Broadcast notes: 3.17.11: "The Earth Lease Is About To Expire"

Let's talk about Jesus....

The King of kings is He,

The Lord of lords,

Throughout eternity...

The great 'I AM', 'The Way',

'The Truth', 'The Life', 'The Door'.

Let's talk about Jesus,

more and more!

"And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book (scroll) written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.  And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof?  And no man in heavn, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereupon.

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof.

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

And HE came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne....and I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noice of thunder, one of the four beasts saying:

"Come and see!"

This Scroll represents the 'Earth Lease'....Jesus, the Second Adam, will complete the unfinished commission of the First Adam.

God, the Creator & Owner of this world, gave to the First Adam a 'lease', a period of time in which he was to be God's under-ruler here on planet earth.  God knew that Adam was not going to obey His command not to eat of the 'tree of knowledge of good and evil', so He limited the time of this earth least to six 'days' or 6,000 years.

Adam, through his disobedience, sub-let his 'home' to the Devil, the enemy of God and man, and this world is currently 'lying under the influence of the Wicked One', 1 John 5:19.  But he knows his time is short and is doing everything he can to cause chaos in this world and take as many souls to a Christ-less eternity as possible.

Even before Adam's 'high treason', God prepared a "Lamb".... slain from the foundation of the world, (Rev. 13:8)  From Barnes Notes:
"The meaning here is, not that he was actually put to death "from the foundation of the world," but that the intention to give him for a sacrifice was formed then, and that it was so certain that it might be spoken of as actually then occurring."

The Scroll John saw represents the 'earth lease', and the 7 seals represent the 7 final years of the age of that lease.  The end of the lease, means the end of the Wicked One's 'influence' in this world.

John in Revelation 5, wept much when he saw the 'scroll sealed with 7 seals'...he did not realize that the One on Whose Breast he had leaned, was to be the One to 'break' each seal and bring the plan of God to its finish.

He didn't know that Jesus was the 'Second Adam'.  It had to be a Son of man to finish the work and cut it short in righteousness.

Daniel 2 & 7, Revelation 13....describes the human ages on earth under the Lease given over to the Devil.  Daniel 2 & 7 also tell of the 'Kingdom' that the Ancient of Days would set up in the days of the rulers of these ages (both human and demonic).  That this Kingdom would be ruled over by the "Son of man" and that His Kingdom would be an everlasting Kingdom, never to be overthrown.

Daniel concludes by telling Nebuchadnezzar that this 'thing is sure'!

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"The Earth Lease Is About To Expire"(from Charles Capps' book, "The End Time")

Regardless of who you approach on the streets today, whether sinner or saint, they are conscious of the fact that time is about to run out for planet Earth.  There are chaotic times ahead  for those who refuse to heed God's prophetic warning and continue to walk in their own darkness.  They have been caught in the vortex of this triangle of the end and are about to be thrust into gross darkness because they will not honor their Creator and refuse to follow the guidelines set forth in the Bible, the Creator's handbook.

The earth and its inhabitants are caught in a vortex of time and are being hurled toward the Seventh and last Millennium."

Let us prepare our hearts and go out with a 'SHOUT'!

Broadcast notes for 3.16.11: "The Triangle of The End"

Charles Capps had a vision while teaching a seminar several years ago....in that vision he saw the 'Triangle of the End", and he heard the Spirit say: "As you approach the triangle of the end, time shall grow faster and closer, faster and closer....until the wicked shall be cut off."

"As those words came forth, I saw in my spirit, as it were, a large acute triangle.  It was standing on end, looking somewhat like an inverted pyramid, with a line drawn down the center from the wide top to the narrow point at the bottom.  Being wide at the top and very narrow at the bottom, it resembled a funnel.

Inside this triangle was light, but outside was darkness.

The prophetic word continued:  'There was a time when you could be off from the center line of the triangle and still be inside of the triangle of light.  But as you approach the end of the triangle, you must move to the center line, for line must be upon line, precept upon precept.'

I could see that if you were off from the center line, at the bottom end of the triangle you would be outside of the triangle of light, and in the darkness.

I understood that was the way the wicked would be cut off.  Even though they were to one side of the center line of God's Word at the top of the triangle of time, they were still in the light.  But at the narrow end, which represented the end of the age, everyone who was not on the center line (precept of God's Word) at the end of the age would be in darkness.

As we approach the Seventh Millennium, time seems to have accelerated and prophetic events are being compressed together.  We have entered the triangle of the end, in which both the time allotted and prophetic events are being compressed to maximum density to fulfill all the prophetic Scriptures and end this age in God's own time frame.

Time is reacting much the same as liquid flowing through a funnel, being drawn into the narrow end and released into a container of larger dimensions. 

It seems that there is not enough time to go around and time controls us.

We all, in one way or another, sense that we are being drawn by the vortex created by time itself.  We are spiraling faster and faster through the narrow end of the triangle of time for the purpose of being released into a new Millennium that will forever change planet Earth.

What an exciting time it is to see prophecy being fulfilled almost daily, right before our own eyes.  God has allotted a specific time for prophetic end-time events, and they must transpire in His timing to fulfill all prophectic Scriptures concerning the mature and glorious Church refereed to by Paul in Ephesians 4:13 as a perfect man minitering in the fullness of Christ!

This will be a short work of righteousness and will culminate with the Rapture of the Church."

(from Charles Capps book, "End Time Events")

Broadcast notes 3.2.11 "Strength lies in returning to the basics...."

God told Joshua to 'meditate in the Word day and night', so that his faith could remain strong for the job that God had ahead of him. Joshua 1:8

 Just as we need to drink water on a daily basis to survive...faith as it goes through its cycle in your life must 'drink' the Word of God on a daily basis to be strong, robust and nourished. We are anxious many time to get on to the 'meatier' matters of God's Word, but it is in the basics that faith finds its greatest faith.  We are 'drilling' down into the 'meatier' matters of the basics ....

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Reviewing:

Faith...IS and Faith Does

"Faith is" (Noun)

a conviction, a trust, what is believed, an assurance.
Here is a verse that is a foundational basic th

Hebrews 11:6:  "He who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

"Faith does" (Verb)

produces a full acknowledgement of God's truth,

produces a personal surrender to Him,

results in a conduct inspired by such a surrender.

Faith is "Toward" God, Heb. 6:1.
Heb. 6:1&2, the foundational doctrines of The Faith. 
Read Hebrews 11...you will see the lives of those who had Faith in God and what that Faith produced.  Faith IS & Faith DOES.

Jesus is the Author of Your Faith, Heb. 12:2.
Jesus can Author your faith, because He lived it before you.
Heb. 12:2 states that He went to the Cross 'in faith':  "who for the joy that was set before Him, despised the shame and endured the contradiction of sinners against himself."

By faith on that Cross, He saw You!
He saw Himself raised from the dead and seated at the Father's right hand.
He saw Himself with the Name above every name.

Have you considered the faith that Jesus had to have when He was offering Himself upon the Cross?

Something to ponder, 

and then ask:  

what does that example of faith teach me?

Jesus faith is an example to us.
He experienced all the happenings of human existence....hunger, tiredness, rejection, misunderstandings.
His faith overcame it all and He went on to fulfill God's plan for His life.
His faith is your example.
His faith is in you now.
He has authored it....it has already overcome the world in His Life and it will do the same in yours.


Whenever the devil comes to you to make you doubt the Promises of God, just remind him of the life of Jesus.


Number 23:19
"God is not a man that he should lie or the son of man that he should repent (change His mind), has he said and shall he not do it, has he spoken and shall he not make it good?"


"Sirs, I believe God!"
Acts 27:25


Walk in the footsteps of THAT faith that Jesus walked in.
One set of footprints, not because He is carrying you, but because you are putting your feet down in His footprints, so there is only one set.
He 'carried' you to the Cross with Him, so you could walk in His footsteps NOW.


When you are a Christian, you see the real arena of battle.
There is a war in the heavenlies....
'we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God has ordained before the world unto our glory'. 1 Corinthians 2:7.
The wisdom, 'which none of the princes of this world knew or they would not have crucified the Lord of glory', 
1 Corinthians 2:8.


Book title: "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ".
Jesus went through death to put to death the things that bind you, blind you and confine you.


Rev. 1 - Jesus gives His Testimony
"I am He that liveth and was dead and I am alive forever more!"

His victory has been set to your account.
His faith is now yours.


You are an exact copy of Jesus, the "master" new creation man, the Second Adam.
Remember the mimeograph?

This woman has made a 'master' which she is attaching to the mimeograph machine, and each turn of the drum will produce another just like it.


This is what happens when a person is born again, God produces another 'son' just like Jesus.
Galatians 2:20:  "It is no longer I that lives, it is Christ that liveth in me, and the life that I now live I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."


I'm a new creation, I'm a brand new man!


Think on these things.....they will cause your faith strong, robust and world overcoming, mature faith like Jesus had when he went to the Cross.


Walk on the high ground.
Strength lies in these basics.

Jesus wants you to walk in faith today, just like He walked in it.
2 Corinthians 2:14
NOW thanks be unto God who ALWAYS causes us to triumph on Christ....
no more two steps forward and three steps back.


I govern myself, I am getting strong in the faith, the Word of God abides in me and I am overcoming the wicked one.


Eph. 5:1
"Be imitators of God as dear children...."
When the father is carrying the child, the child is not IMITATING the father.  The child has to be on his OWN TWO FEET in order to imitate his father.

Galatians 3:7
"Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham"


Jesus walked in the faith footsteps of His father, Abraham...
Galatians 3:16
"Now to Abraham and his SEED were the promises made.  He (God) saith not, 'And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy SEED, which is Christ.


"....and if you are Christ's, then are YOU Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."  Galatians 3:29


The people who count the most to the Church:
God
Jesus
Abraham


Never get tired of rehearsing the basics...
what faith is,
what it is your life for, what it intends to do for you.


Sail on, when the water gets high...
Sail on, when the wind starts to blow.....
No weapon formed against me shall prosper, Isaiah 54:17


What overcomes the world?  FAITH
Faith in what?
Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God!
I John 5:1-5
(this is a football!)

Broadcast notes 3.1.11 "Faith....running the course!"

We are still in our series, "The Cycle of Faith". Today we are looking at faith in its operation as a series of recurring events that lead you back to your starting point as a new creation.....you began your life in God when you were born again, and as you are obedient to "THE FAITH", you will come back to your starting point: God. Join me today as we look at another definition of the word, 'cycle', as it applies to faith.

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Come away with me, Beloved!

Let's be outward bound....let your heart, your spirit man, magnify himself, take a deep breath of heaven's air.

The Holy Spirit is all around you and He is heaven's air!

Be uplifted, refreshed and carried away into God!

I want to make you ‘timeless’ conscious.

God-conscious.

No-limitations conscious.

A definition of Zoe that applies to our study today: 

Jesus is the Author of Zoe (we looked at this last week)

In addition to being the Author of Zoe (it is the present possession of the believer:  John 5:24, 1 John 3:14),  

 the life he gives, he maintains, John 6:35 & 63, 

and one day that life will extend its dominion to the sphere of the body changing it from mortal to immortal, 

(the resurrection of Christ is the down payment toward your resurrection)

"Many times our theologians have been our enemies, they have made the Word a dogma or creed, when it should have been as though the Master were here speaking to us,"  E.W. Kenyon

Tradition gives us definition of words that are limited in scope, i.e. 'everlasting life' or 'eternal life'.  The normal definition is being in heaven forever at the end of our life when we have been Saved.  

The Bible gives a additional definition of these words....Zoe, a 'quality' of life, God's life that becomes the present possession of the believe at Salvation.  Look at this verse:

John 5:24King James Bible
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

This verse says that 'everlasting life' is the PRESENT possession of the believer, "hath (has) every lasting life (Zoe)", "IS passed from death into life (Zoe)".

John 5:25 New Living Translation (©2007)
"I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

The death referred to here is SPIRITUAL DEATH, the nature of the devil.  The reason you needed to be born again. When you were born again, you passed from spiritual death into spiritual life (Zoe).

I looked for a 'bowl of sunlight' on the web to illustrate what a 'bowl of Zoe' would look like, of course there is nothing in this world that can illustrate Zoe....but this will hopefully give your mind and eye something to look at....this looks like a light beam with its vibrations...and that is what God's life, Zoe, inside of you is doing the same thing, it is living, vibrating, energized....

"out of your belly shall flow rivers of living (Zoe) waters"....John 7:38.

Picture Zoe flowing from the spring in your inner man....

this is the Life that came into you when you were Saved.

You translated out of the kingdom of Darkness and translated into the Kingdom of God's Dear Son, Colossians 1:13, out of spiritual death into Spiritual Life.

Put your hands on your belly, get real quite and become conscious of What is on the inside of you.

John 4:  Jesus said to the woman at the well, "I will put within you a well of water springing up to everlasting Life (Zoe)", (Vs. 14).

The God-kind of Faith is a quality of Zoe Life.

Looking at definition of word, ‘cycle’ in relation to faith.

“A course or series of events or operations that recur regularly and usually 

lead back to the starting point.”

Strength lies in returning to the basics over and over….no matter what your stage of spiritual growth.

Child – young man – father

Vince Lombardi:  “Gentlemen, this is a football!”

 The 'football' in this lesson is 'faith'....that faith will lead you 'toward' God, and Jesus in the circumstances of life.

When you have a problem, call Him, not your counselor or friend, your banker of doctor......call Him up, and tell Him what you need.

Then listen for His Answers to your situations.

Remember, the promise that is attached to the 'well' that is on the inside of you:

"He who comes to ME, and drinks of this water shall never thirst again." John 4:14

Faith's cycle:

New Birththen

Spiritual Growth into Christ's image then

The mortal putting on immortality.

 This is faith in its cycle as a series of recurring events that lead you back to your starting point as a new creation.....you began your life in God when you were born again, and as you are obedient to "THE FAITH", you will come back to your starting point.

Faith is in the timeless realm.  It is an eternal property.

You will never not need, ‘faith TOWARD God’.

When you get into tough times each day, remember who wins in the end:  GOD!

Go back to the basics in tough times...

Who is Jesus?

He is my Savior, my Healer, my Baptizer in the Holy Ghost, my Soon Coming King. He is the Alpha & Omega, He was dead and is resurrected and alive forever.  

1John.5:1-5

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.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world...

How?  by faith.

Faith in who?

Jesus....

What about Him?

That He is the Son of God.

What does that mean?

That He wins!

Say:  "I am born of God, I overcome the world.

I have the God-kind of Faith.

That faith is in Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God.

Nothing conquered Jesus,

nothing can conquer me, as I have faith in Him.

2 Corinthians 2:14:

"Now thanks be unto God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ."

Broadcast notes 2.24.11 "The Cycle of Faith".....illustrated by the hour glass

The "Cycle" of Faith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hebrews 11:1

"NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Father, let the level of Your kind of Life rise in those who read these words,

in Jesus' Name.

Some other versions

Faith is in the "NOW" tense of time.

 "I AM THAT I AM"

"will" is a future tense word,

"was" is a past tense word,

"am" is a present tense word.

An example of the 'cycle of faith':  the woman with the issue of blood

Mark 5:25-34

She had said within herself:  "If I can but touch the hem of his garment, I will be made every wit whole."

Notice the tense:  "If I can, I will be made", (future tense)

It would have been nonsensical for her to continue saying this WHEN she touched the hem of his garment.

I can hear her saying, as she touched, 

"NOW, I am being made every wit whole!"

Her faith gave substance or brought into her being what she had previously hoped for.

WILL BE became NOW.

This woman is an example of the 'cycle of faith'....

set this cycle of faith into time.

Her beginning statement (If I can), was a one point in time, her touching Jesus' garment was at another point in time.  In between, the cycle of faith was flowing forward to her manifestation.

Her faith was moving forward along the line of time, and each moment was a NOW

of faith.

Look at the hourglass .... I particularly chose a picture that shows the individual grains of time flowing and a man looking intently at them.

We are going to learn something about the cycle of faith by looking at this hourglass.

Look at the top with the individual grains of sand.

Look at the bottom and the grains falling down into it.

The most important part is the smallest part of the hourglass where the individual grains of sand are flowing through.

One grain of sand at a time, yet constantly flowing through that little opening.

The future flowing through the present and into the past.

The smallest part of the hourglass represents the present.

Focus your eye on the smallest part, for it is the NOW of your life.

Think of the individual grains of sand as individual moments of time.

Individual moments of time in YOUR life.

God is at that NOW point of your life.

That is where FAITH MEETS HIM.

Hope...upper part of hourglass....future....wanting....prayers prayed

Faith...middle....NOW.....receiving

Substance....bottom....past tense....having....prayers answered

Hebrews 11:1

Speaking of the cycle of faith again....

let's look at the hourglass again....

this time the hourglass is full of little grains of faith.

The measure of faith God has given you is in the top half of the hour glass.

Faith that is stored up for you.

Those grains of faith flow.....

when you walk in the Spirit and talk in the Spirit, 

and live in the Spirit day by day.

The faith that collects in the bottom is 'spent' faith, faith that has finished its cycle concerning a certain matter, an answer to prayer that it has brought into manifestation.

A Spirit-song, given by the inspiration of the Spirit to Lu Hardy

Oh I walk in the Spirit,

and I talk in the Spirit,

and I live in the Spirit day by day.

I'm alive in the Spirit and I thrive in the Spirit,

and I walk with my Lord all the way.

This isn't just talking about the Holy Spirit, it is also meaning YOUR human spirit. The Holy Spirit LIVE in your spirit and when you walk by your spirit, you are walking by the Holy Spirit.  

Print yourself a picture of an hourglass from the internet and label it:

top:  hope

middle:  faith

bottom:  substance/answer

Definition of 'cycle' we're looking at today:

an interval of time during which a sequence of a recurring succession of events or phenomena is completed, such as a 4-year cycle of development.

Jesus used crops as illustrations of the 'cycle' of the harvest:

 Mark 4:27-29

seed....stalk....head of grain.....ripened.....harvest

John spoke of the 'cycle' of spiritual growth:

1 John 2:12-14

child....young man....father

Child....knows their sins are forgiven.

Young man....is strong, the Word of God abides in him, and he is getting experience in overcoming the wicked one.

Fathers.....know God in a way the children and young men don't know Him. (John 17:3)

The 'faith' of the child, goes through a cycle....and pretty soon the devil can't trip you up any more, like a person can trip a child.

Faith begins to get muscles as its growth cycle continues.

Do you notice the word, 'phenomena' is associated with the definition of 'cycle'.

Phenomena: something that is impressive or extra-ordinary; a remarkable or exceptional person; a wonder, a marvel, a miracle.

You are a miracle....if you have been born again you are a phenomenon in this world.

You just can't see the 'real you' because of the veil of flesh that you live in.

But God sees the real you, so do the angels and the devil.

If any man be in Christ, he is in a new world altogether.

"If anyone has entered into fellowship with Christ, a new world has at once opened upon him, an old world has passed away."(Stanley)

"When anyone is united to Christ, there is a new world; the old order has gone, and a new order has already begun." (New English Bible)

Grow up in grace.

Grow up in your knowledge of the Word and the things of the Spirit.

Grow up in your ability to overcome the wicked one.

You are a phenomenon in the spirit world, and that is the real world.

Live 'from' that world in 'this' world.

You are a spirit having a human experience.

Galatians 2:20

"It is no long I that liveth, but Christ that liveth in me".

That is the consciousness we are developing.

Dr. John G. Lake:

Developing Christian Consciousness

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.


We have not yet learned to keep in touch with the powers of God. Once in a while our soul rises, and we see the flame of God accomplish this wonder and that, but beloved, Jesus Christ lived in the presence of God every hour of the day and night. Never a word proceeded from the mouth of Jesus Christ, but what was God's Word. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63).

When you and I are lost in the Son of God, and the fires of Jesus burn in our hearts, like they did in Him, our words will be the words of life and of the spirit, and there will be no death in them. But, beloved, we are on the way.


Why, Jesus was the triumphant One. Did you ever stop to think of Jesus at the throne of God? I like to think of the twentieth century Christ, not the Jesus that lived in the world two thousand years ago, not the humiliated Jesus, not Jesus dying on the cross for my sin, but the glorified, exalted Son of God at the throne of God, Who stands declaring, "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death" (Revelation 1:18). Blessed be God.


And that is the Christ Who breathes His power into your soul and mine, and that is the consciousness that is breathed from heaven in the Holy Ghost when it comes to your heart. Amen.

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Broadcast notes 2.23.11

The very heart of God's my home......

Come with me today,  I'm visiting the "Bosom of the Father"....

Are you hungry today?

"Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled",

Matthew 5:6.

Break the bonds of the 5-sense realm today, get into the "River of the Spirit",

let it carry you out beyond the basics of the Doctrine of Christ, into the dimensions of the spirit-realm in which God's moves and has His Being.

"I'm in a River of the Sweet Holy Ghost"

I'm in a River of the Sweet Holy Ghost,

I feel Him bubble, and I feel Him flow,

I'm going to let Him take me where He wants me to go,

Yes, I'm in a River of God's Sweet Holy Ghost."

When you are born again you have a deposit of the God-Kind of faith, it's purpose is to help you escape the 5-sense realm and learn to move around in your new world...the new world of those who are New Creations in Christ, 2 Cor. 5:17.

Your conscious effort to do this will please God.

Read this page out loud to yourself....then you are using the 5-senses (sight, hearing) to escape the 5-sense realm!

Put the conscious effort into 'knowing God and His Son, Jesus Christ', which is knowing Life Eternal, John 17:3.
KNOWING Him is ABOVE knowing the benefits of your Redemption, that is knowing the AUTHOR of Redemption.

Have a 'humble and hungry' heart....
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"The Cycle of Faith"
Faith IS & Faith DOES
Faith is:  a conviction, a trust, what is believed, an assurance.
Faith:  produces a full acknowledgement of God's Revelation, inspires a personal surrender to Him, and helps you to live the conduct inspired by that surrender.

Jesus is the Author of your faith:  Heb. 12:2
Faith is DIRECTED TOWARD God, Heb. 6:1
Faith flows with the Holy Ghost River, and that River flows TOWARD God, carrying you into His Presence, (notice the picture above...that River flowing from you, through the Cross, through Jesus and right up to the very Heart of God).

Jesus came forth from the Heart of God:  John 1:18
"No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared him."

Jesus was the Word of God, and where do God's Words come from...
out of His bosom, inside of Him, just as your words come forth from your 'bosom'!
......who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is. (Bible in Basic English) 
....no one has ever seen God, but the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father's heart. (Living Bible)
No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known. (Weymouth's)

 

Matthew 11:28 .... "Come unto me all you who are heavy laden and I will give you rest".

Rest upon the bosom of Jesus as John did.  There is something about being 'bosom' close....I think of the phrase, 'bosom-buddies'.

Colossians 3:1-3....."If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above...Vs. 3 for you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God."

You hidden in Jesus' bosom.

Jesus is hidden in the Father's bosom.

Think of 'nesting dolls' as an example....here is a photo of them:

You are to live your life 'out of' the bosom of the Father, as Jesus did.

When we say:  "the very heart of God is my home"....

this is what we mean.....the bosom of the Father is my 'home'.

 

Let's look at one of the definitions of the word, 'cycle':

....an interval of time during which a sequence of events or phenomena is completed.

Jesus ministered on earth 3 1/2 years.  That was his 'cycle' of ministry.

Jesus went about teaching, preaching and healing.

Acts 10:38.....Jesus "went about (that is the cycle of faith)doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him".

That 'cycle' started with the Baptism of John and was completed when He said on the Cross, "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit."

Faith finished it's cycle in His life.

Faith in you is also moving toward a point in time....when you die, that cycle of faith will be ended, and you will stand before the Lord.

What do you want to be like in that day?

Let faith finish its cycle of work in you.

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Book recommendations today:

http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Hunger-Other-Sermons-John/dp/0899850200/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298483220&sr=1-1

Broadcast notes 2.22.11

I'm outward bound, today...won't you join me?
We are going to 'lay ahold of Him like He has laid ahold of us",
Philippians 3:12


Let Heaven invade your space right now....
let the things of this earth grow dim to you right now, let your inner man 'slip the surly bonds of earth'...outward bound into the very Heart of God, to investigate the tresures that He has laid up for us in Christ, Colossians 2:3.


"The Cycle of Faith...."
A child of God has a supernatural deposit in him, a measure (Romans 12:3) of the 'God-kind of faith', (Mark 11:22).  Jesus 'breathed' this into you when you were born again, re-Fathered from above.  He is the Author of that faith in you (Hebrews 12:2).
This 'faith' is of heavenly origin and it will 'lead' you to live a 'Heaven-above-earth' life in this world, a super-natural life....above, beyond, outside of this four dimensional world in which we live.


This faith starts at a point and continues to a point...to 'present you in the Father's presence without spot or wrinkle'.


Your becoming conscious of this faith will enable you to enjoy the full benefits of Jesus death, burial and resurrection.


REMEMBER....BECOME CONSCIOUS OF:
YOU ARE NOT A HUMAN HAVING A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE, YOU ARE A SPIRIT HAVE A HUMAN EXPERIENCE!


ZOE (zo-a) is what energizes your measure of the God-kind of faith....God's Life energizes everything in the natural world, atoms on up.  He does this in His capacity as Creator.


The billowing Cloud of His Power filling everything, sustaining everything.
Isaiah 6.1&4
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 Colossians 1

 ^13-14God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.  

^15-18We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.

 ^18-20He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.

 ^21-23You yourselves are a case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got. But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God's side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence. You don't walk away from a gift like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other Message—just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message.

 ^24-25I want you to know how glad I am that it's me sitting here in this jail and not you. There's a lot of suffering to be entered into in this world—the kind of suffering Christ takes on. I welcome the chance to take my share in the church's part of that suffering. When I became a servant in this church, I experienced this suffering as a sheer gift, God's way of helping me serve you, laying out the whole truth.

 ^26-29This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it's out in the open. God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God's glory. It's that simple. That is the substance of our Message. We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. That's what I'm working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.

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 God's Power is released through His Word.
That Word sustains all of Creation...
Hebrews 1:3
".....upholding all things by the WORD OF HIS POWER."


God's Power sustains the New Creation that He has put on the inside of you:
2 Corinthians 5:17
"If any man be in Christ he is a new creation, old things have passed away, behold all things become new and all things (in that new creation) are of God."

Christian Consciousness

Chicago, Illinois, July 16,1920

John G. Lake

If there is a wonderful single word that expresses what God is trying to develop in us. The word is CONSCIOUSNESS. I love it. It is an amazing word. Consciousness means, THAT WHICH THE SOUL KNOWS.

God's purpose, and the purpose of real religion, is to create in the nature of man a consciousness of God.

CHRISTIAN CONSCIOUSNESS is superior to every other known consciousness.

I want to declare that Christianity stands superior to every other form of religion under the heavens and in the whole earth; that no other religion under the heavens has the same consciousness of God or the same means of producing a consciousness of God that Christianity possesses.

In 1893 in this city, was the great Chicago World's Fair. Among the features of the fair was a Congress on Religions. I have always felt that if Christianity could not demonstrate her superiority over every other religion, then Christianity has not the place and power that Jesus Christ said Christianity had in the world.

But the result of that Congress of Religions was that Christianity was so poorly presented, that the Indian philosophers ran away with the whole thing.

And fellow Christians, there began in my soul a prayer that Almighty God would reveal in my soul what the real secret of real Christianity is, in order that in this world Christians might become kings and priests, and demonstrate the superiority of the religion of the Son of God beyond that of every other in the whole earth.

In later years I went to South Africa.

When the Boer War came on, the native people became so frightened over war between white men, they had to send to China and get two hundred thousand (200,000) Chinese.

At the same time there were in South Africa one and a half million East Indians. These represented all the cults of India.

I had a Jewish friend, Rabbi Hertz,

One day he said, "Did it ever occur to you what an amazing Congress of Religions we could have in this country? It would put the one in Chicago in 1893 in the shade."  It was eventually brought to pass.

We gathered once a week. We gave the individual a whole night if he wanted it, or two nights if he wanted it, to show the very best he could, the very depth of his peculiar religion, and the consciousness of God it produced. It was not the details of his religion we sought, but the soul of it, and the consciousness it possessed.

Indian Buddhist priest

Chinese Buddhist priest

Indian Confucianist priest

Chinese Confucianist priest

Indian Brahman priest

Chinese Brahman priest and it went on.

Eventually it came to the night that Dr. Hertz, the Jewish rabbi, was to give the secret of the Jewish religion, and to tell the consciousness of God that was produced by the Mosaic and the prophetic teachings.

When I listened to Dr. Hertz, my heart asked, "Dear God, when I get my turn to reveal what Christianity is, what am I going to say that is going to reveal Christianity as superior to Jewish dispensation, and the consciousness of God that it produced in the souls of the prophets?"

I prayed, "God, in the Name of Jesus, when it comes next Thursday night, and it is my turn to show forth Jesus Christ, what am I going to say to surmount the revelation of God that he gave?"

I gave myself to fasting and prayer and waiting on God. And one day in the quiet GOD TOLD ME THAT SECRET.

CHRISTIANITY IS ALL SUPERNATURAL, every bit of it. The philosophies are nat­ural. The Mosaic dispensation and its revelation was supernatural, but its revelation did not have

the high degree of overcoming consciousness

that belongs to Christianity.

You say, "It is the Holy Ghost." Well, the prophets had the Holy Ghost.

Why, when Moses came down from the mountain, his face shone or radiated with the glory of God so intensely the people were afraid of him, and he was compelled to wear a veil until the anointing had somewhat left his soul.

But, beloved, Christianity is more than that.

Paul declares that the glory of Moses' face was superseded. I said a moment ago, Christianity is not a natural religion. It has nothing natural in it. IT IS SUPERNATURAL from the top to the bottom, from the center to the circumference, within and without. It comes right from heaven, every bit of it. It is the divine outflow of the holy soul of the crucified, risen, glorified Son of God.

But in my Bible is seen that the Son of God saves men from their sins, and changes them by His power in their nature, so that they become like Him.

Jesus went into the grave with a divine boldness, not simply as a martyr. He was God's PRINCE, God's KING, God's SAVIOR. He went into the grave God's CONQUEROR. He was after something. He went after the power of DEATH, and He got it, and He took it captive, and He came forth from the grave. He had death and hell by the throat, and the key in His hands. He was Conqueror!

When He came forth from the grave, He came forth bringing that wonderful spirit of heavenly triumph that was begotten in the soul of Jesus because He had not failed. He had gone and done it. No longer a hope; no longer a faith; now a knowledge— God's consciousness in His heart. It was done!

Oh, yes, bless God, I am coming back to that word with which I started. The secret of Christianity is in the consciousness it produces in your soul.

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.

We have not yet learned to keep in touch with the powers of God. Once in a while our soul rises, and we see the flame of God accomplish this wonder and that, but beloved, Jesus Christ lived in the presence of God every hour of the day and night. Never a word proceeded from the mouth of Jesus Christ, but what was God's Word. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63).

When you and I are lost in the Son of God, and the fires of Jesus burn in our hearts, like they did in Him, our words will be the words of life and of the spirit, and there will be no death in them. But, beloved, we are on the way.

Why, Jesus was the triumphant One. Did you ever stop to think of Jesus at the throne of God? I like to think of the twentieth century Christ, not the Jesus that lived in the world two thousand years ago, not the humiliated Jesus, not Jesus dying on the cross for my sin, but the glorified, exalted Son of God at the throne of God, Who stands declaring, "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death" (Revelation 1:18). Blessed be God.

And that is the Christ Who breathes His power into your soul and mine, and that is the consciousness that is breathed from heaven in the Holy Ghost when it comes to your heart. Amen.