The Housetop

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. 

One of the greatest needs we have is acceptance.  We all have experienced the pain of rejection; and if anyone understands the ramifications of rejection, it is Jesus.

Even when the whole world has rejected us, we have the ability to be accepted by God. This divine acceptance is the power of God working inside the life of a person, bringing joy unspeakable that is full of glory. 

It is by grace we are accepted in the Beloved.  Acceptance from God is based on what He has done for us through the blood of Jesus Christ to reconcile us back to Himself.  Many people have the knowledge of this, but their spirit has not yet had the revelation.  When this is revealed, a flood of life, joy, hope, and peace comes.

Seek and hear the voice of God speak to you and confirm in your spirit that He has made you accepted in the Beloved.

To be adopted as a child of God means our earthly life is dead with Christ on the cross. Now it is alive with God in Him.

I am in Him, and He is in me.  Like marriage, the two have become one. A oneness has been established. Everything of mine belongs to God, and everything that God has belongs to me. That’s how covenant works. 

To be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law. But a righteousness through faith. It's not what I have achieved, my religious performance, devotions, or appearance.  It has everything to do with faith in what God has done.

When a seed is sown into good ground, the ground receives the seed, and it will bear fruit.  God commands fruit from those He redeems.  We are to bear fruit unto God worthy of repentance.

Can you imagine the revival that would happen overnight if every believer were bearing fruit 30, 60, or 90-fold?

We must ask ourselves: Do I have a fruitful life, bearing fruit for God?  Is there anything my life is producing with eternal value? Where is the fruit of souls?