The Illuminati

11/12/11

Greetings,

                I want to begin this week with a question. Have you ever heard the phrase: if it were a snake it would have bit you? This phrase is usually used to describe a situation when an individual completely overlooks something that is right in their face. Think about a time when someone in your family asked you to get them something and then told you exactly where it was. When you went to get it you looked in the area, glancing right at the thing (whatever it was) and then went back to them claiming it wasn’t there. Aggravated, they dropped what they were doing to take you with them and fetch the object from exactly where they told you it was. Only at that point did you realize that if it were a snake, it would have bit you.

                There are proverbial snakes in the world today. What many in the church don’t understand is that they are already getting bitten by them. They look them in the face regularly, but are entirely blind to what is actually going on. They do not have the discernment to recognize what they are looking at, nor do most want it.

                I am going to present shocking information. It is my prayer that the majority that read this will receive these difficult things. The absence of knowledge contributes to the destruction of God’s people. Therefore, those things which are spoken of in darkness must be heard in the light.

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6)

“Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.” (Luke 12:3)

The fact of the matter is: The Illuminati are real.

If you thought this was just a fictional organization or the stuff of conspiracy theorists you couldn’t be further from the truth. The goal of the Illuminati is global domination. They are the masterminds behind the New World Order… at least on the human side of things.

Before I go any further you are inevitably thinking, “Hold on… that is a bold claim. Where is the evidence?!” Here is a list of sources that will undoubtedly change the way you view this world. I am heavily burdened by the level of ignorance pertaining to these things. This is especially true because I already know that I am called to be a leader when all of this “hits the fan.” So here is the evidence, not only for the illuminati, but also for mind control, secret operations, non-human entities, underground base activity, bloodlines in the kingdom of darkness, parallel dimensions, and the infiltration of the church. The fact of the matter is that most of us have been blind to so much for so long. Many of the following links are interviews: WARNING, there will be some graphic details that are shared. I do not recommend playing the following links with young children around. These first two links come from ex-illuminati born-again believers.

Svali (Ex-Illuminati)

Mary Ann (Ex-illuminati)

The following links are auxiliary as they will give a wide range of information involving many more issues converging around the illuminist agenda. Not all of these sources are Christian, so the interviewees may not all have perspectives that are in line with Scripture. Take these stories with a grain of salt.

Keith Truth on the Illuminati - Christian

Doug Riggs (nephilim mothers) - Christian

Mark Philips and Cathy O’Brien (the reality of mind controlled sex slavery)

Brice Taylor (mind controlled sex slavery) – VERY GRAPHIC

Judy (Project Monarch mind control survivor – online blog) – VERY GRAPHIC

Robert Duncan O’Finioan (mind controlled early generation super soldier)

Aaron McCollum (super soldier overview)

Michael Prince (mind controlled super soldier)

                This seems to be how it works. The illuminati are a group of generational Luciferians that trace their lineages back to ancient civilizations (although traditional research provides an official modern day inception of 1776). They operate in secrecy through the use of occult science. They have infiltrated all levels of government, free-masonry, media, banking, and other areas of society with their members. This seems to be their pattern of relaying their agenda from generation to generation:

1.       They marry according to bloodlines and compatibility

2.       Their children are abused (in every way imaginable) to create dissociation in them

3.       The abuse fractures their core person (spiritual/soul level) and allows for the creation of multiple personalities rendering them victims of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

4.       Their personalities are programmed, structured, trained, and often demonized for the overall purpose of executing agendas with the goal of bringing about a “New World Order.”

5.       Their created personalities (alters) conduct all of the hidden, dark activity of the cult while “normal” personalities come in to present during the individual’s everyday life.

6.       The “alters” of these individuals have all of the occult powers and skill sets programmed into the individual. They conduct all of the abuse, rituals, and missions, while the person retains no memory of what they are doing. This allows one mind controlled generation to program the next, all the while leaving the spiritual hierarchy of darkness in complete control.

7.       The fact that the many of these individuals retain no memory of what they are doing allows the enemy to seed his people into the church, key areas of society, the military, the education system, etc. The people themselves often have no idea about what occurs when their “alters” are presenting. This also allows the enemy to seed “sleepers” into society that are programmed to “awaken” under certain planned scenarios like the bringing of martial law to America and the arrival of antichrist. A whole lot about this can be gleaned from the book The Black Awakening by Russ Dizdar.

This pattern is the very similar to the techniques used to create sex-slaves, super-soldiers, “Manchurian candidates” and other assets as revealed in the testimonies above through avenues like MK-Ultra in the US and Project Mannequin in the UK. These methods have been refined in the past 70 years through black research beginning in Nazi Germany and continuing into this country under project paperclip.

This is what the church is up against now. In our very pews, neighborhoods, education system, government, military, etc. are members of an extremely wicked cult (and its sister organizations) that may or may not have any idea what they belong to. The highest level bloodline illuminati are members of royal families. Added to this is the non-human side of things—something that is harder to explain. It ultimately boils down to fallen angels and their children… they are not “aliens.” When I speak of “children” I am not just referring to direct angel to human offspring as discussed by Doug Riggs, who works with deprogramming nephilim mothers. “Children” also includes second and third generation hybrids, clones, demons, and genetic abominations that come as a result of genetic experimentations by angels. This is referenced in several of the eye-witness testimonies included above. These things were spoken of by the prophet Daniel when he said “they” would mingle themselves with the seed of men.

“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” (Daniel 2:43)

The current church is primarily looking to leaders that are scared to death of the things discussed in this letter. The average leader in the body of Christ is absolutely unequipped to deal with the implications of this activity. Even those that are willing to acknowledge these issues won’t be caught speaking out about them, and if they do they are most likely putting all of their hope in a pre-tribulation rapture. Finding leaders that are prepared to equip the body of Christ to prevail through these things has been close to impossible—until now.

God is building an army that the world does not yet see or follow. When the leadership of institutionalized religion fails, true leaders will arise. Under them the church will come to inevitable unity because like I have said—it is not optional. I am not afraid and I do not plan on being “evacuated.” I am a leader of the church of the last days and I know that there are others like me. There is no escape, just a job to do.

Discussion

1.       What are your thoughts after listening to Mary Ann?

2.       What are your thoughts after listening to Svali?

3.       What are your thoughts after learning about the history of the illuminati?

4.       How can unity help the church to become more effective in confronting the enemy?

5.       What are you learning from the other testimonies linked to this letter?

The Issue of Need

10/1/11

Greetings,

                This week we are going to talk about need. In this economy a lot of people are facing challenges that they didn’t have ten years ago. Businesses are going bankrupt, jobs are being shipped overseas, families are losing their homes and many people have very real needs in this hour. What does the Bible say about this topic of need?

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

When people think about needs the first things that will typically come to mind are carnal needs. For instance, we need food. We also need shelter and warmth. We need water to drink and we need our health. If we are deathly ill and nothing changes, we will die. It’s safe to say that at the top of the average person’s list of needs are those things that lead to death if they are not provided.

However, the Bible clearly says that God promises to meet all of our needs. This week I want to tell you where this provision is. I say where because it has a literal location and no, it is not the local loan shark (otherwise known as credit card companies and payday advance businesses). God has a literal location for all of the provisions promised to us. However, before I tell you where it is, we are going to bring unity into the conversation.

What many people do not consider is that unity is a need amongst Christians. Most of us are very happy to have our own little community. We are happy to have the freedom to do our own thing. It’s so much easier than dealing with others that act different, talk different, and think different than we do. However, without unity Jesus cannot return because the Bible says we must come to the unity of the faith. It also says that Jesus isn’t returning until His wife has made herself ready. The church, being the bride of Christ, is the wife of the Lamb. In other words, if we want Jesus to come back and wrap this thing up we need unity.

“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13)

“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.” (Revelation 19:7)

Here is the question: If we need unity and we don’t have it, where can we get it? The answer to this question is quickly becoming one of the most important, if not the most important message arising in the body of Christ today. The answer is a message that changes everything. This message is not only the location of what we are looking for but it even becomes Satan’s endgame. This message has the power to change the reality that we experience. Have I said enough yet?

I’m dragging this out because when I tell you what this message is I want you to remember it. If I just come out and tell you the location of your needs you may dismiss it as unimportant. If I just come out and tell you the location of unity you simply nod your head in agreement and go about your day. This time I’m making you work. What is this all encompassing message that gives us everything we need?

In the passage that we opened with, the writer was speaking to monetary need based on context. This is what preceded that verse.

“Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.” (Philippians 4:15-18)

The financial gift that the church at Philippi gave to Paul was an acceptable sacrifice that was well pleasing to God. Moreover, it caused fruit to abound to their heavenly account. What some people fail to accept is that we do have an account in heaven. Our giving is credited to this account. In any case, it was after saying all of this that Paul explained the result; God would supply all of their need.

This illustrates a concept that many completely overlook. We interact with heaven on a daily basis. When the Philippians gave a gift to Paul, the transaction went through heaven even though the actual money went from their hands to Paul’s ministry. Their physical actions had spiritual counterparts and your physical actions have spiritual counterparts as well.

What does this have to do with need? In order for us to understand how we interact with heaven on a daily basis we have to change our concept of heaven. Heaven isn’t just a place we go when we die but it is a place that we are located from the moment we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior. This is why the following verse is written in the past tense.

“And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6)

                In the beginning of this letter I promised to tell you the location of all of your need. Here is the answer: All of your need is provided for in the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is the dimension where God is king otherwise known as heaven (which is divided up into heavenly places). We have access to it as believers and we interact with it whether we know it or not. However, when we become purposeful about our interaction with it we can begin to pull all of our needs from the location where they are all provided for—even unity. This is summed up in the following quote by Jesus.

                “For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Luke 12:30-31)

Discussion

1.       What are your needs?

2.       Being completely honest, how capable do you see God when it comes to His ability to meet your needs?

3.       Do we interact with heaven now or only after we die?

4.       Where is the location of the needs that God has already met?

5.       What do we have to seek in order to access the fullness of the provision of God?

Faith and the Heart

9/24/11

Greetings,

                Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). Faith is like a substance that is placed upon our words. This substance reformats the spirit realm to produce realities in line with the words that we speak in faith. The amount of faith that we have equals the amount of power that we will walk in. This substance that cannot be seen is evidence that the things we call forth will manifest from the unseen realm. In this way, faith becomes a sort of currency. We exchange our faith for the manifestation of God’s works. Faith is a powerful force.

                There is much to be said about faith. However, what I want to discuss is the reason why some people can speak things and receive nothing while other people can speak things and receive immediately. What is the difference between strong faith and weak faith? Doesn’t the Bible say that God is no respecter of persons? Why does faith seem to work better for some than for others? These are relevant questions that have mind-blowing explanations.

                Let us begin with an illustration. Consider Dung the caveman. Dung was a great hunter in his day. His weapon of choice was the rock. When he would hunt, he would pick up a rock and throw the rock at his unsuspecting prey. If he would miss, he’d starve. If he hit the animal in the wrong place, he’d get attacked. However, if he threw the rock just right, he would hit the animal in the head. When this happened, the animal would often fall unconscious. Once the animal was unconscious Dung would kill the animal and eat it.

                What do Dung and his rock have to do with faith? Dung’s arm, being the driving force behind the rock, is like our heart. The heart can be understood as the subconscious, and it is the driving force behind faith. Dung’s rock, being the substance projected from the driving force, is like our faith. The rocks that Dung threw could be sharp or dull. As one would imagine, sharp rocks were more effective.

                Dung had a son. Dung’s son was named Ung. Ung was trained to throw rocks just like his dad. What Ung found, however, was that his dad’s way of doing things had very limited effectiveness. One day Ung had a revelation. He realized that if he bowed a piece of wood and put a string on it he could use it to launch a sharpened rock attached to a stick. He called the invention the bow and arrow. After a few years, Ung surpassed Dung as the village hero. He also began to train other hunters to be more effective.

                When we look at Dung’s son, we learn a lesson. Ung had a revelation that if the driving force could be made more powerful, the rock could be launched with greater force and accuracy. This is what happens when we get our hearts right, which is when our hearts are programmed according to the word of God. Remember that the heart is synonymous with the subconscious.  In Ung’s example, the heart is like the bow and the wooden stick attached to the rock. It serves the purpose of launching faith with accuracy and power. Moreover, although a sharp stone makes the best arrow head, a dull arrow launched from a bow is more effective than throwing rocks. If our hearts are right, our faith is released more effectively regardless of whether we have great faith or small faith.

The heart (or subconscious) is where spiritual and carnal knowledge come together. It is here that the decisions about what we truly believe are made. Subconscious thoughts are beneath conscious thoughts. Therefore, they can override conscious thoughts and skew logic and truth. This is why if you tell an alcoholic that they have a problem they will get upset with you. It is because their heart is deceived and is skewing the power of truth. Heart level beliefs create the life that we experience. This is why the Bible says that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).

                The more ability we have to believe God for things on a subconscious level, the more substance (or faith) we will be able to attach to our words. Unfortunately, many people don’t make the necessary lifestyle choices to change their subconscious thinking. Therefore, they go their whole lives living like Dung. They do things in the most ineffective way possible and look at others in bewilderment and jealousy. What they don’t understand is that all of the perverse media, pornography, foul language, addictions, ungodly relationships, and sin in their lives trump the ability for the power of God to rule in their hearts.

The ability for the power of God to rule in our heart is directly related to the amount of input that we receive from God. Even after we are saved, Christ must dwell in our heart by faith. If he’s not dwelling in our heart, then he’s outside knocking at the door from our spirit (Revelation 3:20). Christ perpetually dwelling in our heart requires that our heart is being programmed according to the word of God. When Paul wrote the following, he was writing to Christians that had already received Jesus as their Lord and Savior. He was explaining to them that Christ needed to dwell in their subconscious, the platform from which He could unleash His kingdom through their lives.

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts…” (Ephesians 3:17)

In the beginning, the Word of God (Jesus Christ) had the power to create reality (John 1:3). Now, the word of God in our mouths has the power to recreate reality because it is the same power. Reality must be recreated by us because we live in a fallen reality. Our purpose is to bring reality back in line with the kingdom of Heaven. However, the faith that we use to do this is limited by what is going on in our hearts. Are you living like Dung?

There is a third character we haven’t addressed yet. His name is Bond, James Bond. James doesn’t use rocks, he uses guns. Moreover, he never misses.  He goes into the camp of the enemy and leaves it a wasteland. Not only that, he walks away knowing that he makes it look good. After all, he pulls off all of his jobs in a three piece suit.

In this example, the guns represent a heart that has been finely tuned by the presence of Christ in an individual. God’s belief system has overhauled their subconscious. When this happens the heart becomes maximally effective in releasing faith. The bullets represent the lethal force of great faith tearing through the camp of the enemy as a result. This is what happens when a person has both a right heart before God and great faith. Can you imagine an entire army of James Bond’s?

When we consider that faith is the substance that is attached to our words, we begin to have a huge revelation that our words are indeed powerful. Moreover, the more like Christ we become, the more powerful our words get. When we produce words that carry the faith projected by a finely tuned heart, our words reconstruct reality. Jesus illustrated this when he spoke to the storm and it stopped (Mark 4:35-39). When we consider unity, it must be built spiritually before it will exist in the natural. We must speak the unity into existence. Now is the time.

Discussion

1.       When you consider the effectiveness of your faith, with whom do you most closely identify: Dung, Ung, or Bond?

2.       What determines the power of faith that is being projected from us?

3.       The heart can otherwise be understood as what?

4.       Do you feel that God is pleased when He looks upon the thoughts of your heart?

5.       How much faith do you put behind your words, actions, and prayers?

Forgiveness

8/20/11

Greetings,

If you’ve never heard about a woman named Corrie Ten Boom then it’s time you did! She has an incredible story of forgiveness, which is the topic of discussion this week. The fact of the matter is that unity among the body of Christ requires forgiveness. We are all human, and even the most spiritual among us do things that can be offensive or hurt others. If we refuse to forgive offenses, we effectively refuse God’s ability to work forgiveness in our midst.

Corrie Ten Boom was a World War II Holocaust survivor. She was taken to a concentration camp for hiding Jews in her house during the Nazi occupation of Holland. I need not go into the details of all that she faced while she was there. Her whole family was imprisoned, but both she and her sister were sent to the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp. Corrie survived while her sister did not.

She became a preacher after receiving a miraculous deliverance from the concentration camp. After some time had passed, her preaching took her back to war torn Germany. On one occasion she was speaking in Munich on the topic closest to her heart—forgiveness. After she finished, a man made his way to the front to talk with her. It was none other than one of the most abusive guards from Ravensbrück. This was a man she was forced to stand before naked, shamed, and starved. The flood of memories caused Corrie’s blood to stand still. Although he did not remember her, she remembered him. Nonetheless, he asked to hear it from her mouth that he was forgiven for the sins he had committed as a guard. She did.

Her testimony is so powerful because it shows the limitless power of forgiveness. Some of us have a hard time forgiving the driver that cuts us off in traffic. Yet the power of forgiveness is as infinite as God Himself. There is no offence that is beyond forgiveness, and Corrie Ten Boom is an incredible illustration of this fact. How can one forgive another human being that showed only abuse, torment, and utter disregard for their humanity? The answer is only through the power of Christ.

As Christians, we can never get away from the fact that Jesus came so that we could be forgiven. Sure He came to heal us, to set the captives free, to give sight to the blind, and so forth. However, all of these other works are meaningless apart from our forgiveness and reconciliation to God. Jesus even explained that he healed so that men would know that He had power on earth to forgive sins.

“And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them. Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”” (Mark 2:1-12 NKJV)

It is clear from this account that the purpose for healing the paralytic was to prove that Jesus had the power to forgive sins. He came to forgive us. How often do you go out of your way to forgive someone else for all the offenses they have committed against you? The ultimate call of Christians is to be lovers of God and men. However, this rests entirely upon our ability to forgive like God forgives. Quite frankly, it is impossible to allow the love of God to flow through us towards someone we refuse to forgive. The un-forgiveness not only blocks God’s love flowing out of us, it puts us in bondage as well. Furthermore, we have a clear warning in scripture.

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” (Matthew 6:14-15)

Forgiveness isn’t an option for Christians. It is a requirement. It doesn’t matter what’s been done to us or how horrific the abuse has been. Corrie Ten Boom proves to us that nothing is beyond God’s ability. With His power at work in us, forgiveness is possible in any situation. With Christ you can forgive the friend that turned their back on you. You can forgive the employer who treated you unfairly and unjustly fired you. You can forgive the mother that didn’t protect you. You can forgive the partner who walked out on you, who abused you, who cheated on you, or who blamed you for every problem they have. You can forgive the person who molested, or even worse, who raped you. With Christ, all things are possible.

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” (Philippians 4:13)

Forgiveness is required for unity in the body of Christ. When we forgive, walls come down and we find deliverance. We find a new ability to embrace God’s love towards others and we walk free of the oppression that un-forgiveness enforces. When we release forgiveness every relationship in our lives will see improvement because it allows old wounds to be healed. If you have been harboring un-forgiveness, today is your day to forgive!

Discussion

1.       Are there individuals that you made a point to decide you wouldn’t forgive today?

2.       Are there individuals that you know you have to forgive after reading this letter?

3.       What prevents you from forgiving both lists of individuals from questions one and two?

4.       How do you think God feels about your answer to question three?

5.       Are you ready to forgive both lists of individuals? If so use the following format speaking the prayer out loud.

Father, today I choose to forgive (name) for (list each individual offence they committed against you). Thank you that as You have forgiven me, I have forgiven them. I receive Your healing from every wound they have caused me. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Love According to John part 3

7/30/11

Greetings,

                For the past two weeks we have been discussing 1 John and the shift in paradigm that his writings force upon us. While we are inclined to look at things from the natural first and then consider the spiritual, his writings look at the spiritual first and then consider the natural. We have also come to understand that in every case that he talks about the topic of love, he is speaking in reference to the love of God—agape. This is a love that can neither be generated nor counterfeited. It has its source in heaven and must enter into the earth through us.

                In order to make the concept of God’s love a little easier to understand, we are going to employ some examples. These examples will help us to conceptualize how we are to interact with and embrace the love of God. We need to understand what we are after and sometimes it is not enough just to hear something.

                Imagine a hamster. Consider its fluffy body, tiny feet and oversized belly. Admit it, despite the fact that it’s a rodent, it’s kind of cute. Of course, it lives in a cage. It takes its water from a bottle. It eats out of a dish. When it needs exercise, it runs in its wheel. The wheel spins and spins. The hamster never considers the implications of going nowhere or the fact that nothing gets produced. As long as it’s running and the wheel is spinning everything seems so right. As long as the wheel keeps spinning, who cares if the hamster actually gets nowhere?

                Some of us are like that hamster. Trying to love others without the love of God makes us no more effective than the hamster. The purpose is not to spin your wheels “trying” to live up to the Bible. We must stop thinking that Christianity needs to be generated by works of the flesh. This is purposeless and backwards. For the past two weeks we have been discussing that agape must be received from the dimension where it originates. Any other comprehension of loving others with the love of God is by definition carnal. This must not be so! Consider what Paul had to say to the carnally minded Corinthians:

                “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.” (1 Corinthians 3:1)

                We’re now going to look at an example that will help us lay down carnal thinking when it comes to the concept of agape. I am going to create a mental picture for how this works. Imagine a gardener. This gardener has a garden that needs to be watered. The garden represents the lives of the people in his sphere of influence. The water represents the love of God that needs to be poured out upon them.

                This gardener understands the basic principle of things. It’s his job to water the garden. If he waters the garden, he’ll bear much fruit! Like it is written

 “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matthew 7:20)

Unfortunately this gardener is not the brightest crayon in the box. Let me explain. He has a water hose attached to his house. This hose represents his connection to the heavenly places, or the dimension where God’s love is generated (Ephesians 2:6, Ephesians 3:17-19). This hose receives water from a reservoir that for all intents and purposes is unlimited. Therefore, instead of going the most logical route, he walks several miles to his nearest grocery store, pays $1.29 and buys a can of Coke®. What is his goal? If you can believe it, he has purposed to water the garden with the coke that his self-effort produced. Why would he do something so ridiculous?

The Coke® represents a counterfeit to God’s love. This is backwards thinking. It is impossible to water an entire garden with this substance and expect it to work. In the same way, it is impossible to love others according to the way God has purposed us to love them if we go about it with the wrong paradigm. The wrong paradigm is self-effort. It’s not our job to develop strategies for generating a counterfeit. It is our job to reveal it from its source. This can only be done by allowing this love to flow through us, which is why we must seek to be continually filled with the Spirit.

“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18)

Many Christians are like the gardener. They then turn around and try to love others as best they can. When the Coke® doesn’t work, they feel like failures. They ask: why does the Bible demand such an impossible standard? How foolish. Here’s the new paradigm: Turn on the hose of God’s love and douse yourself with it until your clothes, hair and shoes are literally dripping. Then turn around and blast the people in your life with the same hose. The love isn’t being generated by your self-effort, so don’t try to live like it is. Just let it flow from its source, and suddenly you’ll find that the proverbial garden is literally drowning from overexposure. It is possible! You can release the love of God upon others! Don’t be like the hamster spinning its wheels. When we get a grasp of this, unity in the body of Christ will become very natural.

               

Discussion

1.       Do you perceive life by looking first to the natural or first to the spiritual?

2.       Considering the example of the hamster, can you remember a time in your life where you felt like this example applied to your situation?

3.       Can you remember a time when you tried to love others out of a wrong paradigm?

4.       How many dimensions does the love of God occupy?

5.       Where does agape come from?

Love According to John part 1

7/16/11

Greetings,

                Unity is so important. It releases such spectacular potential that it boggles the imagination. At the same time, it is so hard. I am convinced that it is nearly impossible to truly unify with others that we refuse to care about. On a deeper level, the truest unity comes as a result of love. The apostle John, otherwise known as the apostle of love, gives us some of the deepest teachings on unity through his revelation of love. This week we are going to begin looking at what he had to say.

                When reading the book of 1 John (or any of his other epistles), a foundational understanding must be present; otherwise we’ll miss the whole thing. When John talks about love, he is not discussing human love. Throughout all of his writings the word “love” is translated from either agapao or agape. These are two tenses of the same word and specifically refer to the love of God. There are other Greek words available like eros or phileo that describe human love. This cannot be overstated. The entire collection of John’s writings contain revelation and instruction on the release and application of the most powerful force available from the kingdom of God—the love of God.

                To understand the implications of this statement we must understand that the kingdom of God is the dimension where God is king. It is not found out in space somewhere. The kingdom of God is a dimension that literally overlays the earth, and must be entered into through the heart. This is why Jesus tells us that the kingdom of God is within us.

“Nor will people say, Look! Here [it is]! or, See, [it is] there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and among you [surrounding you].” (Luke 17:21 AMP)

The heart serves as a gateway between the soul (mind, will and emotions) and the spirit (our contact point with God), and is a processor of both natural and spiritual things (Hebrews 4:12). The heart is synonymous with the human subconscious. In order to live a supernatural life our hearts must be programmed by the truth and realities of the kingdom of God. These are explained by the Bible as the exceedingly great promises that we have received (2 Peter 1:4).

Furthermore, to interact with the kingdom of God we must interact with the spirit realm. It is impossible to be Christian and reject spiritual things. The Bible says that God is spirit, and those that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). The dimension where God is King is in the spirit realm and the source of agape or agapao is in this dimension. Thus when we read about the love that John is talking about, we must understand that we are talking about a force that is being sourced from another dimension; a force which is impossible to artificially generate.

When I make a comment like “we need to love others with the love of God,” many Christians will identify with this statement. The reason why is because it sounds familiar to what they have read or heard. Unfortunately, I am presently convinced that a majority of Christians don’t really understand a statement like this. The immediate thought is: I need to be more patient or kinder or more generous. They have no understanding of what is actually being said because the foundation for understanding has never been presented to them.

In order to actually love others with the love of God we need to receive it from its location and allow it to flow through us. The love of God cannot be understood apart from the understanding that it requires an active interaction with His dimension. Any understanding apart from this will lead to inevitable failure because agape is impossible to artificially generate. Let’s look at one example of how John discusses the love of God.

“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.” (1 John 5:1-2)

                Let’s look at what this is really saying. It begins by explaining that when we believe in Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior we are born again. We immediately know that without Jesus, the entirety of everything else John is about to say becomes irrelevant. This is because only through Jesus Christ—who is the only door to the kingdom of God (John 10:9)—can we gain access to the rest of what John is about to say. In other words, it requires the power and works of God. It requires God’s dimension and resources being implemented through us.

                John continues and explains that everyone that loves the Father (Him that begat) loves everyone that has been begotten by Him. It is actually impossible to be Christian and not love other Christians. On this note, it is interesting that I have met plenty of Christians that hate other Christians. In my case, there are plenty of Christians that get as far away from me as possible because I make them “uncomfortable.” Not only have most Christians experienced a lack of caring from other Christians, but many have not come close to experiencing the true, unrestrained love of God through them. Why?

                The love of God is a force that finds its source and origin in heaven. The love itself cannot help but love other Christians, and it becomes a part of us once we receive Jesus. This love is in us because the kingdom of God is in us as a dimension overlapped upon us. Unfortunately, the heart condition of most Christians does not allow for this love to be activated in their lives. The condition of our heart can either be an open door or a filter to this love. In some cases it can even act like a brick wall. We must allow God to change our heart condition by granting us inner healing and changing us until our heart looks like His. Until God transforms our hearts this force loves from deep within, yearning to be loosed from behind the barriers and blockades in our hearts.

                Regardless of whether this love is flowing through us or not, if we are Christian it is present. According to John, it is “By this that we know that we love the children of God.” As we move towards unity we are actually moving towards the embracing of our true identity. Our identity is love, but the enemy deceives us into blocking the flow of this love and then convinces us that it isn’t there. Once we allow the love of God to flow as we engage His dimension, unity will be a natural manifestation of the truth within God’s kingdom. However, it will never be natural to those who refuse to mature in Christ, deal with their heart issues, and purposefully engage the kingdom of God.

Discussion

1.       The Apostle John is also known as the apostle of what?

2.       Where does agape come from?

3.       Can agape be artificially generated?

4.       What is the apostle John really explaining to us through all of his writing on love?

5.       What are some of the heart issues in your life that hinder the flow of the love of God through you?

The Bond of Peace

7/9/11

Greetings,

                It’s amazing to think that we are already more than halfway through the year. We have been discussing the topic of unity in the body of Christ and hitting it from many angles. This week, we are going to discuss unity in the body of Christ in light of peace. As it is written:

“Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” (Ephesians 4:3)

There are two types of unity among the people of God described by the Bible. One is the unity of the Spirit and the other is the unity of the faith. There is a difference. The unity of the spirit is automatically true. All Christians, regardless of age, race, nationality, or denomination have the unity of the Spirit. When we receive Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior we receive the Holy Spirit and become one with the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 6:17). Since all Christians are receiving the same Spirit, we have the unity of the Spirit. The unity of the faith will be when we come to a place of doctrinal unity in that we believe the same things that God believes.

Until we get to that final state, we are to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. The unity of the Spirit isn’t going anywhere. I could yell and scream at my Christian brothers and sisters until I am blue in the face. I could reject them, or chase them away from my house with dogs. It doesn’t matter. The unity of the Spirit remains present at all times and ultimately for all eternity.

                The unity of the Spirit is above our ability to sever. It is a bond that can’t be broken. This is a good thing. Unfortunately, some people don’t see the need to keep this bond in peace. They are cruel and do dastardly things.  What they don’t understand is that this type of activity is akin to punching themselves in the face. Have you ever punched yourself in the face? When this happens, the only one that gets hurt is you.

               

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling” (Ephesians 4:4)

According to the very next verse in the book of Ephesians we learn why we should keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. It is because we comprise one body. There is only one body of Christ. The idea that there is a Lutheran body, a Baptist body, a Pentecostal body, and so forth is hogwash. Every person that is a partaker of the Holy Spirit becomes a component of this single body.

Imagine this. One day you are walking down the street and you see a man walking backwards. Moreover, he is only taking steps with one leg. The other leg is wrapped in bandages. You go over to him and you ask him some pointed questions. For starters, you ask why his leg is wrapped in bandages. He tells you that his leg has really angered him. He was so angry that he punched, kicked, and stabbed his leg until he had to put it in bandages. Then you ask him why he would do that to his own leg. Of course, he provides an illogical explanation. In his world, his leg isn’t actually a part of his body.

The body of Christ is one body. No matter what we do, we will not be able to destroy the unity of the Spirit. We are brothers and sisters in Christ no matter what. Since we cannot rid ourselves of the unity of the Spirit, it is in our best interest to endeavor to keep this bond in peace. Don’t be guilty of foolishness like the man in our example. It is not in our best interest to try and destroy others in the body of Christ that we don’t like.

Moreover, we have to understand that the peace that we’re supposed to keep isn’t a human or carnal peace. God gives us our peace. The peace that we can keep with others should ultimately come from Him and not from ourselves.

“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7)

This verse explains to us that it is not our peace that keeps our hearts and minds. This is good because it means that “guru Sue” isn’t the solution to your problem with your Christian brothers and sisters. Jesus Christ is your solution. God gives us His peace so that we don’t have to come up with our own. What we are supposed to do is receive His. However, we only receive it through Jesus.

Receiving the peace to maintain unity with our brothers and sisters in Christ is most effectively done through the avenue of grace. Grace is what allows us to receive Jesus Christ in the first place. We are saved by grace (Ephesians 2:8). Grace is unmerited favor because it is actually God’s ability given to us. God gives us His ability to be saved because we cannot save ourselves. Furthermore, we can use grace to access anything that God has given us whether it is faith, joy, peace, or anything else.

 “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2 Peter 1:3)

This is how it works. God has already given us all things pertaining to life and godliness. Included among these things is the peace that we are supposed to endeavor to keep with our brothers and sisters in Christ. Since we already have these things, our focus needs to be on access as opposed to acquisition. What is the key that unlocks access? Grace. For this reason I am going to give you a simple prayer that will allow you to receive anything God has already given to you including peace. This is a wonderful tool that will work wonders in your life. All you have to do is fill in the blank.

“Father, I receive your grace to __________________________________. In Jesus name, Amen”

Discussion

1.       How are we supposed to keep the unity of the Spirit?

2.       How well do you do this in your own life?

3.       How many bodies of Christ are there?

4.       What is grace?

5.       What are you planning on using the grace prayer to receive?