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The Real Cause of The Conflict In The Church (35 mins)

The Church is dividing at the moment over immigration.

This isn't the first issue, and it won't be the last. A storm is rising. We don't want to stop the storm that tests our foundation. We want to pass the test.

Matthew 7:24“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25“and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27“and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” 28And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, 29for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Fasting, Spiritual Violence,and the Sermon on the Mount

Released in late 2014

The Danger of Cross-less Christianity

Preparing for the Coming Storm (Released 7.12.15)

The Delusion in the Church

Lukewarm is delusional and deadly. no one gets wholehearted and on fire on accident. It is actually safer for the cold, or unsaved, than the lukewarm right now. Do you know why?Revelation 3:15“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.16“So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

Direction (47 min)

Direction is everything in following Jesus.  Jesus didn't call us to simply get a new location in salvation, but a new DIRECTION.  To be "born again" means to begin again...in a new direction, with new possibilities and capabilities.

This is super important for those fasting right now.  What direction are you fasting into?

This is also a prelude to upcoming teaching on Laodicea.

2015/16 Rev Intensive Week 7 - Sermon on the Mount and Ephesus

All notes, teaching materials, and homework can be found here:

https://goo.gl/cdsWy8

2015/16 Rev Intensive Week 6 - Sermon on the Mount Pt 1

All notes, teaching materials, and homework can be found here:

https://goo.gl/cdsWy8

Greatness in Humility: Why Dying to Yourself REALLY Matters in the End Time (52 min)

Luke 14:7-11  So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them:  8  "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him;  9  and he who invited you and him come and say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.  10  But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.  11  For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

 

Revelation 3:7-10  "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, 'These things says He who is holy, He who is true, "HE WHO HAS THE KEY OF DAVID, HE WHO OPENS AND NO ONE SHUTS, AND SHUTS AND NO ONE OPENS":  8  "I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.  9  Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.  10  Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

The Narrow Road of End Time Joy and Safety (55 min)

The tragic result of a lack of teaching of Revelation to the Church is a lack of understanding of where the safe place is in the unfolding tribulation.  There IS a safe place...it is promised over and over:

Revelation 3:10  Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Luke 21:36  Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."

There is a narrow road...a "one thing" quality to getting to the safe place, described in Psalm 27:

Psalms 27:4-5  One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.  5  For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.

Because there is so little Bible confidence on this subject in the Church, there are two main ditches many are falling into on both sides of the narrow road of end time safety and joy.  These are the two ditches:

1. over-optimism...those who say nothing to really do, God loves me so I am good...nope...this eschatology doesn't hold up to ANY Biblical scrutiny:

Amos 9:10  All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, 'The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.'

You must choose your end time safety, just as Lot had to CHOOSE to flee to Zoar and not look back. Many are not choosing because they think there is no danger.  They believe God will just magically make them agree with His plans...this isn't faith, it is presumption.  This is a very deep ditch.

BUT, there is an equally dangerous ditch, called 

2. FEAR.  Conspiracy thinking has left many who actually see the trouble thinking very wrong things about what to DO about the trouble:

Isaiah 8:11-15  For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:  12  "Do not say, 'A conspiracy,' Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.  13  The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread.  14  He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  15  And many among them shall stumble; They shall fall and be broken, Be snared and taken."

Conspiracy thinking, though it has elements of insight, lacks REVELATION...because it doesn't offer the NARROW PLAN of greatness, joy, and safety of the end times.

Both of these ditches... presumption and the paralyses of fear...are meant to keep us off of the narrow road of REVELATION.  This message is intended to shine some light on the road that will leave many more joyful in the time of shaking than they could really imagine right now...but the joy comes from seeing the trouble for what it really is!

The Sermon on the Mount Part 5 - Threshing, Shaking, and the Throne of David (54 min)

The Sermon on the Mount is describing the "threshing and winnowing" process Jesus came to establish to sift the earth to separate out a people who want to live under His leadership forever.  The threshing floor in the Bible becomes the place of night and day prayer to music, called David's Tabernacle.  This night and day calling on God ENTHRONED God in Israel during David's reign.  

Jesus is going to sit on David's Throne....Jesus will operate His government the same way David did...by ENTHRONING Himself on the praises of His people.  This is dynamically connected to the threshing floor of the Sermon on the Mount.  This message explores the connection of these concepts to the very purpose Jesus came to accomplish:

Matthew 3:10-12  And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.  11  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  12  His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

The Sermon on the Mount Part 4 - The Antidote to Falling Away (55 min)

The Sermon on the Mount is about learning to practically pursue a "love of the truth."  This will protect the end time Church...called the Bride...from the delusion that is, even now, infecting the Church and the world.  This was promised to happen.  We desperately need to learn to love the truth....

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12  Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,  2  not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.  3  Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,  4  who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.  5  Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?  6  And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.  7  For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.  8  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.  9  The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,  10  and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  11  And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,  12  that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Sermon on the Mount Part 3 - The SAFETY of Generosity (52 minutes)

The Sermon on the Mount teaches us how to climb God's Holy Mountain to safety BEFORE the storm of the Great Tribulation makes landfall.  One of the key aspects of safety is generosity.  God doesn't need your money.  You need to break the heart ties to it before the antichrist uses your fear of money against you.

 Generosity is safety over and over in the Bible:

 Isaiah 32:7-15  Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice.  8  But a generous man devises generous things, And by generosity he shall stand.  9  Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; You complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech.  10  In a year and some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gathering will not come.  11  Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists.  12  People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.  13  On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;  14  Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks— 15  Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

 We live in the generation that will see the fullness of this promise...

Sermon on the Mount Part 2 - Introduction to the Bridal Paradigm (46 min)

The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is really telling the story of a wedding...our wedding.  The end time wedding is about legal family position, becoming sons of God.  All of creation is longing for this to happen.  There are two enemies warring against this: the gates of hell and our own flesh!

The Sermon on the Mount teaches us how to deal with our flesh and put on righteousness...glory...that we will wear forever.

If you care about the clothes you wear now, you will REALLY care about what you have chosen to wear forever!

Revelation 19:7-8  Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready."  8  And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Sermon on the Mount 101: an Overview of Matthew 5, 6, and 7 (51 min)

Sermon on the Mount 101: an Overview of Matthew 5, 6, and 7 (51 min)

Ignoring the Trouble (27 min)

Worry about tomorrow tends to keep us from changing...it is easier to ignore the trouble we see coming another day.  There is a cost for ignoring the trouble of today.

Grace FOR Holiness (25 min)

Grace FOR Holiness