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“Now fear the Lord and serve Him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua, at the end of his successful career, had to confront Israel with their choices. If you look at his words, they tell you that at the end of the life of Joshua, after the second generation had entered and conquered the promised land, this second generation was still holding onto the gods of Egypt and worse than that, they were starting to adopt the new gods of the new land of Canaan. It is tragic but a reality that Joshua was faced with the problem of having to challenge the people as to their preference of worship and had to separate himself from them if needed. However, for Joshua, he was spared the agony of separating himself from the generation he had led, for they replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods! … We too will serve the Lord, because He is our God.” But it is written in Judges 2.10-11: After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the Lord nor what He had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals. All the hard work of the generation that followed Joshua was lost within one generation… because of the peace that they had won and established.
This is a reality that repeats itself with every move of God in the current church. No sooner than the founding patriarchs are gone, that movement begins to devolve until a few generations later the founders would not be able to recognize their movement. It is called progress.
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“What is in man that he would not believe God?” That was a question a homeless old man once asked me at the end of one of our Sunday services almost 10 years ago. This old man used to stand by a highway pointing up to the sky in order to tell people to look up for Christ is coming. That was his contribution to the sharing of the Gospel. And whatever you think of his method, at least he contributed. His name was John, but I never caught his last name. The last time I saw him was by the roadside. John standing there in rags with a beard that made him look like a biblical figure, pointing up to Heaven to all the cars passing by. A week later, I heard he had died. But his question has always been with me. “What is in man that he would not believe God?” From Adam to now, there is something in our nature that causes us… not to believe. Many call it the sin nature… but the unbelief was there before sin was… that was why sin came… because we did not believe. It is not the other way around. We did not not believe because we sinned. No, we sinned because we did not believe.
So even though Jesus has come and gone, and by His sacrifice has dealt with sin once for all… the mystery of lawlessness and unbelief remains. So it should be no surprise that even those whom the Lord Himself served the bread and the cup to would not believe on resurrection morning that He had risen and that they were to go to Galilee to meet Him. Hence, what we are to confront first is not sin, it is not Satan, it is not other men who do not believe… but it is the unbelief within us first. The unbelief that was in Adam that led him to sin; the unbelief that was in the eleven that even three years of personal discipleship by the Master Himself could not erase; the unbelief that no miracle, no words of wisdom or persuasion, and no threat of punishment can erase. For the miracles, the messages and the threats never erased the unbelief from Adam and the eleven, so that when it came to the church, they still did not believe what they were told and still did what they wanted… and you can throw in the millions of Israelites who were set free from Egypt. So then it is not anyone else who is our problem, but we ourselves are the problem through the unbelief within us… others like Satan just simply exploit it, but they are not the cause of it.
If we can overcome this unbelief intrinsic to our being… then we will be in the position to undo the mistakes of our forefathers whose unbelief caused them not to go to Galilee, not to go into Canaan and not to stay away from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and its fruit of death.
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What does it take? What happens in us who are the disciples of Jesus, that after spending three years with the Master in Person, hearing Him teach, watching Him live and perform unheard of miracles before our eyes that we will still not believe? The eleven spent three years with Him, watched the water turn to good wine, saw the storms calmed, the dead raised, the blind restored and the deaf hearing, and found themselves doing similar things every time they were sent out. Three of them saw Him speak with Moses and Elijah about the days to come, and heard the Father’s voice command them to listen to Him. And as they continued their walk with Him, they came to experience and witness the things happening as He said, they went to Jerusalem and He was captured, tortured, crucified and killed… exactly the way He said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the law. They will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles, who will mock Him and spit on Him, flog Him and kill Him.”
Everything Jesus said to them happened exactly in every detail as He said it, and they were witnesses of it. So when He is dead and buried, and three days later they heard the women come in with some story of the tomb being empty and angels telling them to tell the disciples to go to Galilee because Jesus has risen and He has gone ahead to Galilee… and they said, “There you will see Him, just as He told you.” Perhaps, maybe, just maybe, the last six words of Mark 10.34 might just suddenly take on a whole new importance… “Three days later He will rise.” So alright, Peter had learnt his lesson… and instead of running off to Galilee like he did stepping out of the boat, and instead of saying anything too rashly like he did about not denying Jesus… he ran off to the tomb to check it out for himself and John followed. God only knows where James was.
And you are Peter, you see the tomb empty, you see the linen… and you go away, wondering to yourself what had happened. John went also and saw and believed… and then the disciples went back to their homes.
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From Pastor Eugene Dulanas:
Joy, a college student and a regular attendee of our Friday fellowship, had high fever for more than a week. Last Friday night, her twin sister, Grace, asked us to pray for Joy because she could not keep any food down as she was vomiting all that she ate until blood came out. Her parents wanted to take her back to the hospital, but Joy refused and insisted on prayers instead. So, during the service, we prayed for her. Joy was healed the following day. I met her yesterday and she told me that even the tumour near her breast, which was scheduled for operation, was healed!
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The purpose of the Kingdom of Israel was to establish a nation that would be a forerunner of what the Kingdom of God would be like. The Kingdom of Israel was not the ultimate plan of God in His dreams of empires, but merely the first of a prototype, a model, of what He was going to bring forth through Jesus Christ and His church. Everything, from the promise of Israel to Abraham to Israel’s formation and its journeys, its rebellion and its demise, was a figurative representation of how the Kingdom of God would be formed.
Just as Jesus was promised to Satan to come through Eve to crush his head, so Israel came by fulfilment of a promise that would crush a major nation belonging to those aligned with Satan, Egypt, in their worship of false gods. Just as Israel would be delivered miraculously by the power of God through one man without charge or cost to Israel, so all who will form the Kingdom of God are delivered from the power of sin and death through one Man, Jesus Christ, by the power of God without loss or charge to those who are invited into the Kingdom of God. For no disciple chooses Jesus Christ, but it is Jesus Christ who chooses us. And as God spoke to Israel from the mountain in Sinai, and to Moses and the elders on top of that mountain, so likewise, when those who were the first generation of the Kingdom of God were ready, they were to be spoken to from the top of a mountain, with some even spending 40 days on top of that mountain by God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The pattern of the establishment of the Kingdom of God was foreshadowed through Israel. (Just as Israel would be a kingdom of irresistible power and unheard of prosperity, so it would be for the Kingdom of God.)
That is why it is written of its practices: Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. And of the religious services of Israel, it is written: They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in Heaven. And of its laws, it is written: The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves.
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“I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for Me?“
From the beginning the disciples have taught us by their example to live in fear and trembling of what men could do to those who follow Jesus, as well as being in fear of the elements as when they were caught in a storm, or when Jesus said things that were offensive to the Sanhedrin, and when the Lord Himself was arrested they all fled.
And after the crucifixion, they were hiding in locked rooms rather than going to Galilee or keeping vigil at the tomb. It is as if this spirit of fear never left the church. When Paul arrived at Jerusalem in Acts 21, the elders were afraid of the presence of Paul and his effect on those who were zealous for the law, saying, “What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, so do what we tell you.” Individuals showed great courage, like Stephen and Paul, but the impression given to the reader of the Gospels and the book of Acts is that there were times of fear and there were times of bravado and courage, but the times of fear never left them even after they had seen the risen Lord and had been baptised in the Holy Spirit. Not even when they had become a church that could heal all the sick who were brought to them as in Acts 5.16 could they withstand the outbreak of persecution of Acts 8, and Saul was able to go from house to house to drag men and women to prison.
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The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His Being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the Author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Jesus clearly said, “I and the Father are One. …understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.” “Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father.” What then is the proof that which Jesus said is indeed true and that which the writer of the Hebrews said is true? If we were to argue from the point of faith and believers, then the argument is not valid because it is subject to prejudice. Even disciples who can testify and say that they not only believe, but know that all these claims are true, can be contested by those who are not believers or disciples, for all can have their own opinion and their own experiences and therefore their own testimony.
So, who can best testify that there is truly a Christ who is the true Christ, who is One with God the Creator? The best testimony and witness of the truth and value of a person or a system or an object is not who or what praises him or them, but rather, who and what seeks to imitate and destroy them. There are many people who have painted portraits, but how many counterfeiters would bother making a counterfeit of them? But the Mona Lisa… how many would love to make a perfect counterfeit of it? There are very few counterfeiters of currencies that are not worth much… but it is always the dream of counterfeiters to produce the perfect USD100 bill, and indeed many go to great lengths and expense to do so. Now… would a $100 counterfeit bill be worth anything if the real $100 bill was worthless and had to be withdrawn from circulation? No, the only way a counterfeiter can profit is to make enough to imitate the real without destroying the real.
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What is a Holy Spirit’s Workshop [HSW]?
It is not a church, but an adjunct to the church, in the same way as a car dealership has a showroom and a service depot, so the HSW is like the service department of the church.
How is it different?
HSWs are open Monday to Friday during business hours for dispensing salvation, healing and deliverance through the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so that those in need on that day do not have to wait for the church to open or a crusade to come before they are ministered to. Those who are healed or delivered are then referred back to their local church. Those who are saved or do not have a local church are then kept by the pastor running the HSW and added to his church.
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From Pastor Enock Omogo:
A girl, Lillian, was sick with chronic cough and severe headaches. We prayed over her and she got well. She stopped coughing, throwing up, having headaches or diarrhoea, and she is no longer in pain. Then she asked for something to eat and drink, and after that she started speaking in a language that we did not comprehend.
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The work of the Holy Spirit has always been focussed on one thing – “He will bring glory to Me by taking from what is Mine and making it known to you.” As such, anyone who thinks that an elect of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Spirit at the expense of the Father and the Son has never been elected by the Holy Spirit and does not know who the Holy Spirit is. It is when you understand that the Holy Spirit in Acts 13.2 had to set Barnabas and Saul aside for the work He had for them, not because the Holy Spirit wanted to glorify Himself, but because by Acts 13 the eleven had already been distracted from the primary work of glorifying Jesus and were beginning to focus on the glory of the church and, in particular, they began to hold to their Jewishness rather than let go of their Jewishness even more.
For when the Holy Spirit moved on Cornelius’ household in Acts 10, initially Peter refused to go until sent by the Holy Spirit, and when the Jewish believers heard about it, they criticised Peter, saying, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.” And after Peter’s explanation, it is written: When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
It is evident that by Acts 13, there were enough Jewish circumcised believers in the church who never saw the church as the vehicle through which Israel would be restored to the former glory, and their zeal for things Jewish increased until Acts 21.20 where they openly confirmed, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.” After 15 or 20 years, perhaps more, the discipleship program of the Jerusalem church was that they raised up believers who were zealous for the law and not for Jesus. It was in anticipation of this drift of their focus from Jesus to Israel that the Holy Spirit set aside Barnabas and Saul in the hope that they would stand the ground and prevent the slide of the church in Jerusalem back to a watered down form of Judaism that would leave them powerless, and to prevent her powerlessness from contaminating the other churches… especially the Gentile churches.
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