There’s been a huge paradigm shift where God no longer dwells in temples made by men. He now dwells in men.

He's building Himself a house, and it’s those He has brought into the new birth and are being intertwined relationally in love. When we come together in that assembled love by the Spirit of God, we become a dwelling place for God. It is there God promises to manifest His presence.

God wants to do a mighty work in this new paradigm. He wants you to come to the mountain alone with Him where He can transfigure you. You are invited to meet with God until He strengthens you with might in your inner man according to the working of His power and He fills you with His glory.

God wants to come into you to save, heal, deliver, and transform you so Christ can live in you. It's all done through faith in His word. Faith pulls this out of heaven into your heart.

Instead of trying to find God in a temple, let Him find you in His temple and change you from the inside out.  Hear Him and become the tabernacle of God, a holy sanctuary, where He is pleased to dwell in you.

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All throughout the history of the church, every revival has resulted from the Holy Spirit blasting through existing orthodoxy and disrupting the standards and norms that were in control.

We are in this sort of paradigm shift now. 

The Holy Spirit is not looking to occupy a physical building.  He is wanting to live in the hearts of men.  God wants to live inside redeemed vessels.  Immanuel in the heart of every soul.  That’s the fullness of the gospel. 

Currently there‘s a lack of experiential Christianity.  We need to encounter the presence of God in a powerful way where we don’t remain the same.  We are the tabernacle of God only when He transfigures us through a divine encounter with Him.  Where faith comes alive, the Word begins to change you, and your mind is renewed. It’s called repentance. 

We must take care to build according to the New Testament pattern.  The building blocks of the New Testament are ransomed vessels who have received Christ in such a divine encounter they are transformed, and the Word of God continues to transfigure them throughout their life, so they are conformed to the image of Christ in all of His fullness.  And then we are joined together relationally, one to another, and build a community of faith and friendship that the world looks at and knows we are His disciples.

The building of God is not an organization of brick and mortar. It is a living organism, filled with people who are filled with God’s praises, with Jesus Christ as the Chief Cornerstone. However, the builders have rejected God’s design and the Chief Cornerstone.

God wanted the New Testament church to be structured relationally, not bureaucratically. Instead of the relational church God intended, many worship in an old paradigm, trying to mimic the Old Testament temple. We must start anew in the true new paradigm, where we are the temple of God.

We are to build carefully according to the pattern that Jesus gave His disciples. God wants to live in the hearts and minds of men, not in physical buildings. We are meant to worship in a relational church, where we are built together in relationships to be a habitation for be Holy Spirit.

There are so many American believers who have gotten disenchanted and fallen out of church. There’s another way. You can have church right there in your homes in the relational structure God intended. If you are sitting out of church, it’s time to get the vision.

Grace is the divine influence upon the heart reflected in the life. It is powerful when God’s grace comes, and there’s a manifestion of it in the life.  Many argue that it is either grace or works, but it is actually grace and works.  We are not saved by good works, but we are kept by them.

Don’t pervert grace by saying you can live however you want to now and still be saved.  It’s a false doctrine.  We are predestined to reflect God’s glory on earth and do a good work.  He is raising up a people who are zealous about good works and want to do the things that glorify Him. 

The commandments have not been done away with.  If God’s grace doesn’t empower you to keep His commandments, then you are under a false grace.  If you are trying to live in lawless deeds, calling your continued sin liberty and grace, then you are frustrating the true grace of God.    

Christ didn’t die so we would keep sinning; He died so we could die with Him.  But instead of being dead to sin, we sit in church dead in our sins.  

There are many religious seekers of Christ who are still dying in their sins.  We have all but eradicated the holiness of God, twisting His glory and truth. Misrepresenting God, we have exalted a humanistic view of His love and seared our conscience towards sin.

We must get our blinders off and look soberly at our sin before a holy God.

There are so many people who have had real encounters with God who have never known the fullness of Jesus Christ in their life.  God wants to change you with His fullness inside of you.  We are His Church, His Body, the fullness of Him who fills all things.  Jesus Christ was filled with grace and truth, and He wants you as full as He is. 

We need the fullness today.  Why aren’t we pressing in to see the Church filled with the Holy Spirit? A spirit of slumber has rested on the churches. The gospel is way bigger than what we have made it today.  It is a powerful gospel that wants to save you: spirit, soul, and body. 

God wants to do a work in you and fill you with the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead; and when God fills you with Himself, you cannot be the same. 

There is an abundance of God’s Spirit that He wants to fill you with.  Some don’t even know to ask for His fullness or to pursue more of the Holy Ghost.  We have left so much on the table.

When the eyes of the understanding become enlightened, it means we are able to look at things with our spiritual eyes wide opened.  As the knowledge of God revolves in the head, it drops down into the spirit and becomes understanding. The heart sees something that is way deeper than the mind is able to.

In Ephesians, Paul prays for the spirit of understanding in three areas:  The hope of His calling, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us who believe. 

Join us as Teryl Hebert explores the powerful truths in each area. 

Paul prayed for a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ Jesus.  The spirit of wisdom implies a continual unfolding of abiding, residing, and living wisdom.  This is something we are missing in the church today. 

We have overemphasized the knowledge of the cross without connecting with the brokenness that comes from the cross.  We have heads full of cognitive transfer, but this knowledge has not dropped into the spirit or changed the hearts of men.

We are transferring cognitive knowledge instead of enlarging on revelation.  Because of this, there’s no freedom, no healing, no deliverance, and no signs of the new birth.

Cognitive transfer does not stick.  What we need today are minds enlightened and transfigured from divine encounters.  We need the wisdom of God dwelling in the hearts and minds of men through revelation.

In this last age, there’s a revealing of the mystery that has been hidden throughout all the ages.  The mystery is that Jews and Gentiles would worship Jesus at the same alter of the cross.  God is gathering everything together into one through Christ Jesus and reconciling the world to Himself by the blood of Jesus Christ and making peace as the two become one, with no division in the heart or head. 

We all come in through the blood of the cross and worship God in the Kingdom come. Regardless of your background, all the nations can come into the Kingdom by the blood of Jesus Christ.  There is no other access.  Everything is coming under subjection of the Lordship of Jesus Christ for the purpose of eternal judgment.

It’s the duty of the Church in this generation to preach this gospel in such a way that principalities and powers in the heavenly places, some of the most powerful strongholds in the universe, would have to hear and quake that Jesus is the Son of God and God said, “Sit right here at My right hand until I make My enemies Your footstool.” We are now ministers of this reconciliation and commissioned to preach this gospel.

Redemption means to liberate someone and set them free at a purchase price.   We were captive and bound to demonic forces that held us to sin. But Christ paid the ransom fully; and through His blood, we have redemption. 

To understand what it cost God to forgive you, we must first understand the righteous requirements of the law and power of the blood. 

There’s redemption through the blood of Christ according to the riches of God’s grace. But to get this grace, you must go through the blood.  The redemption in His blood is what gives us the legal right to have our sins forgiven.