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Jose Wrote: Hello Brothers and Sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ: Part of my ministry in the service to the Body of Christ, is to take my twelve years of studying the New Testament in its original Greek, and brings it forth to the believer in a structure, which is simple and easy to understand. I believe that the church today is deficient in four areas. These are the four areas that I endeavor to tackle. (I have taken excerpts from past teachings that hit briefly upon these four areas, in order to give you a sample of what's on this web site.) 1) The most vital need of the believer is obtain the revelation of Jesus Christ in his or her life. God has not given to us blessings, miracles, and things. God gave us one thing, His Son Jesus Christ. The church spends most of its time asking God for things. We fail to realize that all of these things reside inside the Son of God who dwells in our hearts. When Jesus is revealed within us, all of these blessings are revealed alongside with Him, and become an automatic reality in our lives. CHRIST IS GOD'S POWER!
Let us begin by understanding, that when we ask God to give us His power, in reality we are asking amiss. He has given us His Son! Look with me at the scripture above please. Jesus is the power of God. Therefore when He is revealed in our lives, God's power is revealed with Him, in Him, or alongside with Him. The more that Christ is revealed in our lives, the more that we will automatically operate in the power of God. We don't need power; we need the Son of God to become a reality to us and the power will be ours! Christ is God's Righteousness, God's Redemption, and God's Sanctification.
2) The great responsibility of the church is to bring the fullness of the revelation of the person of Jesus Christ. Total revelation of the Christ takes the active participation of every member. Much of our current church structure does not follow the New Testament model, in that there are a few ministers and many pew sitters.
3) It is essential that believers learn how to walk in the Spirit through the rhema word which is the voice of God. The "logos" describes "the word of God" as an idea or a concept, usually in a written form. The "rhema" however is a personally spoken word of revelation, prophecy, or knowledge, through the mouth of God to us, in regards to a particular circumstance. We have all said at one time or another, "this scripture really leaped out at me"! This is a "rhema word" given you by the Lord to minister to you in a particular situation. Gross misunderstanding and ignorance of the distinction between these two types of "words", lends greatly to the weak state of our church today. Let us look at some examples that will help us to learn.
4) Finally, believers need to understand who they are in Christ, and know that they must live totally from the presence of Christ. We endeavor to lay a basic foundation of the gospel in a simple form, so that believers can find victory in their walks with the Lord. "What It Means To Be In Christ" Let us take the example of a book. Let us judge Christ to be this book. Now let us consider ourselves to be a piece of paper. We take the piece of paper and put into The Book. Whatever happens to the book will happen to us, because we are now "IN THE BOOK." The great Chinese apostle Watchman Nee coined this example. Brother Nee goes on to say that because every believer is "IN CHRIST," whatever happened to Christ happened to us. Therefore when Christ was crucified, we were crucified with Him, because we are "IN HIM". Therefore our sinful nature has been dealt a once and for all mortal blow. When Jesus was buried, we were buried "IN HIM". This means that our whole sinful nature has the potential to decay from us until is totally gone. When Christ was raised from the dead, we were raised "IN HIM", far above in distance and authority over the realm of the demonic, diseases, circumstances and the like to allow us to potentially live a victorious life here on earth. When you go to web site, double click on the thirty or more teaching titles, and the teachings in their entirety, will be displayed to you. Please feel free to download them, print them, and E Mail them out. If you feel that the site will be of benefit to you, please bookmark it because updated teachings are placed on it weekly. Finally you can have the weekly teachings E Mailed to you completely free of charge. Just send me an E Mail with the word "subscribe' on the subject line. I hope that you enjoy the library, as we get the Word of God out to the whole world! Blessings, Jose Alvarez http://christianindiantv.homestead.com/ministryonline.html B'Ann Wrote: I agree with most everything but perhaps we need to go further into the Gifts of the Spirit and the Fruits of the Spirit. A person can seem to manifest the Fruits of the Spirit (for a season) and never have received the Gifts that come from the Father through His Son Jesus. We perhaps could see these fruits in charitable organizations, food drives, disaster relief's, or any situations that call upon our natural sympathy. Any people that help in these situations, whether a Christian or not, are greatly appreciated and often rewarded with awards and such. Nothing wrong with organized "helps" among peoples. However, when we speak of the Christian walk, we must go beyond "empathy" which is inherent in the lower animals, both "empathy and sympathy" which are inherent in people, and move into the realm of compassion. The Scriptures do say this about Christ:
It is in this higher realm of Compassion that Christ did all the things he did. It cannot be compared to benevolent societies which give for a season and which are ruled by guidelines and restraints. We are certainly appreciative of all benevolent organizations which contribute much to our nation/world. However, there are no restraints in Christian love that operates in Compassion. It becomes operable long after the sympathetic has grown weary and long-suffering attributes have to become paramount. The other concern is the differentiation between our standing and our walk in Christ. They are two different offices if you please. When a person is "born again," they receive, by proxy, a standing that they will need when they appear before the Judgment Seat in heaven. This standing is called "justification." It is included in the gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus. Since it is "in" Christ Jesus and bought and paid for by His death on the Cross, it cannot be destroyed or touched by anyone or anything anywhere at anytime. Our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption from "Sin" is accomplished through this act of justification. The "Sin" referred to here is the one transposed upon us by the fall of Adam. Under the Law of the Old Testament, God dealt with this sin by declaring unto His people:
As we move into the New Testament, we find a more earnest revelation/expectation.
The above Scriptures declare our "standing" in Christ. Our "walk" is different and parallels your writings about righteousness, redemption and sanctification. These are a growth process. These are the "sins" that do so easily beset us. As newborn babes in Christ, we are given all we need in our "standing" just as a newborn babe in the natural is born with physical attributes needed to survive. But just as a baby in the natural has to learn to walk (along with many, many aspects of growing up), we have to "learn to walk" as we grow to maturity in Christ. We do see many types of growth in our own individual walk. Yes, it is an individual walk. We are not a bunch of chanting groupies.
Speaking of "chanting", let me share. Perfect love does not have any torment. Let me give this analogy. If a person is prone to steal, in the natural this individual might start chanting the phrase "I shall not steal" over and over each time they enter a store. This would become an exhausting experience and would lead one to either "give up" or stop going into stores. They would look mighty strange talking to themselves, also. On the other hand, if a person has been "delivered" by the power of God, they will enter the store, do their shopping and not even have the "thought/ temptation" to steal enter their mind. They are free from the bondage of "shop-lifting" sin. We put a great "bondage" upon people by not rightly dividing the truth: i.e., the justification of "Sin inherited from Adam" and the daily growth which deals with "sins of the flesh/man." |
PASTOR.M.JAYA KUMAR WROTE: Dear Don Love Ministries, I greet you in the most highly exalted name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I sincerely apologize you for my knocking at your door perhaps at an odd time. If it irritates you anyway or arouses any suspicion about our integrity please delete it from your precious profiles. But I assure you that this letter has a background of longtime fasting and fervant prayers in tears for a door to be opened to support us in our ministry which consists of Gospel outreach ministry , Orphanage and a Christian library. We are a group of elderly pastors with children and grand children. Our aim is to spread the Gospel to every nook and corner of our area and promote the Gospel to every perishing soul. Because out of 1billion Indians only 2% are Christians. People are superstitious with a religious fanaticism. We approach you for your kind supports because Christianity has no any kind of encouragement here. There have been endeavors to root out Christianity from India. Our ministry consists of hunger, mockeries, frustrations, rebellions and persecutions. We have no affiliation with any organizations and we have no support from anywhere. Our church people are very poor and so they cannot support us for a month. They really depend on their potluck. Our fellow pastors are also very poor. They are in need of a monthly support to look after their families. We have been looking after some Orphan children who have a very sympathetic background. Because of our limited resources they regularly spend hungry days. They look gloomy and sick. Some of them getup at midnight's and begin to cry bitterly for, they are hungry. They are in need of parental love and care. We have a Christian library. We collect books, magazines, bibles, tapes etc. for the spiritual growth of our fellow Christians. In this regard I request you to cooperate with us as Lord enables you so that we can do God's work effectively and extensively. You are warm welcome to India. Please pay your esteemed visit to India to see our ministry and encourage us. Please share about us with your fellow pastors and fellow Christians and ask them on our behalf to uphold us in their regular prayers. We sincerely pray for your welfare and prosperity. I found your address on a guest book. I once again very humbly request you to forgive me for having written this letter to you and have a kind consideration to extend your kind cooperation to our ministry. May I await your kind and favorable response. Sincerely, your humble servant in the master's service, Pastor. M. Jaya Kumar. My postal Address is; PASTOR.M.JAYA KUMAR B'ANN WROTE:
The walk here refers to your ministry. I recall that Chairman Cho, Korea, talked about about being "pregnant" with an idea. He would say, "Look at that beautiful table God has given the mission! I am pregnant with the idea of a much needed table." The word pregnant has these connotations according to the Dictionary.
Those that looked at the spot to which Chairman Cho pointed saw nothing but emptiness. Later on, those that gazed at the empty spot, found a table that had arrived as a gift. The things of the Lord are either Gifts of the Spirit or Fruits of the Spirit. I read another book, "The Miracle Is in Your Mouth" by a Baptist minister, John Osteen, after the birth of a daughter with multiple birth defects. He would declare to those that came to his home, "Look at my beautiful, perfect daughter." Of course, people thought him rather "touched" or overcome with grief/guilt. She went from a "vegetable state" to a lovely woman that graduated from a university with honors. I was given this book when we had a daughter born with a heart defect and a prognosis of possibly living to be two years of age if she was kept on life support. I brought her home when she was three months old, free of any life support, and she is now twenty-four years of age. The effects of the stroke she suffered when ten days old still is evident, though not markedly so, and she has a good quality of life. I said all this to get to the idea of being "pregnant" with a child or being "pregnant" with a ministry. They follow much the same principle. I had to bear the child. You have to bear your ministry. I had to carry her for the required time, birth her and walk through the path/shadow of death/ that her illness required whether I wanted to or not. Each step I took, I can assure you I was calling upon Jesus. You are with a wounded people that for generations have had a "heart defect" because they have not freely had the teachings about the love of Jesus. In His place, they have adopted a religion that is somewhat strange to us. You will have to walk in some places with your "children" in Christ that will be as difficult as mine was with my daughter. But it is yours to walk. It is your ministry to birth. I did have support as I watched my daughter struggle but they all "fell by the wayside" and told me that she could not live. I was the only one that said, "I will bring her home and raise her." This will have to be your steadfast heart in regards to your ministry there. You will bring them to the saving knowledge of Jesus and you will raise them to adulthood. The funding will be a frustration because we surely want a little extra in the bank to lean back on, especially if we are in a foreign country. I will share the story of Lourdis and Roberto. They were sent by a church in Puerto Rico to the mountains of Guatemala to be missionaries. About six months after they arrived in the area, when the temperature stayed about 40F all year round, the supporting church had a church fight and stopped the missionary support. They had sent out about twelve couples to different areas to start missions. All the other couples became angry, hurt and disillusioned but Lourdis and Roberto decided to remain there and live exactly as the people did. The natives of the village built them a little hut and a church just as their homes were. They lived in somewhat crude conditions until God released them when she developed a lung infection. They received no funding from outside, just the offerings/food given by their converts/ members. They both were university graduates and he was a professional dancer, extremely talented. They birthed that ministry and stayed long enough to teach and see anointed pastors called from among the people. Where there was just one little church there are now others. It is much easier for the native born people because they already had the language and were accustomed to the climate. Here we see the mustard seed promise, right. I was fortunate to meet them when they came to the United States hunting the "tent man." God sent them to New York to find him. His home and his tent factory was located in Florida, this man named David. However, when God gave them a vision, he was in New York conducting a tent revival. Had they come to Florida, they would have missed him…They were given a huge tent to help the newly called pastor from their little church to establish congregations in surrounding areas--still the mustard seed faith working. To my knowledge, this was their first trip seeking outside help. But they went in obedience to their vision, by faith believing that this large white tent would draw people to it…and in turn to the message of Jesus. Your birthing of your church will be like going down a path that is a treasure hunt. What you need will be provided as you walk down that path. If you stop the walk, you will never find what is around the next bend in the path. What an adventure! You will need your knapsack on your back and the shepherd's stick in your hands as you go. I pray that your support group will become evident but it may just be your converts as was Lourdis and Roberto. If so, your support will come in proportion/ratio to the converts; so, get busy witnessing/converting/delivering. You are covered by our prayers and may others that are to help your ministry become evident. I will leave you with what seems to be a hard saying but one which has great power.
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? WROTE: Question-Comment: My question is, will the saints go through the tribulation, or start out in it and be raptured out of it.My next question is will the people that remain have their head cut off and make heaven after the rapture? B'ANN WROTE: Are you concerned or curious? If you are concerned, you will witness, witness, witness so that people will not have to go through the time immediately following the Rapture. If you are just curious, then shame on you. This will not be a pleasant time for anyone, whether they are sinner or become believers. The bondage of sin is not pleasant to carry in the physical as we can already see from the high medical costs in our nation/world. (There very well may be no welfare system, Medicaid, food stamps, social security, etc., under the man of sin.) It will be "every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost." There will be a hope of salvation during this time. It will not be as under the Old Testament Promise or New Testament Grace through Christ Jesus. (God will not allow His Son and Holy Spirit to be trampled upon any longer and will distance them from the rejection of mankind.) But those who refuse the mark of the beast and make it through this awful time will go under the auspices of the Kingdom Age, whatever the conditions for salvation will then be. Those who die for their faith in Jesus during this time will be assured a place with the redeemed. Concerning those who will be left when the Church is taken, Paul writes:
Notice that God calls this a mystery. There will be a great void when the church/Christ/Holy Spirit are removed from the earth. The only thing that will be left to fill the void is the Scriptures. The hope of those left behind will be the Scriptures. This is why it is so important that "this Gospel of the Kingdom" be published throughout the end-time Church. Remember, God said His Scriptures would never return to Him void.
I don't know about getting their heads cut-off. The Bible does talk about having to take the "mark of the beast" or being refused to buy or sell. How the regime under the beast decides to practice genocide isn't clear but we already see in our present time ethnic cleansing that is brutal and senseless. Considering the beast will be completely insane/possessed (Christ and the Holy Spirit will be gone as shown in II Thessalonians), it will not be a good time to be alive. We [the Church] are not to fear or worry about this day for God hid it from us as a mystery. Our parents often hid things from us because it would cause us too much pain to know about them. Our job is to do the Great Commission while we can so that those we love will not have to go through this time--And if they choose to do so, that they might have hope.
DON WROTE: If you want to check out our study of the end time which includes our understanding of the Tribulation Period and what will go down during this time, go to our home page and click on the CLOCK OF THE AGES, MARK THEM, and the link to our study of the Book of Revelation. |
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