Steve and Diana discuss the beginning of the Christian church and how the Holy Spirit immediately establishes that Truth is Important! The greater the Light, the greater the accountability.  What you can do in the Outer Court will get you killed in the Inner Court. The event with the immediate deaths of Annanias and Sapphira results in the fear of the Lord throughout the Church, and then miracles follow. 
 
Simon the Sorcerer is rebuked for thinking he could buy the power of God, and it’s revealed that his heart is full of bitterness and iniquity. Our zeal can’t cover our motives.
 
Again, it’s about the heart: Paul’s zeal was in direct opposition to the God he believed he was serving until He encountered Him in a totally disarming and humbling moment. But that moment led to his maturing, which then led to his dismantling the exact structure of Law he was initially trying to defend!
 
When the Light shines on us, it reveals what’s already inside of us. Full disclosure means nothing hidden, and it begins when we believe in the resurrection, because Jesus paid for all my darkness. The essence of our spiritual maturation lies in our ever-increasing capacity to know the glorious Son, Jesus Christ.
 
Chronicles is a great reflection of how it goes when we have a heart that diligently seeks Him versus our own ways. Israel wasn’t necessarily always turning from the Lord. They oftentimes were just adding to the Lord. And the priests often became lazy. Hezekiah repents for the sins of Israel, and prays for God’s mercy to allow them to move the day they celebrate Pentecost (they couldn’t get the priests ready in time). God hears his prayer, forgives their sin, and heals the people. They experience a time of peace as they remove the ungodly altars and practices. But then there are more wicked kings throughout the next 130 years, even with Josiah, the good and faithful king, in the middle. We are a funny (and foolish) people.
 
Scripture Readings:
 Tier One—NT:  Acts 1-5, 1 John 1-5, 2 John, 3 John, Jude
 Tier Two—OT: 2 Chronicles 30-36

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU 

School of Jubilee:
youtube.com/schoolofjubilee

Jubilee Company Worship:
http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Steve starts this week’s podcast with Psalm 56:3. When I feel fear, it’s a sign that it’s time to trust. By placing ourselves in the Word of God when we are in fear, it will lead us into faith through great trust (in His power and not our own ability to save ourselves). If we don’t know the Word of God, we will follow fables about Jesus. When we are not constantly in the Word, fables become our primary doctrine. And we add-on things to Jesus’ salvation, which will destroy us rather than save us.
 
This is Peter’s week: John 20-21, Acts 1-4, I Peter and II Peter. We walk his journey of failure and being called back by Jesus in the same manner as he was at first. Once Peter massively fails Jesus, he returns to who he was before he met Jesus: a fisherman with empty nets. When we are face-to-face with our failures, if we don’t return to the Lord, we will return to ourselves in the lie of separation from Him. Yet, in His sovereignty and mercy—“I’ve prayed for you, Peter, that your FAITH WILL NOT FAIL, AND WHEN YOU RETURN, strengthen your brothers.”—the Lord is right there waiting to restore Peter into his calling and inheritance, “Follow me.”
 
Peter’s experience of Jesus (eating, living, breathing with Him for 3 years) did not give him the capacity to confess Christ before a servant girl. In Acts 3, it was the Holy Spirit  Who brought the Word of God forward with power through Peter to witness to the resurrection of Jesus, which is declared in Scripture. And Peter who failed miserably without the Holy Spirit in-dwelling, becomes the father and discipler of the new Church of Jesus Christ in I and II Peter. 
 
The Word shows me ME. It reveals my heart in the mirror of Who Jesus is. It calls me out of darkness (my own self-deception) into His glorious light (the sanctification of Jesus).
 
We are to reflect Christ, not through our gifting, but through our submission. We need to be born again…again.
 
Scripture Readings:
 Tier One – NT: John 20-21, Acts 1-4, 1 Peter 2-5, 2 Peter 1-3
 Tier Two – OT: 2 Chronicles 22-29

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU 

School of Jubilee:
youtube.com/schoolofjubilee

Jubilee Company Worship:
http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

In John 13, we see Peter swear he won’t leave Jesus. Steve and Diana discuss the dichotomy of trying to follow Jesus with our own strength versus a faith that remains regardless of our failings. We will always try to follow Christ first by resourcing ourselves. But when we have failed, He has already prayed for our faith not to fail so that we can return.
 
Jesus didn’t say, “If anyone loves Me, he’ll do exactly what I told them and never make a mistake again.” Rather, He inferred, “You will value my Word even though you cannot perform it.” It’s counterintuitive to submit to God even though we can’t change the circumstances. 
 
I become known by God in the undoing of my self-image. Satan thought for sure he could be important apart from God. In His love for us, God has rescued us through Jesus Christ from believing we could be anything without Him, His glory, and His grace. Peter could not have become the Peter of Acts without his greatest failure. Jesus prayed for him ahead of that moment, and apparently His faith didn’t fail. The good news wasn’t that Peter became perfect…it was that he was perfected in faith through his failings.
 
Scripture Readings:
 Tier One – NT: John 13-19, Hebrews 13, James 1-5, 1 Peter 1
 Tier Two – OT: 2 Chronicles 13-21

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU 

School of Jubilee:
youtube.com/schoolofjubilee

Jubilee Company Worship:
http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Steve and Diana talk about what it takes to run the race of endurance in these last days. John 12:48 says the Word of God will judge us in the last days. Did I uphold His Word above all else? When we see Jesus in the Scriptures, we receive revelation. To see Jesus is to behold Him in His glory. The glory will do one of 2 things to us: it will either undo us unto repentance and sanctification, or we will become blinded and live in blindness to Truth. A house divided cannot stand. Satan loves to create division. If we aren’t listening and hearing our Shepherd’s voice, in His Word, we will be quickly led out of safety into danger and destruction. Satan’s counting on it.
 
Hebrews chapters 11 and 12 encourage the believer to faith. Faith is what begets endurance. The function of faith is to always bring us back to Jesus. The race of endurance is always to be run with Him in front of us. And that’s the joy! Jesus’s joy was to do the will of the Father.
Everything is about the heart’s response, so that the Kingdom that we’re receiving will be with grace to serve Him with reverence and godly fear. Forgiveness must come first, and then the Kingdom.
 
Scripture Readings:
 Tier One – NT: John 7-12, Hebrews 6-12 
 Tier Two – OT: 2 Chronicles 5-12

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU 

School of Jubilee:
youtube.com/schoolofjubilee

Jubilee Company Worship:
http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Jesus was only concerned about doing the Father’s will. The more I put Jesus into a natural mindset as I read Scripture, the more I will miss the point of what He was trying to bring. The Bible is not a book of logic. It is a book of faith.
 
Sonship is not expressed through the exercising of our rights, but rather through the heart that comes to serve as Jesus did. Without our hearts softening like faith-filled children, we will continue to strengthen our own wills to the point of resistance to God and to the ways He is offering to save us from our own unrighteousness.
 
Even though God called David a man of war, He released the vision and provision for the temple to be built. He is a God of peace. And David had no problem trusting that because his heart was in union with God.
 
Scripture Readings:
 Tier One – NT: John 1-6, Titus 1-3, Philemon, Hebrews 1-5 
 Tier Two – OT: 1 Chronicles 26-29, 2 Chronicles 1-4

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU 

School of Jubilee:
youtube.com/schoolofjubilee

Jubilee Company Worship:
http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

When we fail, but faith doesn't. Christ lived rooted and grounded in love, dependent upon grace as He suffered unjustly, repeatedly. We are to live in that same grace. Jesus prayed that Peter’s faith wouldn’t fail, even though he did. The Lord delineates between our faith and our soulish actions. He knows we will fail, yet He prays that our faith will prevail.
 
The Father doesn’t keep us from sin; He provides grace to return over and over while we are being conformed to the image of His Son. Jesus sees in me the parts that seem impossible. He’s not trying to capture us to shame us, but to call us back to Himself, to salvation, to freedom.
 
King David goes from taking a census (counting his army to determine his own strength) which results in the death of many to repenting and receiving the vision for the temple.
 
What’s the biggest lie? That we can do life without total dependence on God. Only God can grant repentance, the ability to hold a new thought. Repentance leads us to the knowledge of the Truth. Truth is Jesus Christ, and what brings us to our senses so we can escape the devil’s snare.
 
Peter would not have become the Peter of Acts without his greatest failure.
 
Scripture Readings:
 Tier One – NT: Luke 19-24, 1 Thessalonians 4-5, 2 Thessalonians 1-3, 1 Timothy 1-6, 2 Timothy 1-4
 Tier Two – OT: 1 Chronicles 17-25

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU 

School of Jubilee:
youtube.com/schoolofjubilee

Jubilee Company Worship:
http://jubileechurch.org/jcwa

Walking with Jesus means He will remove everything we can point to within ourselves to prove we are good. We don’t use Scripture to gain our advantages. We submit to Scripture to be all made one in Jesus. Scripture is how we welcome Jesus Christ into the conversation. Proximity is not what God came for; rather, He came so we would know Him most intimately. 
 
God hides things from us until our hearts are humble and ready to search Him out. God is not looking for compliance but coming back into His likeness…surrender.
The best place to hide is religion.
 
We learn to hear the Word in each other and to recognize Jesus in each other. All of us are being brought to the Cross, to some form of agreement with the truth. We are all in the same process of salvation through sanctification into the Glory, where we will become like Him. We must remember that God is holy, no matter how big an act of service we can give to Him. His holiness must be revered.
 
Scripture Readings:
 Tier One – NT: Luke 13-18, Ephesians 3-6, Philippians 1-4, Colossians 1-4, 1 Thessalonians 1-3 
 Tier Two – OT: 1 Chronicles 9-16, Habakkuk 2-3, Zephaniah 1-3

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU 

School of Jubilee:
youtube.com/schoolofjubilee

Jubilee Company Worship:
http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Faith cannot survive in the environment of judgment. Jesus is working to bring all of us out of slavery into sonship. We often entrench ourselves in our opinions and ways of worship and end up resisting the Lord and His love. Anything that keeps me from knowing Christ is in itself satanic.
 
While Jesus goes after the hardness of heart by letting a “sinful” woman wash His feet during dinner, Paul goes after the hardness of heart in the Corinthian church. Pre-judging of any situation is prejudice. No judgment apart from love will produce the Kingdom of God.
 
God’s hope for each of us is that we come into the inheritance of His Son, Jesus, out of darkness into His glorious light. Come out of anything that’s exalting itself against the knowledge of our God and the work of His Son. Come and live! Our hope is in believing that we can.
 
Scripture Readings:
 Tier One – NT: Luke 6-12, 2 Corinthians 9-13, Galatians 1-6, Ephesians 1-2
 Tier Two – OT: 1 Chronicles 1-8, Song of Solomon 6-8, Habakkuk 1

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give
Steve Dittmar’s Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU 

School of Jubilee:
youtube.com/schoolofjubilee

Jubilee Company Worship:
http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

To be strong in faith and brave, we must be rooted in love. Without love, we can get mission-focused and leave off the heart of His mission in us. God never wastes a single moment of our lives. In everything that happens to us, Jesus Christ has a purpose to be revealed there and then to be sovereign through it. 

With the paralytic, Jesus reveals that it’s much easier to heal someone than to forgive them! Am I judging each moment by my opinion and its impact on me (against me), or am I perceiving what the Lord is actually doing in this moment? God’s authority is unto forgiveness ALWAYS and in every situation.  
  
The function of iniquity is “I will. My way.” I do it daily. But the Song of Solomon reminds us of coming to be loved, and of the maturing of love. He has chosen us to love us for who we are. “Please bring your heart to me and let Me kiss the wound and heal you.”

The faith we are invited into is in Jesus. We come into the faith OF Jesus. 

Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Mark 15-16, Luke 1-5, 1 Corinthians 16, 2 Corinthians 1-8  Tier Two – OT: 2 Kings 17-25, Song of Songs 1-5, Micah 7, Nahum 1-3

Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU
School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubilee
Jubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Everything God does is never out of line with His nature. Adherence to that truth through belief in His Word and by the power of Holy Spirit is what will “Satan-proof” me. And God gave us all of that in the man, Jesus Christ. If I will accept that I have been invited not to principles but to a Man, I will enjoy all the benefits of that relationship. 

When the father with the epileptic son comes for help, Jesus first ministers to the Dad by challenging him to have faith (belief). Faith is in His ability. As the pressure comes, our world gets smaller. Consequently, so does our hope and the expectancy we had when we first encountered Jesus. And we shut down. But Jesus calls us to our part in the equation, “If you can believe, all things are possible.” 

Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Mark 9-14, 1 Corinthians 7-15  Tier Two – OT: 2 Kings 9-16, Ecclesiastes 7-12
 
Jubilee Southern California   
Website: http://jubileechurch.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchca
X: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/

To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/give

Steve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU
School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubilee
Jubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw