The typical healing movement is based upon a misinterpretation of Isaiah 53, the statement “By his stripes, we are healed.” And healers have historically used that to mean that in the atonement there is physical healing for everybody. That is a gross misinterpretation of Isaiah 53. Christ didn’t die for the ills of the body, He died for the sin of the soul..

We plant and water, but the Lord gives life. Verse 47b: “The Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.” Jesus said, “I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18).

The church is a people who are sojourners, strangers, exiles, refugees in this world (Hebrews 11:13; 1 Peter 2:11). A happy, peaceful, loving people who swear allegiance to a foreign king, Jesus Christ, and to no other.

What does it mean to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit?

It means, if you truly repent and are baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit will be given to you, and will make a difference in your life. From that day on you will have the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:9

A clear implication for all of us fathers is that we were designed to display the fatherhood of God, to our children, our families, and the world around us.. And that implies that we today learn to be fathers by watching God father his children. Children today learn what God’s fatherhood is like largely by watching us.

A very important change has occurred in the way God forms his people. In the Israel of old God formed his people through natural offspring. But in the Church, the true Israel, God is forming his people not by natural kinship but through supernatural conversion to faith in Christ.

Christians, according to the New Testament, are men and women who know exactly where they are and what they believe. As the apostle Peter put it when he wrote a letter to Christians later on in his life: “Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you” (1 Pet. 3:15). That is the basic point from which we start.

Jesus was crucified on the grounds of blasphemy. He claimed to be the Son of God (Luke 22:70–71). The Jewish rulers rejected this role of God in Jesus’ life. Therefore, if a person rejects the role of God in the life of Jesus, that person supports the charge of blasphemy.

WE MUST BE READY FOR THE BATTLES THAT RAGE ALL AROUND US AND IN US. DO NOT GO INTO BATTLE UNPREPARED, THE SPIRIT WORLD WE DO NOT SEE DOES AFFECT US HERE ON EARTH. OUR ARMOR IS SPIRITUAL AND OUR BATTLES ARE SPIRITUAL.

“Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.”