Every man has a right to know, is God real? I know He is real and I can prove it. But what evidence are you prepared to accept? The biggest mistake most people make is they demand natural evidence from a spiritual being.
The natural man cannot receive things from the Spirit of God, they are foolishness to Him. You know what’s funny, the people who can’t believe in God believe in ghosts and demons! Some believe in ghosts but they have never seen one. Curiosity will get you nowhere, if you really want the truth one must become totally serious. We must begin with the law of creation. Man was created primarily a spirit, he has a soul and he lives in a body. God is a Spirit and He interacts with spirits, so we must make contact with God in our spirit. The body and soul of a man require physical evidence so they are of no benefit when seeking the Spirit of God. God gives us an element to help us make contact with Him and it’s called the gift of faith. Faith does not require tangible evidence in order to believe, faith is all the evidence we need. If you can believe God sent His Son Jesus to die on the cross for your sins and then raised Him from the dead, then you can have faith to believe everything God has done and said. Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is thee arm of the Lord revealed? If you choose to believe everything God had recorded in His Bible, then God will be able to reveal His power to you. Most people get everything backwards, they want God to demonstrate Himself and then they will believe. God wants to have fellowship with you, He wants to converse with you but you must believe this is so. The first time I heard God’s voice I didn’t even know it was Him, I thought it was me thinking to myself. As mere humans we are accustomed to hearing with our ears and seeing with our eyes but not our hearts. Your heart and your spirit are synonymous with each other and it has ears and eyes. If you can see something with your spirit, that’s called a vision and if you hear God with your spirit, that’s called a revelation. John 16:13 When the Holy Spirit of truth has come, He will lead you into all truth, and whatsoever He will hear, He will speak it to us. The Holy Spirit will speak but you won‘t hear Him with your natural ears. The Holy Ghost has a voice and He communes via revelation. A revelation is much like a thought but it enters your spirit not your mind. God has a way of speaking to us like no human can, it‘s not so much what He says, it‘s how He says it. God has a distinct way of speaking like no man can, and what He says always agrees with what He spoke in His holy book. His voice appears as thoughts not common to man and yet easily understood. One day I was praying in the spirit and when I stopped I could clearly hear God‘s thoughts and here is what He said. Renewing your mind will reduce the size of the battlefield. Something sounded familiar about what He said and later I found in the book of Romans chapter twelve what He was telling me. Renewing our mind is a process we use to think more like how God thinks. The more we renew our mind, the more real He becomes, I know Him better than I know my own self.
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There is only one Son who was born the righteousness of God and He was given the name Jesus. As you are well aware, Jesus did not begin His existence in Bethlehem. When He was born of the virgin He began His life as a human being.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God. All things were made by Him. There is only one God but He manifests as the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost. In Bethlehem the Word was made flesh and He is called Jesus. Anytime you read the New Testament of your Bible and it makes reference to the Word, it is referring to Jesus. Jesus spoke to Philip and said, if you know Me then you should know the Father. How do we get to know the Father, Philip did not have exclusive rights to such information. Every believer has a right to all the promises of God. When Jesus became a man, He did not cease from being the Word, the Word dwelt among us. Now according to spiritual law, a man is known by his word. If we want to know a certain man, just listen to him until he reveals himself. John 4:25 The woman said: I know that Messiah is coming, which is called Christ: when He is come, He will tell us all things. Jesus did not hide His identity but only those who believed the prophets were looking for Him. If you believe the Messiah has come then you must believe He will tell you all things. Jesus was sent to represent the will of the Father, He and the Father are one. Put away your preconceived methods of how you think God will reveal things to you. The Lord will tell us all things but it must be on His terms, we don‘t get to make the rules. Only God can do that, after all it‘s His program. God‘s way of doing things is a true blessing, now we don‘t have to figure out how to do what He has ordained for us. When men settle on a certain method of communicating with Jesus, every man will have his way and few will ever agree with each other. This is religion, man‘s feeble attempt at interpreting God and His will. Revelation 2:11 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Holy Spirit is saying. Pay attention to what Jesus is saying here, He said if a man has an ear. He is not referring to our natural ears, He said ear, not ears. A man doesn‘t hear God with his ears, they hear Him with their ear. What is this ear Jesus is referring to? It is the ear of our spirit. All living men have this ear when they are born-again. A few have persisted and allowed the Holy Spirit an opportunity to reveal things to their ear. Most Christians can‘t hear Jesus because they have not been baptized with the Holy Ghost. Once a man is filled with the Holy Ghost he has an ear to hear. The Holy Spirit has a one track mind, He will only speak whatever He hears the Father say. Whatever the Spirit says to one it will bear witness to everyone who has the Holy Ghost. Jesus never intended to be a mystery to mankind, so He sent the Holy Ghost to reveal Him to whosoever has an ear. The Holy Spirit does not have a voice, He uses your conscience to hear what He speaks. Our conscience is the voice of our spirit, so how do we know the difference between our thoughts and the voice of the Holy Ghost? When the Lord speaks to a man it sounds like his own thoughts, but the difference is how the Holy Spirit says things. It is never the way we would frame things, He has His own expressions. If you don’t meet Jesus in this life you will never meet Him! Jesus is looking to meet every man, woman and child, so if you don’t get to meet Him in this life it’s your fault. You will never know how much He loves you and what He had to do in order to save you. He is more anxious to meet you than you are to meet Him. God is so anxious to meet you that He became a man just like us, He came down to our level. So, who qualifies to meet God?
Mathew 11:25 Lord You have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes. The wise and prudent are people who think they know everything, they think they are so intelligent they know more than God. God cannot reveal anything to them because they have no humility. They even go as far as writing books about what they think about God and they call it the “gospel truth”. One woman who claimed to be a prophet wrote a book titled “The Lost Years of Christ”. She claimed that she had revelation concerning Jesus that no one else had, I don’t think even God had these revelations. God reveals Himself to “babes”, these are people who are honest. They know nothing about God and they depend on Him to reveal Himself. All men need to meet Jesus but it must be on His terms, that way men will meet the true and living God. John 14:23 And Jesus said: if a man love Me, he will keep My words; and My Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. How does a man know if God comes and begins to live within him? When God lives within a person He will surely reveal Himself. You cannot have God in you and not be aware of His presence. God has a very strong influence on our conscience, we begin to have thoughts that are not our own. God is a Spirit and we are a spirit, therefore we can hear His thoughts. I don‘t always “feel“ God but I know He lives within me because the Bible says He does. God comes and makes His abode within us, it‘s all for not if I ignore Him! He hears everything we say and our words come from our thoughts. Perhaps we should be watchful of what comes out of our mouth. God will not be mocked, we cannot hide anything from Him. Ephesians 4:30 Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. The word grieve means to make sad or make sorry. How do we grieve the Holy Ghost? Corrupt communication that comes out of our mouth. It grieves the Holy Ghost when we cuss and swear or when we belittle a person with slander and judgement. When you begin to speak evil of someone you can feel the Holy Spirit becoming uncomfortable, but if you persist in your endeavor you will lose your sensitivity to the Spirit. You cannot treat God as if He is a mere man, nobody is worthy of all the praise the Lord rightly deserves. The greatest honor we will ever have in this life is to meet our Creator. When we invite Him into our life He is with us forever so this demands a whole new attitude. We cannot have two masters, we can‘t try to please the devil and our Lord at the same time. We cannot have two masters, we will love the one and hate the other. Hello Jesus. Shortly after lucifer the angel was created, the fool wanted to be like God. He openly declared his intentions and it cost him his place in Heaven forever, he will never see Heaven again. He was cast down to earth as lightning and when God created man the devil wasted no time in seeking man’s allegiance. If he could get the man to obey him just once, man would become his servant. The devil commanded a snake to entice the woman and then the man to defy God. The devil took the man’s title and he became the god of this world and he changed all the rules. The devil never gave up his quest to be god and he will do anything he can to have subjects.
Psalm 106:25 Israel murmured in their tents and harkened not unto the voice of the Lord. When Moses led Israel out of Egypt the way was hard on them because they had never traveled before. They were slaves in Egypt for four hundred years and now they struggled to deal with their freedom. They complained about the heat, the cold, the food and they were convinced God led them in the wilderness to die. Do you know what all of their murmuring got them? More years in the wilderness where all the older people would die. Complaining and moaning is praise to the devil. He initiates hardships and then waits for the whining and crying to begin. The devil is a god but he is the opposite of the living God. The devil has been judged and his fate is sealed, there is absolutely no comparison or love in him. Mathew 15:8 This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips; but their heart is far from Me. Every man‘s lifestyle will prove who they worship, a man need not identify the devil in order to praise him! We can sin with saying a word, sin to the devil is the sign of a follower. Before a man is born-again he ignorantly worships the devil, he has no clue who his spiritual father is. It is vitally important that a child of God deals with the old habits of the flesh. We cannot talk like we use to, we must omit words like luck, sick and lack and every other thing the devil receives as praise. James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. This is very simple to understand, when we speak God‘s Word we are blessed, when we speak the words of a godless world we must deal with the curse. Jesus has redeemed His people from the curse, but you may still have it if you want it. God and the devil are not moved by what you mean, they are moved by what we say. If you are a born-again child of God and you say “I‘m sick“, you essentially are calling God a liar. On the other hand you are saying Jesus never destroyed the work of the devil. Charles Capp said “I told my people they could have what they say but they been saying what they have”. When you openly say with Jesus stripes I am healed, you are praising the Lord because you believe what He did for you. One day Kenneth Copeland spoke to God and said, Lord I hate the devil so can I hurt him? God replied: Just do him the way you do Me, don‘t believe a word he says! Wanna hurt the devil‘s feeling? Don‘t believe a word he says. Wanna bless your Lord? Believe everything He says. I go out of my way to give the Lord the most of my day. I don‘t have the time to pay attention to the devil, he has nothing to say to me. Jesus knew from the beginning that He would be put to death and be raised again. Jesus knew He would be in hell for three days and then the Father would rescue Him. Jesus could not come out of hell under His own power, He was a man and so He was just as powerless as a man. If He had disobeyed the Father or committed any sin, He would still be in hell! Jesus knew He would spend three miserable days and nights in hell because the prophets foretold what He would need to endure.
Acts 2:27 You will not leave My soul in hell, neither will You suffer Your Holy One to see corruption. When a man died during Bible days his body would begin to decay after the third day. David said the Holy One would not see corruption or decay. Jesus would be resurrected before His body that day lay in the tomb could begin to deteriorate. If you will recall the day Jesus was called to raise Lazarus from the dead, his sister Martha doubted He could because her brother was beginning to “stink”. Lazarus had been dead for more than three days and his body was decomposing. Technically, Jesus did not raise Lazarus from the dead, Jesus said: the Father in Me, He does the works. Mathew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale‘s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, he could not get out by his own might. After three days the Lord got Jonah out of the whale‘s belly. Jonah was totally dependent on God for his deliverance. So now Jesus would be in hell for three days and three nights and He could not get out on His own might. When Jonah was in the belly of the whale he was dead, on the third day the whale puked him out onto dry land. God commanded the whale to vomit Jonah out of his belly and he finished what the Lord gave him to do. Now Jesus is in hell and He is dead, remember what death is in the Bible, it always means separation. Jesus is in hell and He is suffering such anguish we can‘t comprehend just what He is enduring. Jesus cannot get Himself out of hell and because He has stepped out of time, He doesn‘t know when his time will be up. There is no day or night in hell, there is only torment that surpasses our imagination. Night and day are measured by man‘s twenty-four hours in a day, but in hell there is only torment. Acts 2:24 God has raised up Jesus, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it. Jesus could not get Himself free but He knew the Father would come for Him, He had no watch or clock, He just knew the Father was coming, Jesus was in deep agony and despair but He knew it would be worth every drop of His blood and every pain when He was called out of the pit. When we die, our soul will go immediately to the Father and abide with Him until we go back to the earth and reclaim our bodies. When we die we do not have the power to reach Heaven but there is nothing to be concerned about, an angel will escort our spirit and soul to Heaven. We will not stay in hell for any time at all. Jesus paid our penalty and gave us a free ride to the throne of God. |
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