Repentance from dead works and faith toward God are foundational doctrines undergirding everything that is. Some of us never get to the bedrock of Christ because we've never established the foundations.

Repentance is a supernatural change of mind as we change our thinking to think more like Christ. Repentance is the message that makes us ready to receive the Lord. When

The gospel begins with the message of repentance. It is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance., and the first move of grace in our life is God drawing us to change.

It was once the common understanding that once a person was discipled, they would be able to take what they had received and give it to another. This is how the church functioned. Faithful men would teach faithful men.

But today there is a difficulty bringing people to maturity. Many are in perpetual spiritual infancy and never grow up or bear fruit. Those who have been in the Lord for years seem to never advance in their spiritual growth. 

If we have received, then why can't we give? Or the real question might be why won't we give? We need to be a good steward to what God reveals. 

In this series, we will make sure our foundation is proper as we learn the principles of the doctrines of Christ.  It's time to dig deep.

We have to awaken to the idea that we are in a spiritual war. We are not wrestling against flesh and blood.  We are fighting demonic entities that have usurped godly creations, and we cannot fight in the spiritual arena with carnal means.

It's time to open our eyes to the spiritual forces around us. We are in a spiritual conquest and there’s a battle raging for our souls.  It’s time to get full of the Holy Ghost and fight like you're going to win. 

We are victors when we are fully dressed in the whole armor of God.

The devil is a real adversary and foe who is after your soul.  He's doing everything to mess you up, thwart your efforts, ruin your witness, and make you blaspheme. Our human strength is no match for the demonic.  This is a reality of the Christian walk.

When we face the enemy, we are to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Our strength will fail but God will never fail.

As a Christian, you will experience spiritual warfare. God is readying and preparing us, but we have some duty in putting on His armor. We must make sure we do our diligence to sink into the armor of God so that we have the divine protection we need for battle.

God is greater than any adversary that we will ever meet. In Christ, we are well able to stand. We need to let our inner man agree with that, rise up, and stand in victory.

Christ has called us to servanthood. We should serve others like we are serving the Lord. Our jobs can be seen as the mission field as we aim to reflect His glory well wherever we go. Even in the workplace, we can make a difference and be witness and a real testimony for Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ was known as a servant. He served everyone He came in contact with. The Spirit of God will not rest on our pride and spirit of independence. It is vital we keep a right spirit.

When we become servants of the Lord, we must walk in a certain humility, knowing who and what we are. We are people under mercy. We were granted mercy and given a new opportunity. We need to treat others the same way.

As a Christian worker, we must ask ourselves whether we work with sincerity of heart or grumble and complain. It is the will of God we serve with gladness.

Christians should make peace and be the ones who up the morale and the atmosphere of the work environment with our good attitude. God has called us to a good work, and the first part of that good work is to shine His character.

The family is under unprecedented attack.  We must look at the warfare going on in the family, and in particular in regard to our children. We must train our children and help them navigate through these perilous times that we live in right now.  It takes hard work. 

It’s time for Christians to really take to heart the stewardship God has given us in our children. We have responsibilities and duties to our children as their parents to raise them, instill Christian value, and do everything we know how to bring our children to Christ. 

We've lost all Christian conviction about covenant because blood covenant is not appropriately taught from the pulpit. We need to understand, in the Christian home, that we are first submitted to Jesus Christ through a blood covenant. Then also, through a blood covenant, we are connected to our spouse. 

Both of these relationships are nurtured through communication. When we keep our hearts soft before the Lord, we can keep our relationships intact. Marriage vows should not be taken flippantly. 

Why doesn't our Christianity translate into good relationships? If there's any place the love of Christ should show up it's in our home. 

God wants to bring peace into our home through divine order once we are first mutually submitted to Jesus Christ.  When we have a true spiritual covenant with God, we have forsaken all others.  We belong to Christ - us in Him and Him in us.  This is the unity of faith, and we should see the same devotion in the covenant of marriage.  

Come to Christ, come through the cross, die to who you were, get a new life, be born again, and then the Spirit of Christ will reside in your heart and the Spirit of grace will lift you up in a higher law than sin and death.  It’s called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.  

We are under a higher law.  He didn’t lower it.  He raised it above human reach.  He put it out of the capacity of human ability and in divine ability.  The Spirit of grace is there to empower us to live out what Christ wants us to do. 

Grace is not a crutch to live subpar to where Christ calls us to be.

We are in a new covenant made in the blood of Jesus Christ.  We are the temple of the living God and the Spirit of God moves in us.  There’s a light shining in us and it’s the character that comes from the new birth as we become partakers of divine nature.  We become the light of the world. 

Some of you need to hear this, awake, and rise from the dead and God will give you light.

The book of Ephesians is filled with the word walk.  Our walk is our manner of life. It is the way we live.   

We are to walk worthy of the calling. There should be a lifestyle change that aligns to what God has called us to. It is not that we walk in a rigidity of commandment or a lifestyle cleanup, but we are to walk in the love of God. 

The gospel should affect the way we live our lives. This is the new birth as God the Creator makes us new.  The divine power of God comes into us; and as the old man comes off, the new man comes in.

In the salvation of God, He has foreordained that we would be recreated in Christ Jesus for a good work.  The good work is for us to walk in this physical body in this present age in a way that manifests the Spirit of Christ.  It's the greatest work that can be done.  We are to walk in the full transfiguration of Christ Jesus and affect everyone around because of the power of God that is upon us.

Every one of us in Christ has been given a measure of Christ’s gifts. Jesus Christ Himself gifted men to be gifts to men.  These ministry gifts are to equip the ministry; however, they are the biggest things tradition stole from everyone. 

This demonic thief of tradition steals the priesthood of every believer.  It is a grief that we have taken these gifts and squeezed them down to one thing: Pastor.  It is a detriment to the gospel that all the church be in the hands of pastors. 

The paradigm is shifting back to an apostolic model with relational ministry led by the Holy Ghost. We need a fresh wave of powerful apostles and prophets who will set the foundations properly of Spirit and truth.  Spirit and truth must come together in the very foundation of Jesus Christ in these New Testament churches.   

The measure God wants us to walk in is fullness.  It is the absolute goal and aim in the Christian walk to be filled with Christ.  Let’s be a vessel who says, “Empty me out so I can be filled with You.”  We are to ask, seek, knock, and persistently pursue a fuller life with the Holy Ghost in us.