upon my life?

🔥THE ANOINTING OF GOD🔥

The Anointing of God is the nature and character of the Father that comes into  those who receive the Holy Spirit through devoted faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Anointing upon the believer empowers us to walk as Jesus walked with heavenly authority on earth over sinful flesh and every demonic spirit.

The Anointing of God reveals our holy identity, teaching us how to know Him as He flows through us to heal the brokenhearted and proclaim freedom to those who are oppressed.

The Anointing is the power and presence of Almighty God poured out upon all those who wait upon The Lord…

THE DISCIPLES AND THE ANOINTING

1. THE BREATH OF GOD - John 20:21-22

2. THE INNER ANOINTING OF GOD - Acts 2:1

3. THE OUTER ANOINTING OF GOD - Acts 2:2-4

THE ANOINTING OF GOD

INNER ANOINTING - In you

OUTER ANOINTING - Upon you

INNER ANOINTING - For your walk

OUTER ANOINTING - For your work

INNER ANOINTING - Teaches you

OUTER ANOINTING - Touches others

Matthew 26:36 NKJV

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.”

Exodus 30:25-32

“And you shall make from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment compounded according to the art of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil. With it you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting and the ark of the Testimony; the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense; the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base. You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them must be holy. And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister to Me as priests. “And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on man’s flesh; nor shall you make any other like it, according to its composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.”

Matthew 3:16-17,4:1

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased…”  Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

I John 2:18-20 NKJV

“Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.”

I John 2:26-27 NKJV

“These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”

 Ephesians 4:30

“…do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”

I Thessalonians 5:19-22 NKJV

“Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.”

John 2:13-17

“Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has consumed Me”

Psalm 69:7-9

“I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face. I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children; for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.”

KING SAUL & KING DAVID

1. Both anointed by God

2. Both waited on God

3. Both prophesied

4. Both trusted God in persecution

5. Both sinned greatly against God

6. One was restored to God

KING SAUL (1 Samuel 9-11)

1. Humbled himself before God

2. Anointed and kissed by God

3. Was changed by God

4. Waited on The Word of God (prophecies)

5. Humbles himself with his uncle

6. Trusted God in persecution

7. Defended those who persecuted him

I Samuel 9:21 NKJV

And Saul answered and said, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak like this to me?”

1 Samuel 10:1

“Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it over Saul’s head. He kissed Saul and said, “I am doing this because the Lord has appointed you to be the ruler over Israel, his special possession.”

1 Samuel 10:6-7

“The Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. Once these signs are fulfilled, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.”

I Samuel 10:27 NKJV

But some rebels said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.

I Samuel 13:4 NKJV

“Now all Israel heard it said that Saul had attacked a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel had also become an abomination to the Philistines. And the people were called together to Saul at Gilgal.”

KING SAUL

1. LOVED FEAR

I Samuel 13:5-8 NKJV

“Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits. And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.”

1 Samuel 13:9-14

So he (Saul) said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings.” And Saul offered up the burnt offering. Just as he finished making the offering, Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to greet him. “What have you done?” asked Samuel. Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash, I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.” “You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. But now your kingdom will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the Lord’s command.”

Psalm 62:5-6

“My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved.”

Psalm 25:5 NKJV

“Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.”

Isaiah 5:20-21

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.”

1 Samuel 15:12-13

Early in the morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel. There he has set up a monument in his own honor and has turned and gone on down to Gilgal.” When Samuel reached him, Saul said, “The Lord bless you! I have carried out the Lord’s instructions.”

PARTIAL OBEDIENCE PRECEEDS BUILDING A MONUMENT TO YOURSELF

I Samuel 15:17 NKJV

So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel?”

I Samuel 15:28 NKJV

So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.”

1 Samuel 16:7

… the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

I Samuel 16:14 NKJV

“… the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him.”

KING DAVID

1. LOVED THE MERCY OF GOD

Psalm 51:1-4 NKJV

Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight

Psalm 51:6-13 NKJV

“Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.”

5. How do I protect the Anointing on my life from impurities?

6. How do I restore the Anointing upon my life?

Micah 6:8 NKJV

He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God

Romans 12:1-2

“…I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

Lamentations 3:22-23 NKJV

“Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.”

THE ANOINTING OF GOD: “Keys to the outer Anointing”

Psalms 92:10

“Your anointing has made me strong and mighty. You’ve empowered my life for triumph by pouring fresh oil over me.”

1.     What is the Anointing?

2.     What is the purpose of the Anointing?

3.     How do I access the Anointing?

4.     What is the cost of the Anointing?

5.     How do I protect the Anointing on my life from impurities? 

6.     How do I restore the Anointing upon my life?

🔥THE ANOINTING OF GOD🔥

The Anointing of God is the nature and character of the Father that comes into those who receive the Holy Spirit through devoted faith in Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

The Anointing upon the believer empowers us to walk as Jesus walked with heavenly authority on earth over sinful flesh and every demonic spirit. 

The Anointing of God reveals our holy identity teaching us how to know Him as He flows through us to heal the brokenhearted and proclaim freedom to those who are oppressed. 

The Anointing is the power and presence of Almighty God poured out upon all those who wait upon The Lord…

THE DISCIPLES & THE ANOINTING 

1. THE BREATH OF GOD - John 20:21-22

2. THE INNER ANOINTING OF GOD - Acts 2:1

3. THE OUTER ANOINTING OF GOD - Acts 2:2-4

THE ANOINTING OF GOD 

INNER ANOINTING - In you 

OUTER ANOINTING - Upon you 

INNER ANOINTING - For your walk 

OUTER ANOINTING - For your work 

INNER ANOINTING - Teaches you 

OUTER ANOINTING - Touches others 

WHAT ARE KEYS TO THE OUTER ANOINTING?

Acts 1:4-8 NKJV

“And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

1. WAIT 

Isaiah 40:29-31 NKJV

“He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”

Ecclesiastes 8:2-3

“Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God. Do not be in a hurry to leave the king’s presence…”

2. BECOME ONE 

Acts 2:1-2 NKJV

“When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with ONE accord in ONE place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.”

John 17:20-23 NLT

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be ONE, just as you and I are ONE—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be ONE as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.”

THE GREAT SHEMA

Deuteronomy 6:4-6 NKJV

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is ONE! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.”

Ephesians 4:4-6

“There is ONE body and ONE Spirit, just as you were called to ONE hope when you were called; ONE Lord, one faith, ONE baptism; ONE God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

3. BREAK DOWN THE WALL 

Ephesians 2:14-15 NKJV

“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,”

John 20:19-20 NKJV

“Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”

Ephesians 4:1-3

“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”

Matthew 10:34 NKJV

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.”

Psalms 22:16-19 NKJV

“For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me. They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots. But You, O Lord, do not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help Me!”

Matthew 5:9 NKJV

“Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.”

John 20:21-22

“Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

Psalms 133:1-3 NKJV

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aaron, Running down on the edge of his garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, Descending upon the mountains of Zion; For there the Lord commanded the blessing— Life forevermore.”

THE ANOINTING OF GOD

Psalm 92:10

“Your anointing has made me strong and mighty. You’ve empowered my life for triumph by pouring fresh oil over me.”

                  1.              What is the Anointing?

                  2.              What is the purpose of the Anointing

                  3.              How do I access the Anointing?

                  4.              What is the cost of the Anointing?

                  5.              How do I protect the Anointing on my life from impurities?

                  6.              How do I restore the Anointing upon my life?

“WHEN I ANOINT YOU AND YOU ARE PERSECUTED, IT IS NOT YOU THEY PERSECUTE, BUT MY ANOINTING”

Psalm 92:9-10 NKJV

“For behold, Your enemies, O Lord, For behold, Your enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. But my horn You have exalted like a wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil.”

Luke 4:16-19

“Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

1. WHAT IS THE ANOINTING OF GOD?

Anoint: To smear

ANOINTING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

1. Holy Items & places

2. Kings

3. Prophets

4. Priests

Exodus 28:41 NKJV

“So you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as priests.”

I Samuel 16:13 NKJV

“Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.”

THE ANOINTING IS THE PRESENCE AND POWER OF GOD GIVEN THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT

2. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE ANOINTING?

A. IDENTITY

B. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL

C. TO HEAL THE BROKEN HEARTED

D. TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY

E. TO SET OPPRESSED FREE

F. TO PROCLAIM THE YEAR OF THE LORD

Luke 4:1 NKJV

“Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

Luke 4:14 NKJV

Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region

Acts 10:38 NKJV

“…God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”

THE DISCIPLES & THE ANOINTING

1. THE BREATH OF GOD - John 20:21-22

2. THE INNER ANOINTING OF GOD - Acts 2:1

3. THE OUTER ANOINTING OF GOD - Acts 2:2-4

Acts 2:1-4 NKJV

“When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.”

Acts 2:2-4 NKJV

“And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

INNER ANOINTING - In you

OUTER ANOINTING - upon you

INNER ANOINTING - For your walk

OUTER ANOINTING - For your work

INNER ANOINTING - Teaches you

OUTER ANOINTING - Transforms others 

Psalm 23:5 NKJV

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.”

Isaiah 10:27 NKJV

“It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.”

I John 2:20 NKJV

“But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.”

James 5:14-15 NKJV

“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”

3. HOW DO I ACCESS THE ANOINTING?

II Corinthians 1:21-22 NKJV

“Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.”

Acts 2:38-39 NKJV

“Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

4. WHAT IS THE COST OF THE ANOINTING?

Luke 4:22 NKJV

So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

Luke 4:24 NKJV

Then Jesus said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.”

Isaiah 53:3 NKJV

“He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.”

“WHEN I ANOINT YOU AND YOU ARE PERSECUTED, IT IS NOT YOU THEY PERSECUTE, BUT MY ANOINTING”

Luke 4:28-30 NKJV

“So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.”

PIC OF THE PRECIPICE IN NAZARETH

5. HOW DO I PROTECT THE ANOINTING ON MY LIFE FROM IMPURITIES?

I Samuel 15:28 NKJV

So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.”

I Samuel 16:14 NKJV

“… the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him.”

Ephesians 4:30-32 NKJV

“…do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”

I Thessalonians 5:19-22 NKJV

“Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.”

6. HOW DO I RESTORE THE ANOINTING UPON MY LIFE?

John 15:4-5 NKJV

“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

Piecing Together the End Times

ILLUSTRATION – putting a puzzle together?

Review – Ezekiel 38 – map from 2 weeks ago – changed to fit THIS WEEK!

STILL Missing – Israel dwelling securely in the land

2 Thessalonians 2:1–2 (CSB)

1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him: We ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to be easily upset or troubled, either by a prophecy or by a message or by a letter supposedly from us, alleging that the day of the Lord has come.

Piecing Together The End Times

1.     Jesus is coming back for his Church (Rapture)

Paul only in Thessalonica 3 weeks

1 Thessalonians 4:16–18 (CSB)

16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

2 Thessalonians 2:3–4 (CSB)

3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

Piecing Together The End Times

1.     Jesus is coming back for his Church (Rapture)

2.     A Great Apostasy comes first

3.     Man of Lawlessness (Antichrist/Coming World Leader) is revealed prior to the Rapture

Antichrist – Coming World Leader, the Beast, The Lawless One, The Prince who is to come

2 Thessalonians 2:4 (CSB)

4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

Piecing Together The End Times

1.     Jesus is coming back for his Church (Rapture)

2.     A Great Apostasy comes first

3.     Man of Lawlessness (Antichrist/Coming World Leader) is revealed prior to the Rapture

4.     The Coming World Leader desires to be worshiped

Exalts himself above every so-called god (Is 14:13-14; Ezekiel 28) – Rev 13

2 Thessalonians 2:4 (CSB)

4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

“sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God?”

Piecing Together The End Times

1.     Jesus is coming back for his Church (Rapture)

2.     A Great Apostasy comes first

3.     Man of Lawlessness (Antichrist/Coming World Leader) is revealed prior to the Rapture

4.     The Coming World Leader desires to be worshiped

5.     New Temple in Jerusalem will be built (3rd Temple)

3rd TEMPLE

SLIDE: Aerial View: Approx 36 acres;

SLIDE: multiple potential locations

SLIDE: Temple Institute – READY TO BUILD

Modern Sanhedrin re-established in 2004; 2016 named their first high priest

2 Thessalonians 2:3–4 (CSB)

3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

Daniel 9:27 (NIV84)

27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

Explain 7 – shabbuim or heptad (7 year period) – week is 7 days; a dozen is 12

Piecing Together The End Times

1.     Jesus is coming back for his Church (Rapture)

2.     A Great Apostasy comes first

3.     Man of Lawlessness (Antichrist/Coming World Leader) is revealed prior to the Rapture

4.     The Coming World Leader desires to be worshiped

5.     New Temple in Jerusalem will be built (3rd Temple)

6.     7 Year Covenant, [THE TRIBULATION] Midway is the Abomination of Desolation (Image of Antichrist in Temple)

NO SACRIFICES CURRENTLY

Written 539BC

Antiochus IV Epiphanes – Dec 16, 167 BC  (Greek ruler)

                                                                Image of Zeus in the Holy of Holies and sacrificed a pig on the altar

1 Maccabees – (not Biblical, but does provide historical account) – apostasy – forcing people to worship Greek Gods, pig sacrifices, etc

Caused a huge falling away – many Jews abandoned Biblical worship to follow the laws of the land.

Matthew 24:1–2 (CSB)

1 As Jesus left and was going out of the temple, his disciples came up and called his attention to its buildings. 2 He replied to them, “Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.”

2nd temple will be destroyed – not one stone left

Matthew 24:15–22 (CSB)

15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand), 16 “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17 A man on the housetop must not come down to get things out of his house, 18 and a man in the field must not go back to get his coat. 19 Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! 20 Pray that your escape may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 21 For at that time there will be great distress, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again. 22 Unless those days were cut short, no one would be saved. But those days will be cut short because of the elect.

3.5 YEARS

1260 DAYS

TIME, TIMES (DUO) HALF A TIME

HALF OF 7

2 Thessalonians 2:5–8 (CSB)

5 Don’t you remember that when I was still with you I used to tell you about this? 6 And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one now restraining will do so until he is out of the way, 8 and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and will bring him to nothing at the appearance of his coming.

The Restrainer is likely Michael the archangel (Daniel 12 in Midrash translate – Stand up – translated as Stand Aside - A Jewish scholar (Rashi) translate “stand up” as “stand aside” and in Midrash - assumes as much as it asks “you are silent? You do not defend my children” (From Pre-wrath Rapture of the church , Marvin Rosenthal).

(see also Job 32:16)

Not the Holy Spirit – nowhere does it say that the Holy Spirit is going to leave

2 Thessalonians 2:9–12 (CSB)

9 The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan’s working, with every kind of miracle, both signs and wonders serving the lie, 10 and with every wicked deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie, 12 so that all will be condemned—those who did not believe the truth but delighted in unrighteousness.

Piecing Together The End Times

1.     Jesus is coming back for his Church (Rapture)

2.     A Great Apostasy comes first

3.     Man of Lawlessness (Antichrist/Coming World Leader) is revealed prior to the Rapture

4.     The Coming World Leader desires to be worshiped

5.     New Temple in Jerusalem will be built (3rd Temple)

6.     7 Year Covenant, Midway is the Abomination of Desolation

7.    Deceptive signs and Wonders

8.    A Strong Delusion is coming

So many delusions!

SLIDE Transgender - Yale School of Medicine

“Every cell has a sex”

EVOLUTION

WHAT DELUSION IS PAUL TALKING ABOUT?

2 Thessalonians 2:11–12 (CSB)

11 For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie, 12 so that all will be condemned—those who did not believe the truth but delighted in unrighteousness.

UFO’S?

SLIDE: The Age of Disclosure Movie 2025

An unprecedented film -featuring 34 senior U.S. Government insiders- that reveals an 80 year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer advanced technology of non-human origin.

Revelation 13:11–18 (CSB)

11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. 13 It also performs great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in front of people. 14 It deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 It was permitted to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 And it makes everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of its name.

18 This calls for wisdom: Let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, because it is the number of a person. Its number is 666.

Piecing Together The End Times

1.     Jesus is coming back for his Church (Rapture)

2.     A Great Apostasy comes first

3.     Man of Lawlessness (Antichrist/Coming World Leader) is revealed prior to the Rapture

4.     The Coming World Leader desires to be worshiped

5.     New Temple in Jerusalem will be built (3rd Temple)

6.     7 Year Covenant, Midway is the Abomination of Desolation

7.     Deceptive signs and Wonders

8.     A Strong Delusion is coming

9.    The Beast/World Leader will appear to die/be resurrected

10.  Image of the Beast/World Leader can speak and enforce laws

11.  Mark of the Beast – you can’t buy or sell without it

Revelation 1:1–3 (CSB)

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, whatever he saw. 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep what is written in it, because the time is near.

WHAT IMAGE DO THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE PRESENT?

JESUS!

Revelation 5:5 (CSB)

5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered so that he is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Revelation 19:6-16 (CSB)

6 Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying,

Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty,

reigns!

7 Let us be glad, rejoice, and give him glory,

because the marriage of the Lamb has come,

and his bride has prepared herself.

8 She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure.

For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints.

9 Then he said to me, “Write: Blessed are those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb!” He also said to me, “These words of God are true.” 10 Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold firmly to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

11 Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. Its rider is called Faithful and True, and with justice he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a fiery flame, and many crowns were on his head. He had a name written that no one knows except himself. 13 He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. 14 The armies that were in heaven followed him on white horses, wearing pure white linen. 15 A sharp sword came from his mouth, so that he might strike the nations with it. He will rule them with an iron rod. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty. 16 And he has a name written on his robe and on his thigh: King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

John 14:1–6 (NIV84)

1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”

5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 24:1–51 (ESV)

1 Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2 But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” 4 And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. 10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, 18 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 19 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 20 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 22 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand. 26 So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27 For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 34 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. 42 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 47 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know 51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Revelation 6 (ESV)

1 Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”

7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.

9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. 10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

THRU THE BIBLE “Spiritual Breakthrough” (Matthew 9:1-38)

Matthew 9:1 NKJV

So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own city.

Joshua 3:3-4 NKJV

“…When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.”

Matthew 9:2 NKJV

Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.”

1. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through paralysis

Psalm 32:1 NKJV

“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.”

James 5:16 NKJV

“Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”

2. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through confession of sin

Matthew 9:3-8  NKJV

And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!”

But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” And he arose and departed to his house. Now when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such power to men.”

3. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through physical obedience

Matthew 9:9 NKJV

“As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.”

Luke 5:27-28 NKJV

“…He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he left all, rose up, and followed Him.”

4. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through letting go

Matthew 9:10 NKJV

“Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.”

5. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through exposure to light

Matthew 9:11-13 NKJV

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

6. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through loving  mercy

Romans 2:4 NLT

“Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?”

Matthew 9:14-17 NKJV

Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

7. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through Grace

Matthew 9:18-22 NKJV

While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live.” So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His disciples. And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.” But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.”

8. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through Faith

Luke 8:47 NKJV

“Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.”

James 4:8 NKJV

“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you…”

Matthew 9:23-26 NKJV

“When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing, He said to them, “Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.” And they ridiculed Him. But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. And the report of this went out into all that land.”

9. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through ridicule

Matthew 9:27-31 NKJV

“When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!” And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, “See that no one knows it.” But when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in all that country.”

10. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through crying out!

Matthew 9:32-34 NKJV

“As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed. And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, “It was never seen like this in Israel!” But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.”

11. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through submission to the Holy Spirit

Matthew 9:35-38 NKJV

“Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

12. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through sharing your faith

🔥SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH 🔥

1.        SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through paralysis

2.        SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through confession of sin

3.        SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through physical obedience

4.        SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through  letting go

5. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through exposure to light

6. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through loving  mercy

7. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through Grace

8. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through Faith

9. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through ridicule

(Make room…)

10. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through crying out!

11. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through submission

12. SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH comes through sharing your faith

THE KINGDOM MIND IN A FALLEN WORLD

Philippians 2:5 NKJV

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus…”

WWJD 1990 PIC

“MIND”-FIELDS IN THE CHURCH TODAY 

THE BIPOLAR CLUB 

1. Grace & Law 

2. Salvation 

3. Spiritual gifts 

4. Spiritual Warfare 

5. End-time events 

“MIND”-FIELDS IN THE WORLD TODAY 

RELIGION -RACE- POLITICS -SEX

“If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!"

Brother Yun

Matthew 22:15

“Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.”

Matthew 22:20-21

And Jesus asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

THE BIBLICAL WORLD VIEW 

1. CREATION 

2. REBELLION 

3. REDEMPTION

4. RESTORATION 

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“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”

Alistair Crowley

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PICS OF PRINCESS DIANA

Joshua 5:13-15

“Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?” The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

Philippians 2:5 NKJV

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus…”

1 Corinthians 2:11-12 

“…no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.”

1 Corinthians 2:13

This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 

1 Corinthians 2:14

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 

1 Corinthians 2:15

The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”

Romans 12:1-2

“…I beseech you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

OUR PRAYER TODAY 

Psalm 139:23-24 KJV

“Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.”

THE KINGDOM MIND OF CHRIST 

Philippians 2:5-7 NKJV

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men”

Philippians 2:1-4 NIV

“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

"It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. When we arrive at the end of our own strength it is not defeat, but the start of tapping into God's boundless resources”

Brother Yun

Philippians 2:8 KJV

“and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”

Micah 6:8

“He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?”

Philippians 2:9-11 KJV

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Hebrews 12:25-29 NKJV

“See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.”

Iran and the last days

Torah Reading

Deuteronomy 25:17–19 (ESV)

17 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, 18 how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. 19 Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

The Haftarah (Prophetic Reading)

1 Samuel 15:2–3 (ESV)

2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

Saul failed to execute Agag, the Amalekite king.

          An Amalekite ended up killing Saul

500 years later, 16 generations later, an Amalekite by the name of Haman was born.

Haman was a govt official living in the kingdom of Persia.

Haman, King’s right hand man, everyone to bow before him, Mordecai, a Jew, wouldn’t bow. Haman infuriated and wanted to destroy all Jews. Asked the Persian king to make the law

Esther 3:13 (ESV)

13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

Haman ends up being executed on the same gallows he had created to execute Mordecai

TIMING OF THIS WAR -DIRECTLY COINCIDES WITH READING OF BOOK OF ESTHER AND COMMAND TO EXECUTE  AMALAKITES,  AGAG AND HAMAN

PURIM

Haman – descendent of Agag – (aka, amalakite)

War began (Ayatollah assassinated) on Saturday – Shabbat Zachor – “sabbath of remembrance” – word for the day about Amalek – wiping out the mention of his name

Also read that day – God’s word for Saul to wipe out Amalek

Haman sought the annihilation of Jewish people – just like Ayatollah

Haman builds gallows to execute Mordecai but same gallows used to execute Haman

Nuclear reactors built by Ayatollah (to kill Israel) – reason for Trump’s war on him.

Ayatollah slogan – Death to America, Death to Israel

Jeremiah 49:34–39 (ESV)

34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. 35 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might. 36 And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come. 37 I will terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, my fierce anger, declares the Lord. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them, 38 and I will set my throne in Elam and destroy their king and officials, declares the Lord. 39 “But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the Lord.”

1979 only 500 Muslim background Believers living in Iran (Christians)

Millions of Shia Muslims have left and become Christians – more than any other Middle Eastern nation – “GOD SET HIS THRONE THERE”

IRAN Eschatology – 12th Imam

Sunnis constitute approximately 85–90% of the Muslim population (about 1.7–1.8 billion), while Shia Muslims make up about 10–15% (200–300 million). Sunni Islam is the dominant branch worldwide, with majorities in most countries, while Shia populations are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, and Azerbaijan

IRAN against Saudis

2 targets – Israel and US (Great Satan, Little Satan)

Iran has attacked:

            Turkey

            Lebanon

            Cyprus

            Qatar

            Iraq

            Kuwait

            Saudi Arabia

            UAE

            Oman

            Bahrain

            Azerbaijan

Iran – Persia/Elam in the Bible

            Multiple prophecies – Jer 49:34-39

                        Ezekiel 38-39

            Iran’s theology – Muslim – Shia, opposed to Sunni unless working together to overthrow Israel

            Looking for the 12th Imam, the Mahdi (their Christ figure)

            They believe the Mahdi will appear when the world is burning, being destroyed

            They feel they may be called to blow up the place to usher in the Mahdi

            View US as the Great Satan and Iran as the Little Satan

Ezekiel 38:1–6 (ESV)

1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him 3 and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 4 And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. 5 Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 6 Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—many peoples are with you.

Gog – title/king;

MAP – includes Persia (Iran)

Ezekiel 38:4 (ESV)

4 And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords.

Hooks in the jaws (v. 4) God forcing Russia into the battle

Great host (army)

Ezekiel 38:7–9 (ESV)

7 “Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. 8 After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them. 9 You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

v. 8 – regathered – land had been continual waste

VERSES PREDICTING ISRAEL BEING REGATHERED AS A NATION

Isaiah 11:11–12 (ESV)

11 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea. 12 He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Jeremiah 31:7-9, 31-33, 35-38; Ezekiel 36-37

ISRAEL – will remain as long as sun and moon

Amos 9:14–15 (ESV)

14 I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. 15 I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the Lord your God.

Jeremiah 31:35–36 (ESV)

35 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name: 36 “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the Lord, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.”

Isaiah 66:8 (ESV)

8 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day?  Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment?

May 14, 1948

Ezekiel 38:10-13 (ESV)

10 “Thus says the Lord God: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme 11 and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’ 12 to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth. 13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’

Coming for spoil –

MAP OF ALLIANCES

MAP – of invaders compare with

Map of Diplomatic ties post Abraham Accords

Ezekiel 38:14-16 (ESV)

14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord God: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it? 15 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. 16 You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

Dwelling securely –

Israel – dealt with Gaza, dealing with Iran, also bombing Lebanon/ Hezbollah

Great army – “like a cloud covering the land”

God deliver Israel – God get the credit

Ezekiel 38:17-23 (ESV)
17 “Thus says the Lord God: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them? 18 But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord God, my wrath will be roused in my anger. 19 For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. 21 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Lord God. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur. 23 So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Iron Dome? Something more – torrential rains, hailstones, fire and sulfur

Ezekiel 39:1–6 (ESV)

1 “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 2 And I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel. 3 Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand. 4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 5 You shall fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. 6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

God dealing – fire upon Magog and “those who dwell securely in the coastlands”

Ezekiel 39:7–8 (ESV)

7 “And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. 8 Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord God. That is the day of which I have spoken.

Ezekiel 39:9–10 (ESV)

9 “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, 10 so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.

Make fires with the weapons and burn them – for 7 years? Nuclear?

Ezekiel 39:11–16 (ESV)

11 “On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog. 12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that I show my glory, declares the Lord God. 14 They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make their search. 15 And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog. 16 (Hamonah is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

v. 14 – select professionals to clean up the waste (nuclear radioactive)

Ezekiel 39:21–22 (ESV)

21 “And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. 22 The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.

Open the eyes of Israel

144,000 Jews saved during the Tribulation – is this what God uses?

SKIP?

Ezekiel 39:25–29 (ESV)

25 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name. 26 They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid, 27 when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. 28 Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. 29 And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 38 – Israel dwelling securely in the land, unwalled villages

2 Main End Times Views

            Pre-Tribulation Rapture – believe things are going to get worse, Christians raptured (caught up to heaven), nothing else needs happen before the Rapture.

            Pre-Wrath or Post Tribulation Rapture View – things are going to get worse, we are going to go through at least part of the Tribulation, then after temple desecrated – rapture

LESSER VIEWS

                        Dominionist – Christians going to gain more and more influence and Christianize the world prior to Christ coming back

                        No rapture -

WHAT ABOUT THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY?

OPTIONS

1.     Not listed (therefore disabled prior or tied up so as not to support Israel)

2.     Referred to as the “coastlands” in Ezekiel 38 – and receive “fire down upon”

3.     Referred to as Babylon or Daughter of Babylon (Revelation 17-18, Jeremiah 50-51)

SO WHAT?

Are you ready to meet Jesus?

1 John 3:1–3 (NIV84)

1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

Are you prepared for difficult times?

            War could be over quickly – and non-event for us in the US

            OR

            Cyber attack

            Power outage/EMP (nuclear bomb detonated couple hundred miles in atmosphere)

            Societal chaos

Proverbs 27:12 (NLT)

12 A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

PREPARED ROUND TABLE GROUP – THIS SATURDAY, 8AM AT THE J-HOUSE

John 14:1–3 (NIV84)

1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

Luke 21:25–32 (ESV)

25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

29 And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. 30 As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. 31 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. 32 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place.

ABIDING DISCIPLESHIP: “What God Is Saying Right Now”

Matthew 24:3 NKJV

“…the disciples came to Him privately, saying, ‘Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?’ ”

Revelation 3:22 NKJV

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Matthew 24:4-5 NKJV

And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.”

WHAT GOD IS SAYING RIGHT NOW

Take Heed! (Pay close attention to)

1. THE DECEPTION OF FOLLOWING MAN AS GOD

II Thessalonians 2:3-4 NKJV

“Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

I John 4:1-3 NKJV

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.”

I Corinthians 14:29 NKJV

“Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.”

Matthew 24:6-7 NKJV

“And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”

WHAT GOD IS SAYING RIGHT NOW

Take Heed! (Pay close attention to)

2. THE DECEPTION OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

Romans 3:10-12

As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous— not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.”

Isaiah 64:6

“We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags.”

II Corinthians 5:20-21 NKJV

“…we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

WHAT GOD IS SAYING RIGHT NOW

Take Heed! (Pay close attention to)

1. THE DECEPTION OF FOLLOWING MAN AS GOD

2. THE DECEPTION OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

TAKE HEED (play close attention to)

 THE SNARE OF SATAN

TAKE HEED TO (play close attention to)

THE KINGDOM OF GOD

II Chronicles 7:10-15 NKJV

“On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the good that the Lord had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel. Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king’s house; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the Lord and in his own house. Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.”

WHAT GOD IS SAYING RIGHT NOW

1. HUMBLE YOURSELF

2. PRAY

3. SEEK MY FACE

4. TURN FROM YOUR SIN

THIS IS WHY GOD IS SPEAKING TO US

1. GOD DESIRES TO HEAR US

2. GOD DESIRES TO FORGIVE US

3. GOD DESIRES TO HEAL US (Our Land)

THRU THE BIBLE:“BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS!” Matthew 7:15-29

Matthew 7:15 NKJV

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

“Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong; it is knowing the difference between right and almost right."

Charles Spurgeon

CONTEXT

Matthew 7:13-15

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

BEWARE!!!

A command from The Good Shepherd

1. AWARENESS (see)

2. APPEARANCE (recognize)

3. AGENDA (define)

4. ASSESSMENT (judge)

5. ACCOUNT (know)

1. AWARENESS (see)

II Timothy 4:3-5 NKJV

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”

I Timothy 4:1 NKJV

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,”

I Timothy 4:16 NKJV

“Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.”

Jeremiah 14:14-16

Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds. Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine. And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.”

2. APPEARANCE (recognize)

Matthew 7:15 NKJV

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

3. AGENDA (define)

“they are ravenous wolves.”

Acts 20:29 NKJV

“For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.”

John 10:10 NKJV

“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.”

II Thessalonians 2:3 NKJV

“Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,”

II Thessalonians 2:11-12 NKJV

“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

4. ASSESSMENT (Judge)

Matthew 7:16-18 NKJV

“You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.”

Throwing the word, “Grace” at a thistle will not make it a grape.

Jude 1:3-4

“Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”

I Corinthians 5:12-13 NKJV

“For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”

5. ACCOUNT (Know)

Matthew 7:19-20 NKJV

“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”

Matthew 21:18-19 NKJV

“Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” Immediately the fig tree withered away.”

Galatians 1:8-9

“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!”

Matthew 7:21 NKJV

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.”

Matthew 7:22-23 NKJV

“Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

THE SUMMARY OF THE SERMON OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

Matthew 7:24-27 NKJV

“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.””

Matthew 7:28-29 NKJV

“And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.”

A TRUE PROPHET                                                                             

1. SPEAKS THE WHOLE TRUTH

2. POINTS TO JESUS

3. PRACTICES WHAT HE PROPHESIES

4. BEARS FRUIT THAT LASTS

Acts 20:17-19 NKJV

“From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church. And when they had come to him, he said to them: “You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, in what manner I always lived among you, serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials…”

Acts 20:27 NKJV

“For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.”

Jeremiah 3:15 NKJV

I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

ABIDING DISCIPLESHIP: “How to be Hated for Jesus’ Sake”

Matthew 10:22 NKJV

“…you will be hated by all for My name’s sake.”

Matthew 10:16-22 NKJV

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues. You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. “Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.”

SAVED:  Greek - Sozo-which means to save, heal, deliver, or make whole.

Matthew 27:46 NKJV

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Philippians 3:10-11 NLT

“I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!”

REMEMBER PETER:  “Healer” to “Convict”

Acts 3:6-8 NKJV

Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God.”

Acts 4:1-3 NKJV

“Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.”

THE GREAT FIRE OF ROME

July 18-19,  AD 64

POPE LEO

“Someone who says they’re pro-life but are supportive of the death penalty is not pro-life. Someone who supports pro-life and supports inhuman treatment of illegal immigrants is not pro-life”

Luke 6:26 NKJV

“Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.”

CHOOSE:

Accepted by the world and rejected by God

OR

ACCEPTED BY GOD AND REJECTED BY THE WORLD

REMEMBER STEPHEN: “Deacon” to “Heretic”

PREPARE TO MEET

HATE-THEIST

Acts 7:54-60 NKJV

When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Matthew 10:22 NKJV

“…you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.”

REMEMBER JESUS:  “Hosanna” to “Crucify!”

Matthew 21:9-11 NKJV

Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Hosanna in the highest!” And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?” So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”

Matthew 21:12-13 NKJV

“Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”

Matthew 27:22 NKJV

Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!”

HOW TO BE HATED FOR JESUS’ SAKE

1. REMEMBER THE WORD

John 15:20 NKJV

“Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.”

2. REMEMBER THE VERDICT

John 3:19-21

“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”

3. REMEMBER THE LOVE OF GOD

I John 3:1-3 NKJV

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”

4. REMEMBER THE JOY OF CALVARY

Hebrews 12:2-3

“Fix your eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”

Luke 23:33-34 NKJV

“And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”

5. REMEMBER THE HOLY SPIRIT

Luke 23:46 NKJV

And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ ” Having said this, He breathed His last.

John 20:21-22 NKJV

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

Matthew 10:19-20 NKJV

“But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.”

ABIDING DISCIPLESHIP: “Dealing with demons”part 7 - How to cast out demons

Matthew 10:1 NKJV

“And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out…”

Mark 16:17 NKJV

“And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons…”

Matthew 12:28 NKJV

“… if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.”

DELIVERANCE 101 IS SELF DELIVERANCE

1. Repent

2. Renounce

3. Rebuke

REMOVE LEGAL RIGHTS

1. REPENT

James 4:7 NKJV

“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

James 4:8-10 NKJV

“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”

2. RENOUNCE

II Corinthians 6:16-18 NKJV

“And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.” Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” “I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.””

3. REBUKE

Luke 4:35 NKJV

But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

THE DOMINION DECLARATION

PSALM 18:3

I WILL CALL UPON THE LORD, WHO IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED; SO SHALL I BE SAVED FROM MY ALL MY ENEMIES

Joshua 1:3

“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you…”

CASTING OUT DEMONS

1. AUTHORITY

&

2. POWER

AUTHORITY comes from being under authority

POWER comes from recognizing you are powerless

Luke 10:18-19 NKJV

And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Joshua 1:9 NKJV

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

CASTING OUT DEMONS

1. AUTHORITY

&

2. POWER

Isaiah 59:19-20 NKJV

“So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in, like a flood The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. “The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” Says the Lord.”

I Samuel 17:45 NKJV

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.”

I John 1:6-7 NKJV

“If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

AUTHORITY & POWER

Mark 1:21-27 NKJV

“…they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and taught. And they were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. Now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!” And when the unclean spirit had convulsed him and cried out with a loud voice, he came out of him. Then they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him.”

Luke 8:26-27 NKJV

“Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs.”

Luke 8:28 NKJV

“When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!”

Luke 8:29 NKJV

“For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.”

Acts 16:18 NKJV

“And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.”

Luke 8:30 NKJV

Jesus asked him, saying, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion,” because many demons had entered him.”

Luke 8:31 NKJV

“And they begged Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss.”

Luke 8:32-33 NKJV

“Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain. So they begged Him that He would permit them to enter them. And He permitted them. Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned.”

Luke 11:24-26 NKJV

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.”

Luke 8:34-37 NKJV

“When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. They also who had seen it told them by what means he who had been demon-possessed was healed. Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. And He got into the boat and returned.”

Colossians 2:13-15 NKJV

“And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.”

Matthew 17:19-21 NKJV

“Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” So Jesus said to them, “Because of your 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. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.””

Joshua 5:13-14 NKJV

“And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?” So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”

Joshua 5:15 NKJV

Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.”

Joshua 6:1-5 NKJV

“Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor. You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat.

Pastor Dave Praying with a guide in Jericho

Joshua 6:14 NKJV

“And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days.”

I John 2:6 NKJV

“He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.”

Joshua 6:15-16, 20-21 NKJV

“But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city! So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.”

Luke 10:18-19 NKJV

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Luke 10:20 NKJV

“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

Romans 8:37-39 NKJV

“… we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

The Undivided Life: Matthew 6:25-34

What is causing you anxiety?

What is keeping you up at night?

What are you worried about?

Matthew 6:25-34

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will

drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more

than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,

and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?7 28 And why are

you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor

spin,

29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 But if God

so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will

he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying,

‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What

shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows

that you need them all.

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these

things will be added to you.

34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.

Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Main point: Jesus provides “All these things”

●Do not worry about the cares of this life.

●God is a good Father and Provider.

●Trust God: Seek HIS kingdom…. And all these things will be added!

Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or

you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Why don’t we trust him?Matthew 13:22: As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the

cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Why don’t we trust him?

○ We don't see him as a good father.

○ We don't think he cares, is able, or will provide.

○ We think we can do it ourselves.

Matthew 6:25: “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what

you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body

more than clothing?

Anxious: Worried, to be troubled with cares, divided and distracted.

John 4:13: “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.”

Psalm 102:25-26: Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will

change them like a robe, and they will pass away.

Hebrews 4:15: For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our

weaknesses..

Matthew 6:26 “ Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and

yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”

Deuteronomy 8:18: You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to

get wealth,

A.W. Tozer: “God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that he can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature.”

Matthew 6:27: “ And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?”

Matthew 6: 28-30: “ And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how

they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was notarrayed like one of these.

30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”

Romans 14:23: For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Matthew 6: 31-32: “Therefore do not be anxious, saying,

‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we

drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.”

1 Peter 5:7: Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Matthew 6:33-34: 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these

things will be added to you.

34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

John 15:4: Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in

the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

Luke 10:42: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is

necessary.Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.

”

Hebrews 12:1-2: Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter

of our faith.

We desire ___, but Jesus is___.

○ Life- Jesus gives us eternal life

■ John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

○ Bread- Bread of Life

■ John 6:35 “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

○ Drink- spring of water

■ John 4:14 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

We desire ___, but Jesus is___.

○ Body/health- redeemed body, part of body of Christ, temple of the Holy Spirit

■ Philippians 3: 20-21:”will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body… ”

○ Shelter- He is our shelter

■ Psalm 27:5 For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.

○ Put on/clothing- Clothed in Christ

■ Galatians 3:27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

A.W. Tozer: “The man who has God for his treasure has all things on One… Whatever he may lose, he has actually lost nothing, for he now has all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately,

and forever.”

Psalm 145:16: You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.Application

In what areas is your mind divided?

In what ways can I further seek his Kingdom?

How can I remember God’s faithfulness?

Luke 12: 32: “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not

grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no

moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

35 “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are waiting

for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at

once when he comes and knocks.

37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you,

he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve

them.

ABIDING DISCIPLESHIP: “Dealing with demons” part 6

SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY Begins with the spiritual birth

John 3:5-6 NKJV

“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”

JESUS

SPIRITUAL BIRTHRIGHT

1. IDENTITY

2. PURPOSE

3. AUTHORITY

John 1:12-13 NKJV

“…as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

THE SPIRITUAL BIRTH

A New Identity

A Divine Purpose

A Royal Authority

THE MOMENT OF BIRTH

- YOUR NEW IDENTITY

- YOUR DIVINE PURPOSE

- YOUR ROYAL AUTHORITY

THE CONCEPTION OF CONFESSION

Matthew 16:13-19 NKJV

When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

WHEN DEALING WITH DEMONS

1. YOUR NEW IDENTITY

2. YOUR DIVINE PURPOSE

3. YOUR ROYAL AUTHORITY

THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Revelation 3:20-22 NKJV

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Hebrews 4:14-16 NKJV

“Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

Zechariah 3:6-7 NKJV

Then the Angel of the Lord admonished Joshua, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘If you will walk in My ways, And if you will keep My command, Then you shall also judge My house, And likewise have charge of My courts; I will give you places to walk Among these who stand here.”

I Corinthians 6:2-3 NKJV

“Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?”

BINDING & LOOSING

John 20:21-23

Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

THE CONFESSION

&

THE MISSION

Joshua 1:1-2 NKJV

After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel.”

Joshua 1:3 NKJV

“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.”

Joshua 1:4 NKJV

“From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.”

Matthew 16:18 NKJV

“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”

Jude 1:22-23

“Be merciful to those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.”

Joshua 1:5 NKJV

“No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.”

Joshua 1:6 NKJV

“Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.”

Joshua 1:7 NKJV

“Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.”

Joshua 1:8 NKJV

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”

Joshua 1:9 NKJV

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 1:10-11 NKJV

Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, “Pass through the camp and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three days you will cross over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’ ”

Matthew 28:18-20 NKJV

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.”

BEWARE OF THE SPIRIT OF CONDEMNATION & MOCKERY

Jeremiah 31:29-34 NKJV

“In those days they shall say no more: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

🔥The child of light that displaces the darkness of demons is fueled with the forgiveness of God

ABIDING DISCIPLESHIP: “Dealing with demons” pt5

‭Exodus‬ ‭20‬:‭4‬-‭6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”

EXODUS 20?

GENERATIONAL CURSES?

OR

GENERATIONAL INFLUENCE?

I Samuel 16:14 NKJV

“But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him.”

II Corinthians 12:7 NKJV

“And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.”

Revelation 2:20-23 NKJV

“Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.”

EXODUS 20:4-6?

-GENERATIONAL CURSES?

-GENERATIONAL INFLUENCE?

-GENERATIONAL BAGGAGE?

Ephesians 4:27 NIV

“… do not give the devil a foothold.”

I Timothy 4:16 NKJV

“Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.”

Psalms 14:1 NKJV

“…There is no God…”

Psalms 14:1 NKJV

“The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God…”

RULE OF FIRST MENTION

Genesis 3:14 NKJV

So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.”

Genesis 3:17-18 NKJV

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you

EXODUS 20:4-6 CONTEXT

V1-17 GIVING OF THE LAW

Exodus 20:18 NKJV

“Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.”

PENTECOST: CONTRAST OF LAW VS GRACE 

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THE GIVING OF THE LAW

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 28:2, 15 NKJV

“And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God: “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:”

Ezekiel 18:2-4 NKJV

“What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge’? “As I live,” says the Lord God, “you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel. “Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die.”

Nehemiah 1:5-7 NKJV

“And I said: “I pray, Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments, please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned. We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded..”

John 9:2-3 NKJV

And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.”

Mark 9:20-22 NKJV

“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. So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 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.”

Matthew 27:25 NKJV

And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.”

Ezekiel 18:19-20 NKJV

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the guilt of the father?’ Because the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes and observed them, he shall surely live. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.”

LAW VS GRACE

Acts 19:13-17 NKJV

“Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Exodus 20:5-6

I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”

Galatians 3:13-14 NKJV

“Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

Zechariah 3:1-5 NKJV

“Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him. And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel. Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Take away the filthy garments from him.” And to him He said, “See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes.” And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head, and they put the clothes on him. And the Angel of the Lord stood by.”

Galatians 3:1-3 NKJV

“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?”

Zechariah 3:7 NKJV

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘If you will walk in My ways, And if you will keep My command, Then you shall also judge My house, And likewise have charge of My courts; I will give you places to walk Among these who stand here.”

Joshua 1:1-3 NKJV

“After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you..”

John 8:31-32, 36 NKJV

“Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

“…if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”

ABIDING DISCIPLESHIP: “Dealing with demons” pt4

I Timothy 4:1 NKJV

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,”

1. THE FALLING AWAY

2. DECEIVING SPIRITS

3. DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

4. OUR DEFENSE (The Righteous Repellent)

1. THE FALLING AWAY

II Thessalonians 2:1-3 NKJV

“Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first..”

Revelation 3:1 NKJV

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.”

The Church of Laodicea

Revelation 3:15-16 NKJV

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”

2. DECEIVING SPIRITS

II Corinthians 11:12-15 NKJV

“But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.”

DECEIVING SPIRITS DIVIDE

Titus 3:9-11

“But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. You may be sure that such people are warped and sinful; they are self-condemned.”

WARPED: to be turned inside out," "twisted," or "distorted". 

Romans 16:17-18 NKJV

“Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.”

Jude 1:3-4

“Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”

Jude 1:8, 11-13, 16-19 NKJV

“Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.”

John MacArthur’s books

Charismatic Chaos and Strange fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH05S53QlY0

1 Timothy 5:19-20

“Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses. But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning.”

I Corinthians 5:1-5 NKJV

“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”

I Timothy 1:18-20 NKJV

“This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.”

I Peter 4:17 NKJV

“For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God…”

3. DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

I Timothy 4:16 NKJV

“Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.”

Ephesians 4:27 NIV

“… do not give the devil a foothold.”

Korean Flight 007 from NY to Seoul, in 1983

DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

-HEBREW ROOTS GOSPEL

-GOD ALWAYS HEALS GOSPEL

-UNIVERSALISM GOSPEL

- 12 STEP GOSPEL

- THE SIGNS & WONDERS GOSPEL

- PROSPERITY GOSPEL

Galatians 3:1-3 NKJV

“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?”

III John 1:2 NKJV

“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.”

🔥DOCTRINE OF DEMONS ARE CREATED FOR THIS LIE: “God is not giving you what He should”

Eve fell for it

Genesis 2:16-17 NKJV

“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Genesis 3:2-3 NKJV

And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’

John 10:10 NKJV

“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.”

John 9:40-41 NKJV

“Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.”

John 10:1 NKJV

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”

OUR DEFENSE

II Timothy 2:15-19 NKJV

“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

Psalm 119:104 NKJV

“Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.”

Psalm 119:105 NKJV

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

1 John 2:26–27 (NKJV)

26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. 27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

John 15:7-8 NKJV

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.”

Colossians 3:16-17 NKJV

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”

ABIDING DISCIPLESHIP: “Dealing with demons” pt3

Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭27‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“… do not give the devil a foothold.”

FOOTHOLD: TOPOS - “room”

Where we get the English word, topography

Alice of Troy

‭‭Daniel‬ ‭10‬:‭12‬, 20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“… the prince of the kingdom of Persia (Iran) withstood me twenty-one days…”

“..now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia…”(Iran)

WARS & RUMORS OF WARS

MATTHEW 24 IS RIPENING BEFORE OUR VERY EYES

PIC OF PUTIN

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭2‬:‭11‬ ‭

“.. we are not ignorant of the schemes of Satan “.

LUST OF THE FLESH

LUST OF THE EYES

PRIDE OF LIFE

‭‭I John‬ ‭2‬:‭15‬-‭17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”

1.THE DESIRE TO BE GOD

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.”

2.THE DESIRE TO BE ADMIRED (fame)

Ananias and Sapphira

‭‭Acts‬ ‭5‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.”

‭‭Acts‬ ‭5‬:‭3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?”

“Hypocrisy is a petri dish for demons”

3.THE DESIRE FOR POWER WITHOUT PURITY

‭‭Acts‬ ‭19‬:‭11‬-‭20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds. Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.”

‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”

The Trojan horse

4.THE DESIRE TO BE RIGHT (control)

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭26‬ -27

“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭28‬ ‭SERVE

“Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭29‬ ‭SPEAK LIFE

“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭30‬ ‭

“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭31‬ ‭

“Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.”

HOW DO I GET RID OF THESE BITTER ROOTS?

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭32‬ ‭

“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

‭‭I John‬ ‭5‬:‭21‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬ ‭

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

‭‭James‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬-‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”

‭‭John‬ ‭14‬:‭15‬-‭16‬ ‭

“If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭6‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭7‬:‭5‬-‭9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire. “For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments

THE NEW LIFE

‭‭Micah‬ ‭6‬:‭8‬ ‬

“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”

‭‭James‬ ‭4‬:‭6‬ ‬

He gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

‭‭James‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬-‭10‬ ‬

“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”

“Humility before God will produce peace with your past and hope with your future”

‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭1‬:‭12‬-‭17‬ ‬

“I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength to do his work. He considered me trustworthy and appointed me to serve him, even though I used to blaspheme the name of Christ. In my insolence, I persecuted his people. But God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and unbelief. Oh, how generous and gracious our Lord was! He filled me with the faith and love that come from Christ Jesus. This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners. Then others will realize that they, too, can believe in him and receive eternal life. All honor and glory to God forever and ever! He is the eternal King, the unseen one who never dies; he alone is God. Amen.”

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II Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

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Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‬

“…have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.”

ABIDING DISCIPLESHIP: “Dealing with demons” part 2

Matthew 10:1 NKJV

“And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out…”

Job 1:1 NKJV

“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.”

Job 1:6-12 NKJV

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. And the Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

II Corinthians 12:7-10 NKJV

“And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Acts 16:16-18 NKJV

“Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.”

Leviticus 19:31 NKJV

“Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”

II Corinthians 11:14 NKJV

“… Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.”

Acts 16:17 NKJV

“This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, ‘These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.’ ”

Luke 4:41 NKJV

“And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” And He, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ.”

Acts 16:18a NKJV

“And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed….”

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Acts 16:18b NKJV

“(Paul) turned and said to the spirit,”

Acts 16:18c NKJV

“I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.

Acts 19:13-20 NKJV

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds. Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.

II Corinthians 5:21 NKJV

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

Job 38:1-3 NKJV

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: “Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge? Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me.”

Job 38:1-7 NKJV

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: “Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge? Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?”

Job 38:18 NKJV

“Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.”

Job 38:19 NKJV

“Where is the way to the dwelling of light?”

Job 42:1-6, 10 NKJV

Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’ “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.” And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Isaiah 54:17 NKJV

“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.

Acts 8:5-8 NKJV

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city.

Luke 10:17-20 NKJV

Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

THE END (SERMON) 

COMMUNION

I Corinthians 11:23-25 NKJV

“For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.’ In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.’ ”

I Corinthians 11:27-31 NKJV

“Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.”

John 13:27 NKJV

Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered (Judas) him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

Exodus 12:7-8 NKJV

“And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.”