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I want to welcome you to today's program. It's a very special one
It's very unique because the final day of this phase, will be the 200th episode of YLWS. Really amazing! Everything arranged by God. How could we have planned that?
Knowing that some phases were 3 days, some 5, some 7...
It was done by God.
Before we go into today's very special discussion, I want us to watch a short documentary on why many are sick.. especially children.
(Why children get sick video play out)
If you thought Big Pharma was helping to cure disease, you were wrong. Their main job is disease maintenance and symptom management. Very sad.
The last few words you heard in that documentary is that God has given us a different kind of life. Every christian needs to know what it is to be a Christian. It is not a religion. In the world, they think it is, but it's not. There are things in Christianity that religions practice but that doesn't make it a religion.
For example, we pray, we have acts of worship, we have a code of conduct... But all that is nothing compared to the actual meaning/doctrine of Christianity.
When you become a Christian, you haven't joined a religion. You haven't become religious.
In Christianity, there's a little bit of what the Bible describes as religion.
Pure religion is visiting the fatherless and helping the needy.
Real authentic Christianity is not religion.
So what is it?
You have to understand what Jesus came to do.
What did Jesus come to do?
Did He accomplish what he came to do?
He didn't come to start a new religion. There were already many religions when Jesus came.
So why would the world have needed another religion?
He didn't come to start another religion.
John 10:10
"More abundantly" means to the full.
Jesus came so we would have life to the full.
That statement is clothed with such words that require further explanation.
You can't just explain those things with your assumptions. You have to go further into the scriptures. What else did Jesus say about life? (So that you would understand the kind of life he was talking about).
Whatever life he is talking about was not the biological life they were already living.
John 5:26
He claims here to independently have the same life as the Father. The Father authorized the son to have life in himself independently. Inherent life. Life like the Father.
That's the mystery of the God nature.
Who is Jesus? Jesus is God in the flesh.
Eternal life (the life of almighty God,) is in his son.
Jesus has the divine life. God's life. He came to give us the same life with God.
That emphatically declared that he came to make us children of God. He came to birth a family.
There's a verse that captures this beautiful thought.
Ephesians 3:14-15 KJV, NIV1984
The NIV has the best translation for this particular verse.
Here is a description of the spiritual kingdom of God.
Mark 1:14-15
Jesus came, announcing/preaching the good news of the kingdom of God.
You can interpret "the kingdom of God is at hand" in 2 ways.
1, it's near. 2, it's here.
But John put the two together.. 'it is near at hand'... Meaning it's so close to you, not in the future.
Matthew 12:26-28
They said he was casting out devils by Beelzebub (prince of devils). They accused him of using the devils powers.
V28- That's a sign that the kingdom of God has come to you.
Jesus brought the kingdom.
In talking about the kingdom of God, you have to understand the picture he presents.
First, there is a future kingdom: when Jesus sets up a kingdom in Israel to rule this world.
But the first thing he brought to them was the spiritual kingdom, and the spiritual kingdom is the spiritual community that he www setting up and with that community He will run the world when He comes to this earth to establish the kingdom of God.
This spiritual community is authorized to carry out the works of the king kingdom in the earth not first Jewus has to accomplish many things, the works of redemption and salvation.
He has to have the power over the whole earth, He had to defeat the devil who has legally but by deceit gained authority over the world, He had to have man redeemed and to deliver the kingdom and that's what he did and that kingdom is a spiritual kingdom and now he's got members of that community, some in heaven and some of us in the earth.
Matthew 6:30-33
Seek here means to be about.
The kingdom of God is where he is in charge, God is in charge, all of his blessings, his power is at work.
The number one you must recognize is the life you now have in Christ. The moment you got born again, the life of Christ supplanted the human biological life you had from your parents, most of the church hasn't majored on this, well because they don't know it.
John 3:16
Do rhey realize the power of that statement, do you know what it is to have eternal life?
1John 5:13
He wants you to become conscious that you have eternal life.
You have the life and nature of God in your spirit, that means that's what comes through your soul to your body.
The Holy Ghost is the glory of the Father.
When are you going to contemplate eternal life?
I have eternal life
I have the life and nature of God in me
Eternal life is at work in me, in my spirit, my soul and body.
When you contemplate this, something happens;
1Timothy 4:15
He said meditate upon these things that your profiting may appear to all, that means your growth may spread abroad.
Josh 1:8
Meditate on eternal life.
You have to have the mentality of the kingdom, what was Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Solomon like?
What was Jesus like? That will tell you what we are supposed to be like.
Luke 1:17
It means the righteous has a certain kind of wisdom which is Phronesis.
Phronesis makes you say what you are supposed to say, in the way you are supposed to say it at the place and time you are supposed to say it and to move in the direction you're supposed to move at the time you are supposed to move for the purpose for which you are supposed to move.
Phronesis is God at work in you, it's the wisdom of the just.
Phronesis brings you to the place you are supposed to be, at the time tare supposed to be there, for the purpose you are supposed to be there and God carrying out His purpose through you.
Your mouth is the front of a weapon so. the words that come out of you are sharp and cutting, effective.
So you find out that as a Christian you don't just do things like the rest of the world, you're prompted by the Wisdom of God.
Wisdom and intelligence are not the same, you need wisdom.
Wisdom is the divine life at work, never disadvantaged. .. We are sons of God
1John 4:17
Christianity is the word alive in you and through you.
When you're full if grace, you not only enjoy the grace of God, but you're disseminating the grace of God, grace coming out of you.
How gracious are you with your words? When was the last time you said something gracious to somebody? Is there a flow from your life, it begins with words.
Words are the most important things in the world.
Isaiah 60:2-
This shows how God sees His children as separate from the rest of the world.
When you want to understand the Christian life, you have to understand the promises of the Millenial kingdom (the book of Acts and the Epistles).
There is a difference between me and the world, so no matter what happens in the world, we are not in the same class, we don't belong there.
Don't think their thoughts, don't fear their fears, because you're different.
Jeremiah 17:7-8
I am blessed. We live in another realm, by a different set of rules, rules of freedom, the perfect law of liberty.
I don't see when heat cometh, what a kingdom, what a life.
Isaiah 9:1-7
He was born a king, he didn't become King, his government began from a point and continued to increase.
Ephesians 3:21
Every generation of the church, there is an increase of His government and peace, there is more and more glory to God in Christ Jesus, in the generation he will have more glory than other generation of the churches.
Jesus brought in a new era
Ephesians 2:6
This is his Aion and we are in his aion, this era began in Jerusalem and this is an endless era.
What began with Jesus Christ is endless and we are glorified, honored and blessed to be a part of it, this thing isn't about to end, it is only getting bigger and better.
We are in an endless era in Christ Jesus, the glory only increases, it isn't about to end, it get bigger, more glorious. So rejoice on Christ Jesus and never be concerned about the many frightful things in the world, but we are unmoved because we are the solution. He sent us here for that, to keep our world in check to keep it functioning within the ambits of God's timetable, that's why we need to know His Word.
Understand now what God wants you to do is to spread out your wings like the eagle and glide. Live above the storms, live above the chaos of the world, live above the world's system. He has given us eternal life, given us so much.
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