“Are you a double hearted Christian” Sermon by Eben Roux 24 January 2010

       

·       Last Sunday summary; 6 questions for introspection

◦  Am I a double hearted Christian (living with double standards)

▪  if we ask "How is it going with your spiritual life" implies we have another non-spiritual life, the bible story is about saving us from our fleshly life – this is the wrong question

▪  1 Cor 10:21 (eg; the leader who is prepared to empty the poisonous cup upon himself – Jesus did at Gethsemane). 2 Tables; your teaching source from more than one place

▪  With the fall, the soul was divided – sense then humans were on an alternate agenda

▪  God promises a new spirit and heart that are united

◦  Do I have enough word in me

◦  Do I have general spiritual knowledge/logic (can discern lies, big picture of Gospel – know destiny)

◦  Do I live the kingdom or just talk it

◦  Do I strive to apply Kingdom principles

◦  Am I a friend to the world?

 

·       Eph 1:17-18     FLOOD YOUR HEART WITH LIGHT

◦  Jn 1:11 (Gen 1:3) – we pray "create in me a new/ pure heart"

▪  But nothing can be created with eternal value apart from the word of God. Satan can't create – he can't create your impure heart, but he will try to keep your heart impure, since it is already impure – by preventing you from getting light/word in you. People might think here heart is pure because they're "good people" (like with Esau).

▪  2 Cor 4:4 What is the truth he doesn't want you to see and why.

·       The enemy doesn't want u 2 c u true nature – in Christ' image, made 2b a son of God – that u r actually created 2 rule with Christ on this earth

·       Doesn't want you to See and realise, acknowledge, believe – that you are a co – inheritor, since then you'll be a disaster for him, because we can then trample snakes and scorpions

·       He wants to keep you blind and double hearted – therefore he deceives 2 b the 'light of the world' through the religious spirit – the Holy Spirit counterfeit. (message for the corporate body throughout earth – to those for whom it applies, must change)

·       Lev 3:10 – year of jubilee – release to all slaves, each one's inheritance is returned

◦  The sign of this Jubilee points to the Pentecost 50 days after Jesus' resurrection – He set us free and restored our inheritance to us via the Spirit.

◦  The enemy doesn't want your freedom or for you to see who you are. Our inheritance was declared 2000 years ago already – but we're not growing to maturity so we can responsibly manage what's ours. Trying to make the church powerless – hence why we see so few power giftings

·       He's given you the power to return to your spiritual family

·       His word is there to change our thoughts/ideas/minds so we can move to action of applying God's word

◦  enemy can use your own intellect against

▪  2 cor 10:5

◦  Heb 4:12

▪  No person has the right to oppose/reject God's word; though people think when they hear something that offends them in scripture that can disregard it; but Heb 4:12, implies it's not our church – the word analyzes us, since God can't insert new wine into old wineskins, since both will be lost;

▪  The proceeding word – faith by hearing

▪  Ps 105:19    THE WORD TESTS YOU!

◦  The preceding word is not untrue, but the context is not applicable any longer

◦  The new wine that God is using is that of "father and sons"

▪  The Israelites lost the ark, because of a corruption in the priestly father and sons shown in Eli and his sons, but at the end of the O.T. (Mal 4:6)

▪  The angel told Zechariah that John would re-introduce the new wine of "father and sons"

▪  It's actually a method of using spiritual families on earth to reconcile us to Him as our heavenly Father

·       There's no other method, but through the new wine – hence why God is raising up families with the teaching of "fathers and sons" - but He needs wineskins; hence leaders need to prepare their communities so that the wine can be poured into them. Like at Cana – best wine kept for last. He needs crafted/willing wineskin communities – but they're not ready, globally – they perceive correction as "fire and brimstone".

·       The time is ready to be equipped with might, power and authority to build/extend His kingdom.

 

 

"Is jy n lig vir die wereld" 17 Jan'10 Sermon, studied 24 Jan'10

"ARE YOU A LIGHT TO THE WORLD?"                          January 17, 2010 Sermon by Eben Roux

(scripture references below)

 

Winston Churchill "Honey I was born for this" (was called the saviour of that nation)

Every one of us was born to be a son of God,

(Spiritual terminology - not gender based.)

We mustn't be satisfied with anything less – just think of all the benefit – we have as sons in God's house.

Just as in the physical we grow from being babies to adults that can produce more children...

 

• ROM12:2

 

"HOW DO WE CRUCIFY OUR FLESH ?"

 

• Jn 1:12 (Definition of "son of God")

Not "children of God" - you BECOME a son of God, but when you accept Christ you become a child of God -

Now as a child of God, once you receive the Spirit, the Spirit is then in you to empower you to become a son of God.

If one stays a child, you're going to keep behaving as such, unable to understand mature topics.

A spiritual child can't reproduce.

• Eph 1 :14
• Rom 12:2 – Reformation – to change
• Act 17:11 – Study of the Bereans, searched the scripture to test what they were taught, didn't just kick against

"Reformation": to restore original INTENT; God is restoring the church back to what He originally intended it to be; He does this using the PROCEEDING WORD.

Therefore it's everyone's responsibility who hears this proceeding word, to ensure that their lives change according to the proceeding word.

PROCEEDING WORD: The best wine that's kept for last, it's now in this end times, that this "wine" is served since it assists in accelerated growth in maturity, because time is running out, the Jubilee year has begun...

We must UNDERSTAND what's being covered (/what issues are presently on the table )in this last wine (like with Jubilee) – we must study and meditate these topics.

It's the believer's responsibility, not the leader -

Reformation is also to bring the believer to true obedience, so that they can cultivate a reformation culture in their lifestyles.

The proceeding word – is correctly applicable to our time context, it is perfectly relevant to the times...

• 2 Corinthians 10:4-6

 

Where are strongholds formed?  In our thoughts.

• Pr23:7

Our fight is against the strongholds in our thought patterns  The battlefield is in the mind.

God changed Satan's diet to eat "DUST" - at the fall's curse & "on his belly" means he is under our feet. Satan's thus in an inferior position naturally because of the curse.

Now what he consumes is our flesh ,IE; Dust – Flesh isn't physical, but souls' – thoughts, feelings, decisions... word says he prowls like a lion to destroy – it's the positive word in our flesh (soul) that he consumes...thus devouring our souls (since without God's word/light in our souls our; death is activated in the absence of God's life.)

Satan comes in by the "thin side of the wedge"; i.e. it's easily unnoticeable

There's no way a demon can come to someone without a stronghold in your soul – believers give them the right to inhabit by allowing the strongholds (lies) In which they dwell to remain in their thought patterns. We give them the right to ascend to high and lofty places in our souls from their inferior positions on their bellies where they should be.

(The moment we break these lies in our thoughts down;)

If evil can get hold of your thought patterns – they can influence your behaviour.

• 2 cor 10:5

◦   Cast down arguments

◦   Bring down ideas that exalt themselves against the true knowledge of God; Pride, tradition, intellect – typical techniques of the enemy to prevent the proceeding word from germinating in people's lives.

◦   We must keep at it, to the obedience of Christ, how was Christ obedient?  To the death; so we must crucify those ideas until that flesh is dead, so the spirit can be released to come forward.

◦   the testament of His will was read out 2000 years ago, yet few believers are living in their inherited birth right

◦   How can we be obedient to the death (of those ideas);

▪   We must be READY or PREPARED to punish obedience.

▪   By being obedient to the proceeding word – since that word's specific purpose is to transform us.

▪   The churches aim must be to be obedient to the point of the flesh's death...

 

 

• Ez 11:19: At the fall; the knowledge of good and bad entered humanities psyche – and the humans' spirit man died, and the soul was fractured.

◦   prophesy is history written in advance, as Ez said here, he was speaking of would happen – and is happening now

◦   so now we have a new spirit, so that the soul and spirit can be one and the new heart can be restored and made 1 whole

◦   now we need to develop spiritual common sense, which the average believer does not have

◦   IE; develop a spiritual reasoning/logic – then one can easily perceive God's will in His word and in circumstances

◦   The source of obedience is not our WILL, the heart is the source. The will simply enforces what's in the heart. The will is in submission to the heart

◦   Your soul with either reflect the fallen flesh or the living spirit in us, depending on whether Rom 12:2 has become a reality in one's live -

▪   Unfortunately most are spiritual schizophrenic, since they're double hearted having 2 opposing natures in conflict in them.

▪   Eph 1:17-18

·         It's actually simple for the believer to journey in victory

·         a true survivor is one who has overcome the flesh (like substance addiction, etc)

·         "Your eyes must be flooded with light" - we must flood our hearts with the proceeding word, in order to understand God's mysteries.

▪   Ps 119:105 – our minds must be changed, by having the eyes of our heart flooded with light through our ears (since faith comes by hearing)

·         if you want to be healed of brokenness – flood your heart with light

◦   When your thoughts are not renewed with this proceeding word then you will have the following present in your life;

▪   Sin, struggle, sickness, rebellion, poverty, disobedience

·         So one who struggles with something simply doesn't have enough light in them; this is the purpose of counselling, to guide the person to replace lies with truth

·         the more your heart is flooded with light the more you journey to maturity in victory – since there's nothing but God's light to reflect . .

·         how u perceive reality and interpret truth depends on how much light is in you

▪   the battlefield in the mind because we're double hearted

Unfortunately most believers have souls' schizophrenia, they believe or agree with the proceeding word, but continue to do their own thing – they have 2 masters, 2 tables, 2 cups

• Luk 16:13

• 1 Cor 10:21

Webster "SCITZOPHRENIA"; "a mentality/approach characterised by inconsistent or contradictory behaviour

·         u say u believe but u actions show something else

·         it is a breakdown in the relationship between ones thoughts/emotions and behaviour leading to faulty perceptions

·         leads 2 withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and deception;

·         people who have isolated them from the body (they God is my Father, the Spirit leads and teaches me, God has shown me) – n context with not operating in Christ's body – it's fantasy;

·         this is people without light in their hearts or spiritual common sense

◦   spiritual common sense allows the believer to apply the word of God

◦   2 hearts; Sunday 1 way, Monday another – living in a fantasy world of fairy tales

▪   Pr 18:1

·         one who seeks to isolate themselves; seek their own will

▪   Mt 15:8

·         traditions of people (opposes Christ)

 

 

Every believer must ask themselves if they're;

• double hearted
• do I have enough light in me
• do I have spiritual common sense
• do I live the kingdom principles or just talk about it;

◦   if not then you're a friend to the world and an enemy of God

◦   we can't live our worldly culture

▪   only thing we have to do in the world is reach out to them evangelical

▪   if we enter into their camp – we partake in their suffering

▪   it's tragic to think we can live our worldly culture and actually grow

▪   u must ask u self "can I bring Jesus in here" - if not then your plan must b 4 missionary outreach

▪   parents can see the child's blind spots – parents understand the deception of the world

·         people can't say "look at the youth"; since it's the parents who r raising the youth 2 b that way

 

God's word is powerful and can cause tremendous positive change;

• God wants to equip His sons with power, might and authority – so that the unsaved will flock to the church to see what's going on
• it's clear there's no time to waste / play around
• The only way we can break down strongholds is to flood our hearts with Light
• God's first accomplishment was the creation of light – which wasn't physical light, since the stars were created later

Rough transcript by Sean Keys

 

 

 

Scripture references:

 

Romans 12 :2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

John 1 :12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

Ephesians 1: 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

Acts 17: 11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

2 Corinthians 10:4-6

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

Proverbs 23: 7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

2 Corinthians 10: 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Ezekiel 11: 19 "Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,

Ephesians 1: 17-18

17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Psalms 119: 105 NUN. Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

Luke 16: 13 "No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

1 Corinthians 10: 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.

Proverbs 18: 1 A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.

Matthew 15: 8 'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.        

 

 

 

24 Jan 2010 Oasis Grabouw Cell meeting

Greetings blessed saints!

We’ll have our first cell meeting of 2010 at Erna’s again this Sunday the 24’th of January at 5PM.

Please come along and be blessed and bless!

Cheers

SEAN

 

The sign, the seed and the soil - Eben Roux sermon- 20090920

The sign, the seed and the soil

Is 7:14

Most thought the sign is that a virgin gave birth – but the sign “Immanuel” was the sign.

The sign wasn't fulfilled with His birth – HE WAS the sign. The sign wasn't fulfilled merely by His birth. A sign is fulfilled when that to which it point's to is seen.

Luke  2:11-12

Luke  11:9&20

Jonah point's to the 3 days of Christ's death, so the Jonah sign was fulfilled in the crucifixion.

Is 8:18 → Heb 2:13 We see that Jesus spoke the words in Is.

Jesus and His sons are the sign's

Jesus is the sign that His body would be a corporate man be represented by the many membered bride and body of Christ.

Creation waits because the sign was already there, Jesus...

Creation waits for the new creation – reborn sinners who grow

People don't want to hear about Jesus any more, they've heard about Him for 2000 years, they want to SEE His body made manifest

What does Jesus say to the gentiles that wanted to SEE Him; John 12:21

If Jesus stayed on earth, how will He appear to everyone, in a one on one way – He is the prototype, if He should die there can be many sons revealing Him to others – but the Son of Man must first be glorified

Ja 5:7

God waits for the precious fruit that will come from the wheat kernel who died and bore fruit.

Don't be so eager for the second coming because God awaits the fruits of the wheat to be revealed.

Jesus was the sign that pointed to the awesomeness of the new creation.

Jesus was the amazing sign that pointed to the generations that would rule and reign with Him and take hold of their inheritance and promises.

It's a mystery we struggle to comprehend, but we must be patient, too many want to escape the great tribulation.

Many get reborn because of fear of the end times “Turn or Burn”. People must come to Christ because they're afraid of judgement, but because they love Him and want to be filled with His Spirit.

The wonder fruit will be an exact representative of Jesus

Jesus was a divine seed planted in humanity – to bear a remarkable harvest.

John 1:14

Outside of Jesus there is no abundant life.

Everything after Adam, had the curse of activated death in it.

The moment a seed begins to germinate it begins to die.

The moment a child is born, the death process begins.

But when Christ's Spirit lives in us eternal life is activated.

Adam was a living soul, but had no Spirit.

Jesus alone has eternal, godly life – through His death and resurrection

Without the resurrection there's no hope.

We can accept the crucifixion and death of Jesus, but many doubt if he truly rose from the grave, and if He truly gives us His Spirit to have eternal life.

Many who come to church, only want the hope, each Sunday, they need more hope, they don't want instructions but smooth talk to make them feal better – but eternal life is a process of growing to maturity.

Those that persevere the crucifixion will rule with Christ.

Doesn't matter what they overcome, disease, illness – but when one receives Christ's Spirit in you and in the process you begin to grow to a point to where the earthly death can't come near you any longer.

He wants to prepare Himself for the coming events, thats what Jesus wanted to do.
Jesus was a sign, but He wants to reproduce Himself, but in order to do that He needs soil to receive His seed

John 1: 11-12

Rev 19:13

His name is “the word of God” - He who believes the Word of God, to Him who receives the new wine, they will have the oil to take them through the 4 pillars of the temple, to the most Holy place.

Acts 2:42

Angels couldn't receive or reproduce this life, they are spirits, and this life had to be planted on earth in the Adamic soil. Adam is made from soil – of the earth

2 Corinthians 4:7

Ro 8:29

Man is a special creation because it can be altered to the image of Christ

Col 1:5

Heb 1

Jesus is the image of invisible God, but we won't be changed to the likeness of God, but of Christ.

Jesus came to show the image of God on earth – to show the invisible God.

The Father is invisible and beyond time and all knowing – and this is the image that Christ represented to man.

Man couldn't understand the substance and nature of God in his omnipresent and invisible form, so God showed His Spirit physicaly to show His nature in Christ. Jesus became God's image and expressed God in a physical and visible body in a language that humans could understand. That was the primary purpose.

The Father is saying ; Son You gave me Your body as a vehicle of expression that I might reveal myself and unveil my glory to the world , now You have laid the life down and given that body over to death, that out of death I might bring forth a body for You, through which You can express Yourself, and which will bear Your image in the earth.”

Now we can lay our lives down so that we can see what He looks like.

Heb 10:5

1 cor 12: 20

Many membered body, for the expression of the Christ like in humanity

Mt 13:44

Like a diamond prospector. He is after that treasure. It's not about a person finding salvation thats been bought for you. No one can buy salvation, it is a gracious gift of mercy only. His kingdom is you and I, and the treasure in us is His Sprit. But it's covered in human flesh. Jesus found that treasure and for the joy set before Him He endured the cross Heb 12:2

He paid the full price not only for the hidden treasure but the ground / earthen vessel,

He obviously has a plan there with, why would someone by dead ground without a plan?

1 Corinthians 6: 20

Your body and your soul has been purchased

Phil 3;21

He wants to change your body after He has quickened your spirit. He didn't buy our body to leave it in the grave, He will take this earthly tabernacle and change it into a glorious and eternal temple, thats what He wants to do with that earthen vessel/ soil He bought – it's not ours, it's His, He bought it.

1 Corinthians 15:1

To see the what price He paid ;

2 Corinthians 8:9

He gave EVERYTHING, for us, He sold EVERYTHING He had, so that the treasure in that field, but be revealed, uncovered, manifested, quickened,

Why did Jesus do all this, in order to plant that divine life in earth of humanity, so that we might grow up into His likeness and bear His image and share that eternal glory that He has with the Father, that we might be rich with Him, co – inheritors;

Adam is made of dust, from the soil of the earth;

John 12:24

1 Corinthians 15:45

No life in his soul, of the earth, no way to reproduce, but the last Adam was a life giving Spirit, whose life stayed in its seed, until it was buried in the earth. Jesus as the seed, is the only one with eternal life, he alone can give us life that cannot be affected by death or illness

Ephesians 1:13-14

Who is the purchased possession – that piece of soil.

But the guarantee of our inheritance on the horizon, is the Spirit, but we must grow to the inheritance, it's not just to stay with the Spirit, we can't just settle for the guarantee, we must grow to maturity in Christ so that our inheritance can be entrusted to us 1 Pet 3,4

If someone parents have died, and they become 21, the receive the testament is given to them. If the inheritance is given to them they won't still sit with and hang on to the guarantee

Many believers, are sitting at the position of being sealed by the Spirit for Jesus with His Spirit, but thats just the guarantee, He wants us to grow as King's kids to become rulers and have a more than excellent infrastructure in our mindsets. Rom 12:2

The principles with which we functioned must be replaced with others, so that there may be a new principality.

The principality won't be replaced if the principles upon which it depends isn't changed. We can do what we like, without changing the principles upon which our lifestyles are built upon.

We mustn't just be satisfied only with having the guarantee, we must grow spiritual to a new wine skin by crucifying the human flesh and ego that keeps us from victory. It's not the pastors mistakes in his messages that keeps you from growing, but your own flesh.

We want to release our inheritance with the same mindset attitude and infrastructure, if we get offended with the truth God reveals to us, then there's an attitude resisting that growth.

If a Christian can't believe that we can rule with Him in heavenly places and only believes in the fairy tales of Christian history, then they're sitting in Nineveh for the sign of Jonah.

Part of our inheritance is ruler ship, thats part of the family business, one has the benefits of being part of the common wealth of God's kingdom, He showed us through Joseph, that what the world has to offer in governments a material wealth is nothing compared to the potential we have.

The first thing thats going to make a difference in reaching out to people is if they see Christ manifest in you.

We can't get stuck on the sign/seed, but must grasp the purpose for which it was used.

We need spiritual guidance through a spiritual father, so that we grow up correctly.

A functional family lives according the principles that Jesus has given us.

Believers that are church hopping for a spiritual family mustn't just look at the pastor, but must look to see if that church is a new wine skin.

Jesus, was a sign and prototype of what He wanted to do in His corporate body.

He gave the example with the father of 12 sons and we must continue.

He was the fulfillment of the sign, as the sons who stand up today with the Holy Spirit, and grow to maturity, where they can be as Jesus showed us in His prototype – therefore we move the the most Holy place, past all the superficial barriers.

Like with John – he wasn't shown heaven only, but was shown a believer who has grown to maturity

Rev 19:10

This man had changed so much to the likeness of Christ, that John thought it was Jesus.

Like the gentiles (Greek) that wanted to see Christ – but that time was not yet come.

We are the son, for which the whole of creation waits -

We must grow spiritually into the holy of holies where we can have a face to face encounter with the living God, and have our identities changed to a prince of God, a son of God like Jacob.

Oasis Grabouw - Second cell meeting

Hi Guys

Here was what we planned to go through,  ;
I've made a website for Oasis Helderberg's Grabouw cell group, so that all these emails I send to keys5.oasisgrabouw@blogger.com will leave a copy at the web address;
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WHAT DOES YOUR CHRISTIANITY LOOK LIKE?

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Normally when asked this question, we're normally at first offended, we wonder "what does it have to do with you, it's between me and God".

We must examine ourselves - personal introspection

How much in our lifestyle has changed since we've become Christian

Romans 12

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

We must change

He has become the sin offering for us and in return we give him our bodies as a temple for the Holy Spirit - but this means we must change, we can't go on with old habits and expect we're going to receive the benefits of the bible, we can't "trick" God and expect Him to uphold His side of the covenant.

When you look at Christians at church on Sunday - then they're wonderful, holy, deep, and such excellent models, but the tragedy is that the world is out side there, they don't see you Sunday's at Church, they don't come to church, they don't see that side of you, they only see you outside the church from Mon to Sat. So how does your Christianity look like to them, does it look like in the papers?

We see in the media how Christians are ridiculed.

Rev3:15.

* Where are you in your spirituality?

Have you gotten stuck at the rebirth process?

Where are you in your growth process – have u changed

After the fall God asks Adam a question He already knows the answer to, because He was challenging Adam to take introspection. God knew where Adam was, He wants Adam to admit Adam is outside God's will, after the fall Adam was in another place – outside God's will.

When our prayers are not being answered- we ask; “where is God” – we should ask “where are we”; Just as God asked Adam, how is your spiritual growth, what does your spiritual life look like?

Acts 3:21

“21 "(JESUS) whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.”

Jesus is in heaven until His enemies become His footstool

 

Mt 17:10-11

10 And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

11 Jesus answered and said to them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things.

Jesus will be in heaven until restitution and restoration has been fulfilled.

Mal 4:6 (What was Elijah sent to do?)

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

“6 And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."”

Jn 1:14,17 (What will John do?)

“14 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.

17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

 

Restoration work

We, the church, complete the work John began, therefore;

Rom 8:19 & 21.

“19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.” & “21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”

The restoration process is coupled to the sons and fathers (not gender based, spiritual terminology)

Elijah doesn't do the restoration work, the spirit of Elisha is to bring the sons and fathers back together so that correct leadership can be restored, but brings the church order back, to bring sons and fathers back together.

Only a father can lead a son so he can grow, so that he is functional when he matures and be a good father himself,

step father can't do this.

Unfortunately, most believers don't have an ear to hear the new, rhema word that is proceeding from the throne, because their ears are closed. The 7 (representing “completion”) churches are all asked “He who has an ear to hear, let him hear” - thus faith in the church is so weak.

Rom 10:17

“17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

A person who believes something – does it!

The church is passive because it doesn't really believe, like people being raised from the dead.

If the churches faith is strengthened, Then it goes over into action, any person whose faith grows goes over to action -

you start proclaiming the word, you start groups, you get involved, you aren't just glued to a chair Sundays at church, you become active, and you live for Christ.

This restoration that must begin, must begin with the church, the church is Christ’s body, so the body must be restored. We are the body of Christ on the earth, we rule in His name. Jesus will be in heaven until the restoration and restitution of all things.

There is a lack of things being in divine order,

there's a divine order intended for creation

there's a proper order intended for animal life, vegetative life and human life.

There's a proper order intended for everything, but all things are in disorder and in terrible chaos, the curse must be lifted, every enemy must be under our feet. Divine order for the universe must be restored

.All off creation is groaning and crying for the release of the curse of decay and death.

Everything depends on the body of son that are to be manifest in the earth in the perfect state of divine order, of sons and fathers, this is the order the church is supposed to be in. But for the church to grow in divine order it needs to receive the correct spiritual food. The only problem with this food is it isn't received by the mouth but by the hearing...but at the moment the body looks pathetic, the world looks at the church and sees disorder. People make jokes about the state of the church. Spiritual food comes by hearing.

Jer 51:20

“ 20 "You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms;”

Tragic thing is that most Christians are blunt weapons of warfare, many believers say we don't have to do any warfare that Jesus finished with Satan on the cross, but if we look at the world, does it look like there's no evil?

Jesus has taken Satan's authority, and bound him, but what about all of Satan's followers, all the demonic forces that take children captive through the media, music,

Jn 10:10

“10 "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”

Satan doesn't do inspection to see if everything is alright, he comes only to destroy. It's his nature/character – he is programmed that way.

Does the world need deliverance from demonic powers? do God's people need deliverance from demonic powers?

Those who are to be battle axes need to be sharp in their hearing of His voice;

hearing comes through to 2 areas;

1.      Obedience to Him

2.      Revelation of His word

Rebellious spirit brings deafness & there's a lot of deafness in the church

we need to sharpen our hearing

Amos 8:11

“ 11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.”

1 Samuel 3

1 Then the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.

With Eli the relationship of father and son was perverse, he didn't lead and discipline his children and when his son's wife gave birth to Ichabod, they were killed Eli died and the ark was lost.

God's order is permanent, He is in the rest position, His infrastructure is in place, He isn't going to work in a different order to the spiritual laws He has established. After Jesus Ascended He also entered the rest position.

We, The Christians must do the work because the Father and Son are in the rest, but the order is what we must establish – there for the order of sons and fathers, because the sons must rule and the fathers only can establish the sons to rule.

The written Logos word must become Rhema word before it can be of any use to you.

Ps 23

The bible is the green pasture, the waters are the living waters of the Rhema word, t

hat has the vitamins to make you grow. Without this the church has no vision, and churches are divided between each other.

What is the “ear” they talk about in revelation, that not all have this ear?

The bible talks about the ear that can hear

Ex 21:1-6. voluntary slaves ear piercing – his ear belongs to his master, his ear belongs to his master, he only listen to instructions from his master.

Ex 32:2 Aaron asks for the gold earrings from the slaves to build the false idol – how many believers/churches have golden calves – they don't hear from God because their ears belong to religious systems. They don't hear what God says but what their own churches head office decides is true. If they don't agree with their church, they go to the internet for their own answers. How many people without the Spirit, read the logos scripture, but it doesn't mean anything to them. Do Christian's no all the characters and meaning and sayings of the biblical characters more than the characters of their favourite media/shows? Who are they listening more to?

Do your ears belong to God or to a golden calve?

We must hold introspection to take account for where we are in relation to God.

Children want to believe what the parents say, but if they say conflicting behaviour in the parents actions, how can they take their words seriously?

We must look at the covenant.

We are in time, but Jesus is outside time, he is the beginning and the end;

he sees the day when people will mourn because they don't know about Him – thus Jesus calls out by His Spirit for people to make a reckoning of their lives; because He knows what will happen, that one will stay and one will be taken away.

We don't want to be the cause of our children being taken away from us and not enjoying eternal life with us, we must check to whom our ears belong, what entertains us, what makes us laugh. We don't want to go to paradise without our loves ones. What do we listen to the most? Who’s conversation do we seek the most?