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2015/16 Rev Intensive Week 12 - Philadelphia

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Guarding of our Hearts While Fasting (13 min)

Fasting increases your
spiritual experience.  It speeds things
up and increases your capacity…taking you deeper, further, faster.  This is great for the heart.  Fasting is “Jesus 101”:
Matthew 9:14-15  Then the disciples of
John came to Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but
Your disciples do not fast?"  15  And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends
of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days
will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will
fast.
 
Matthew 6:16-18  "Moreover, when you fast, do not be like
the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that
they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their
reward.  17  But you, when you fast, anoint your head and
wash your face,  18  so that you do not appear to men to be
fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who
sees in secret will reward you openly.
 
Fasting really
works.  Every major religion fasts.  Not all fasting is Jesus-centered.  We have to understand when entering into
fasting that we are flinging the gate of our heart further open.  We need to guard what we let in during
fasting.  When Jesus fasted, satan came
to war against it. 
Luke 4:1-2  Then Jesus, being filled with
the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the
wilderness,  2  being tempted for forty days by the devil.
And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was
hungry.
 
This quick message is
about how to guard our hearts during fasting and get victory to increase in
this season in the right way.  Increase
IS happening, which direction are we increasing in?  Going fast is only good if you are going in
the right direction!

2015/16 Rev Intensive Week 11 - Sardis

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The Oil of Matthew 25 (Parable of the 10 Bridesmaids) (57 min)

Oil is what is produced
when we partner with...wrestle with...the Lord:
 
Genesis 28:17-18
 And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none
other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"  18
 Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put
at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
 
You are going to need it for the night that is coming.  Watchmen have the
most oil, since they have committed to encountering the Lord day and night:
 
Isaiah 62:6-7  I
have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace
day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent,  7
 And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a
praise in the earth.
 
In the parable of the 10
Bridesmaids, there are three end time roles presented to the church:
 foolish bridesmaid, wise bridesmaid, and the hidden role of WATCHMAN.
 Be a watchman and you will be assured to have plenty of oil!

Standing With Jesus in the Judgments (58 min)

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The Spirit of the Law and the Letter of the Law (49 min)

Jesus didn't come to do away with the Law, but rather to help YOU
fulfill it on a deeper level than the Pharisees.  Many preachers in our
day teach a false grace message...they teach you got saved so you don't have to
do anything more...just float along until you die and you'll be good...Jesus
loves you just as you are.  Jesus paid for MUCH more than you to stay the
same.  You got saved so you could become different!  Jesus loves you
too much to let you sit in your sins.  The false grace message is a lie designed
to steal greatness from you forever:
Matthew 5:17-20  "Do not think that I came to destroy
the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.  18
 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or
one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.  19
 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and
teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever
does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
 20  For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the
kingdom of heaven.
Following Jesus in this
reality is a NARROW road:
 
Matthew 7:13-14  "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is
the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who
go in by it.  14  Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way
which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
On one side of the road
is the ditch of false grace, but on the other side of the road is the ditch of
legalism, or works-based salvation...equally deadly!  This is what Paul
said:
 
Galatians 5:1-5  Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which
Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
 2  Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ
will profit you nothing.  3  And I testify again to every man who
becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.  4
 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by
law; you have fallen from grace.  5  For we through the Spirit
eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
So how do we reconcile these two statements about the law?  The answer is
in the power of God inside of you.  Jesus made it possible for the AUTHOR
of the law to live inside of you.  The helper, the comforter, the third
person of the the trinity is IN the believer.  If we let the Spirit who
wrote the law lead us, we do BETTER than the written law!  
 
Romans 8:1-4  There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according
to the Spirit.  2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
has made me free from the law of sin and death.  3  For what the law
could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own
Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the
flesh,  4  that the righteous requirement of the law might be
fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit.
 
This is great news, but we have to respond to it.  We have to actively
"wait" in partnership with the Spirit...contending for righteousness.
 There is a specific way to "wait with the Spirit for
righteousness"...it is called the Sermon on the Mount.
Don't fall into either ditch...learn how to grow in holiness in the only way
that really works:
2 Corinthians 3:17-18  Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.  18  But we all, with
unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of
the Lord.

2015/16 Rev Intensive Week 10 - Thyatira

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2015/16 Rev Intensive Week 9 - Pergamos

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The Appointing of Deacons in Acts 6 (13 min)

Clarification and development of something I mentioned in Rev Intensive last night.  Here are the relevant passages:Acts 5:11-16  So great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things.  12  And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon's Porch.  13  Yet none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly.  14  And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,  15  so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.  16  Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.Acts 6:1-8  Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.  2  Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.  3  Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business;  4  but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word."  5  And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,  6  whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them.  7  Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.  8  And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.Acts 8:1  Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

2015/16 Rev Intensive Week 8 - Smyrna

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