The Tongue and the Word V - Morris Cerullo

FACE SATAN,

KNOWING THAT THE

LIVING WORD IS IN YOU.

The same power is in you that spoke the sun,moon and stars into

existence. The same prover is in you that made the dry land, forests,

mountains, rivers, and oceans come into being. The same power is in

you that created all of the animals, birds,fish and all other forms of

life. The same power is in you that created man from the dust of the

earth and breathed life into him. This power is in you.

The Word, which was with God in the beginning, which was and is God, and which created all things, lives within you. The Logos , the living Word, became flesh. Jesus humbled Himself, stripped Himself of His former glory, came to earth, took upon Himself the form of human flesh, and lived among the people whom He created. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not (John 1:10).

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14). God sent His Son—the living Word—to earth for a purpose.

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth.- it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (Isaiah 55:11).

God's purpose for sending Jesus to earth was to destroy the works of the devil. His objective was to reveal His glory—all that He has and is—through the Logos. God spoke through Isaiah: And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it (Isaiah 40:5). 

The majority of Christians today are not walking in the revelation,  that the very life of the       Almighty Son of God is living in them. They say that they believe that Jesus is in them, but their actions prove otherwise.   

God wanted mankind to know Him and love Him. He wanted to reveal to people His plan for salvation and deliverance from Satan's bondage. He wanted them to be set free from sickness and disease. He wanted them to be restored to fellowship with Him and to receive eternal life. The glory of God was revealed through Jesus. He was the express image of God.
The life of God, the Father, flowed through Him. It healed the sick, forgave sins, cast out demons, and brought a visible manifestation of God to the world. God's purpose for sending the living Word to the earth was to set us free from sin, save our souls from eternal damnation, and bring us into a new position, whereby we would possess the same power and glory that Christ possessed, be changed into Christ's image, and work the same works that Christ worked.
God's purpose for sending the living Word was to bring many sons into glory. (See Hebrews 2:9-10.)
In Chapter One, we talked about how Jesus confronted Satan and destroyed his strongholds by speaking the Word. We talked about how the lame walked, the blind saw, the deaf heard, and the dead were raised. God has planned for you to do the same works as these.
In Chapter Two, you learned about the power that is in the Word of God. Before you can come into an experience of being able to speak the Word with power, you must live and walk in the revelation that the living Word is in you.

JESUS FACED SATAN, KNOWING
THAT THE FATHER DWELT WITHIN HIM.
In a previous lesson, you learned that one of Jesus' strategies was that He faced Satan from a position of knowing that He was the Son of God. Jesus lived with the knowledge that the Father dwelt in
Him. He said: I and my Father are one (John 10:30) and ... the Father is in me, and I in him (John 10:38).
Jesus knew that the works that He did were the result of the Father dwelling in Him. He knew that the Father was not far removed from Him, but that He was living in Him and working I---- Nvorks through Him.

The majority of Christians today are not walking in the revelation,  that the very life of the Almighty Son of God is living in them. They say that they believe that Jesus is in them, but their actions prove otherwise. They are not manifesting the same power and doing the same works that Jesus did while He was on earth. They are not speaking the Word with authority: They are not manifesting His love, peace, joy, and patience.

In your own life, what happens the moment that you are attacked by the enemy? What do you do when you are suddenly faced with problems that seem to crush in on you and weigh you down, until there doesn't seem to be any possible way out? How do you react? Do you panic, worry, complain, or feel sorry for yourself? Do you become depressed and discouraged? Does it seem to you that God is far removed from you and your circumstances?

When Satan attacks, do you face him, knowing that the living Word is in you and that you are invincible? Do you face him with the confidence that no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper and that regardless of the trial you may be going through, you will not be defeated?

THE LIVING WORD BECAME FLESH.

Nearly two thousand years ago, the Holy Spirit came upon a virgin, named Mary, and implanted within her womb the incorruptible seed of Jesus Christ. God sent an angel with the Rhema, a spoken Word from God, to Mary:

And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary.- for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thewomb and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest. and the Lorrd God shall give unto him the throne of his father David--And he shall reign over the house of Jacob ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Luke 1:30-33

The words that the angel spoke to Mary were far beyond her comprehension. Through this angel, God told her that she was going to conceive and give birth to the promised Messiah, the Son of God. Mary was confused and afraid. She asked the angel how this could come to pass because she was a virgin, and it is impossible for a virgin to conceive. The angel told her that it would be born of the Holy Ghost. He told her: For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfilment

(Luke 1:37, AMP).

The angel brought Mary a Word from God. With that spoken Word there also came the faith to fulfill it. It did not depend upon any faith that Mary could somehow develop. It did not depend upon faith that Mary could somehow demonstrate. The faith and power to bring the Word to pass were already contained in the the spoken Word of God.

God was not depending upon whether or not Mary was able to demonstrate the faith for this miracle. God's Word was not vulnerable, depending on Mary to fulfill itself. God was looking for a willing and yielded vessel.

Mary did not wonder if she had enough faith to believe the promise. She simply yielded herself to God and said to the angel: ... Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word ... (Luke 1:38). Mary received the Word, the promise from God, and the incorruptible seed of Jesus Christ was implanted in her womb.

The seed grew within her until the appointed time for her to give birth. Jesus became flesh. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of tbe only begotten of Father,) .full o 'grace and truth ( John 1:14).

THE INCORRUPTIBLE SEED, JESUS CHRIST,
HAS BEEN CONCEIVED WITHIN YOU.

Jesus, the Son of God, was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb. The very life of Jesus Christ was conceived in you the moment you confessed your sins and surrendered your life to

Grod.1he incorruptible seed, at that moment, was implanted within your spirit.

Say out loud: The living Word is alive in me!

What was God's purpose for sending Jesus, the living Word, to this earth? God sent Jesus to destroy the works of the devil, to manifest His glory to the world, and to bring many sons and daughters into glory.

God has planned and purposed to bring many sons into glory, to bring you into a relationship of a true child of His, whereby the glory of Christ, Who dwells within you, will be reflected in an outward expression to the world.

God has sent the living Word to dwell within you so that you will be able to take authority over the works of the devil and manifest Christ's glory (all that He has and is) to the world. When you were born again, your selfish, carnal nature
 died, and a new life was birthed within you. Your old nature was not reborn. The incorruptible seed of Jesus Christ was born within you.

Jesus grew and developed within Mary's body, and God intends for Jesus, the living Word, to grow and develop within you until He is fully formed within you. Paul told the believers in the Galatian church that he was in travail, as a woman giving birth, for them until Christ was completely and permanently formed within them.Little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you ... (Galatians 4:19).

God has planned for you to be changed by being conformed to the image of His Son. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8:29).

God has planned and purposed to bring many sons into glory, to bring you into a relationship of a true child of His, whereby the glory of Christ, Who dwells within you, will be reflected in an outward expression to the world.

The living Word, Jesus Christ, was conceived in Mary's womb, became flesh, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father. The living Word has been made alive within you. When His life grows and develops, and He is fully formed within you, then the world will see His glory (all that He has and is) manifested through you.

When people look at you, they are going to be able to see Jesus. They will be able to see His glory radiating through you. 'They will see you doing the same works that He did while He was upon the earth. They will be able to see you taking authority over all the power of the enemy.

Before this great truth can become a reality in your life, you must come to the point in your experience that you can say, like Paul: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me ... (Galatians 2:20). You must come to the realization that you are dead, and Jesus is living His life through you.

It is Jesus, the living Word within you, Who will minister healing and deliverance through you to those around you.
It is Jesus, the living Word within you, Who will destroy Satan's strongholds through you.
It is Jesus, the living Word within you, Who will speak through you.

Our body is only a vessel, an earthly habitation where Christ dwells. The Word (the living Word) has become flesh and is dwelling within us. But we have this treasure e in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us (II Corinthians 4:7). Christ, the living Word, is in us. He is ... the hope ofglory: (Colossians 1:27). God sent Him to dwell within us so that we will manifest His glory to the world.

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth.- it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (Isaiah 55:11).

THE LIVING WORD IS ALIVE WITHIN YOU.

Because the living Word is alive within you, you can face every trial, every problem, and every situation without fear, worry, or anxiety. You can face Satan with the full assurance of victory, as Jesus did when He was on earth.

Jesus was able to face every obstacle, crisis, and temptation without fear, in full command of each situation. He knew that He was the Son of God, that God was within Him, and that God would

make Him victorious over Satan.Jesus' strength came from knowing, that he  was one with His Father that the Father was in Him, and that He was in the Father.

.Jesus lived His life on earth by the Father, Who had sent Him. He said: And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me d1one;jor I do always those things that please him ( John 8:29).

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? What I am telling you I do not say on My own authority and of My own accord; but the Father Who lives continually in Me does the (His) works (His own miracles, deeds of power).

John 14:10, AMP
Our body is only a vessel, an earthly habitation where Christ dwells. The Word (the living Word) has become flesh and is dwelling within us. But we have this treasure  in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us (II Corinthians 4:7). Christ, the living Word, is in us. He is ... the hope of glory: (Colossians 1:27). God sent Him to dwell within us so that we will manifest His glory to the world.

Do you see what a tremendous position of strength this was for Jesus? Knowing that the Father lived continually in Him and performed His miracles through Him, He did not hesitate to move into action. When He recognized the power of the enemy, He immediately responded.

When Jesus faced the legions of demons who were possessing the body, mind, and spirit of the man of Gadara, He was able to speak the Word and command them to go, knowing that Almighty God was in Him and was doing the work through Him.

Jesus faced the power of death, knowing that Almighty God was in Him. It was He Who had spoken the world into existence, and He would do the work and raise Him from the dead. Do you see what a tremendous position of strength that this is for you, too? Your strength to confront Satan and take authority over him comes from knowing that you are one with Christ, that He lives within,you, and that He is working His works through you.

YOU WILL SEE.
YOU WILL LIVE.
YOU WILL KNOW!

Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He prepared His disciples to face the power of the enemy. He had revealed God's will to them. He had spoken the words that the Father had instructed  Him to speak.

He had given them power and authority over Satan and had sent them out two by two to heal the sick, cast out devils, and raise the dead. (See Mark 3:14-15 and 6:7.)

Now that Ile was going back to the Father, He was preparing them to be able to face the onslaught of the enemy. Jesus said: Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you (John 14:19 -20).
Do you see what a tremendous position of strength this was for Jesus? Knowing that the Father lived continually in Him and performed His miracles through Him

Jesus made three promises in these verses. He said they would see Him, they would live, and they would know that He was in the Father, that they were in Him, and that He was in them. Circle the words at that day in the above scripture. What day was He referring to? Was He referring to the time of the Rapture, when they would be translated into heaven? No!

In these verses, Jesus was talking about at that day after His resurrection; at that day, after He had defeated Satan; at that day, after He had triumphed over death; at that day, after He had stripped Satan of his power; and at that day, when He had ascended into heaven. They would see Him. They would live. They would know that He was in them.

GOD HAS PLANNED FOR YOU TO
ENTER A SPIRITUAL UNION WITH HIM.

These promises belong to you. Jesus has promised you that you will see Him. You will live in and through Him. You will know. You will walk in these revelations. How is it possible to see Jesus now?

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will lnan li,St myself him.

John 14:21

Jesus has promised to reveal Himself clearly to those who know His words and keep them. He is going to reveal Himself to those who hear His Word and who walk in obedience to His Word. He is going to manifest Himself to those who practice what , they

preach. ... If a man love me, be will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him ( John 14:23).

Because God has made YOU. one of His children, you are now ;able to live your life through Christ, who dwells in you. Because the Father dwells in Christ, He also dwells in you! For in him dwelleth all the fulness of tbe Godhead bodily.and.yee, are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power , (Colossians 2:9-10).

It is this spiritual union—God, the Father, dwelling in Christ, and Christ, the living Word, dwe1ling in you—that enables you to live in the express image of Christ on this earth through this spiritual union with Him, you are a partaker of His divine nature. In Christ dwells all of the fullness of the Godhcad.Therefore, since Christ dwells in you, the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—dwells in you.

Through this spiritual union, Christ's life will be able to grow within you until all that the world will see when they look at you is Jesus. In Jesus' great, intercessory prayer for the Church, He revealed a special ingredient that He gave to us to make this spiritual union possible.

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: (John 17:22). The glory that Jesus had from the beginning has been given to us, so that we may be one with the Godhead and one with each other.

Michael Kaminski Facebook
16 December at 06:17 ·
It has come to my attention that many think
I am crazy, living in a fantasy where I think Jesus is not only alive and risen, but has taken up residence inside me.
Let me correct this rumor.
I do not think Jesus is risen and alive and taken up residence in me where the two of us have become one, I know it.
How can I make so bold a statement? the same way you know you're hungry. Hurt... In love.
It's not only part of you, it's you.
We're one with .God.
That's right, we've been made one with God through the cross of Jesus
Christ.
Check out John 16-17, Galations 2:20, col2, Romans 6 for a start.

THROUGH THE LIVING WORD,YOU ARE GOING
TO MANIFEST GOD'S GLORY TO THE WORLD!

There is a new move of the Holy Spirit that is coming to the Church. You are going to manifest Christ's glory to the world around you. Right now, you may not be able to see how you will be able to do the same works that Jesus did. You may not understand how it is going to be possible for you to be changed into the image of Jesus Christ.

Once you receive this revelation into your spirit and begin to walk in it, you will begin to manifest Christ's glory to the world around you. Right now, you may not be able to see how you will be able to do the same works that Jesus did while He was upon this earth. You may not understand how it will be possible for you to be changed into  the image of Jesus Christ. You may not feel that you have enough faith to speak the Word and see blind eyes open and the disabled walking again.

When the angel spoke the Rhema word to Mary, she could not imagine how his words could possibly come to pass. You may feel like this. God's Word is not vulnerable. He is not depending upon whether you can demonstrate the faith to bring His Word to pass. For with God nothing shall be impossible (Luke 1:37).
We are not strategizing for one isolated victory. We are not playing games. We are strategizing to be a part of the manifestation of God to the world for the end times.

God has placed the living Word within you! The fullness of the Godhead is in you! Jesus has already given you His glory! Through your spiritual union with Him, you will be able to walk as Jesus walked because you will know that God is in Christ, that Christ is in you, and that you are in God. You will face Satan, knowing that you cannot be defeated because Christ, the living Word, is in you.

Before you put this lesson down, find a place to be alone with God. Ask Him to give you a full revelation of the powerful Life that is living within you. Ask Him to seal these truths in your Spirit.

Obviously, Satan does not want you to walk in this revelation. He knows that when the veil is lifted, and the Church of the living God begins to see that there is a Life Force within them that is invincible, he will be doomed. When the power of God is manifested through us, he will have no place to hide.

We are not strategizing for one isolated victory. We are not playing games. We are strategizing to be a part of the manifestation of God to the world for the end times. The world will know that God is Who He claims to be. This is the revelation that God wants you to have in this hour. You must have it before you will be able to speak the Word with the same power and authority of Jesus.

Say it one more time: I am a part of God's end-time plan. God has not planned any defeats for me. This is my year for new beginnings.

This week, face Satan, (knowing that the living Word is in you and that ... greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4).

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Transformation not Condemnation Part 4

This renewing of the mind is a process, not an instant change. No matter how carnal you think you are, if you will keep hungering after God, you will be renewed day by day. Everything in life takes time. First you have a seed, then a small blade, and eventually a full ear of corn. We are the seed of God. His seed is growing in the midst of our carnality, and eventually that seed of His life will grow and consume everything in us that is not of God. This is a work of grace, not a matter of self-effort or natural willing. "It is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy" (Romans 9:16). As mentioned earlier, we have inherited habit patterns from our forefathers. The sins of the forefathers are visited upon the children for generations, and it's not a spiritual thing, it's a natural thing. Those things have to be transformed. There are habit patterns which have developed, sometimes for generations, that you inherit. That's why I was full of lust; I inherited it just like a disease. And you know, we cannot receive anything from God except through the eyes of faith. If you are under condemnation and guilt, it's impossible for you to receive from God, because you feel that you deserve what you have. And again, nominal Christianity will teach you, "You deserve what you have -- look at what you are doing! You call yourself a Christian, and you are out there drinking and smoking and chasing women and doing all of the things you shouldn’t ." But you need transformation, not condemnation. One of the first things that will help you is to have the revelation that God and man are one. And I want to explain to you just a little bit about what I mean when I say this, because I have been getting letters recently from people (and these people are not critical; they are people who love me and haven't known me very long, but who have come to love the ministry that I have). They tell me things like this: "You should never say God and man are one, because the New Age people and the New Age movement, and this one-world religious thing that is going on out there are saying some of the same things that you are saying. So therefore, if you use this terminology, you have to be careful, because it's New Age." But if New Age people are proclaiming the truth, if a Buddhist monk is speaking some truth, then do I not speak that truth because somebody will think that I am a monk, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist, or a New Ager? I have to speak it, because it is true! God and man are one. This is all through the Scripture, but let’s look at just a few verses (these are all very familiar verses, but again, we have not had revelation on just basic, Scriptural, practical things). In John 15:5, Jesus said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." Picture that in your mind. Look at a vine that has branches. Are the branches and the vine two separate entities? I don't think so; they are one. Now that does not make the branch the vine, but it is a part of it, and the same life flows through both the vine and the branches. That is why I say over and over again that I believe with all my heart that I and my Father are one. But I am not my Father. I'm not God! However, I inherited God traits from my Father, just as I inherited natural traits from my natural father, and I am a human because I have a human life. If indeed Jesus lives in me -- and as the Apostle Peter and others have told us in the New Testament, the Divine life and nature of God are in me -- then how could I not be one with God?

But if New Age people are proclaiming the truth, if a Buddhist monk is speaking some truth, then do I not speak that truth because somebody will think that I am a monk, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist, or a New Ager? I have to speak it, because it is true! God and man are one.

The problem is that we identify with the human side, because we are in that fallen, darkened state, having our eyes darkened, being alienated from the life of God that is in us. That is the only problem. Jesus said we must be born again, because there is a natural birth and there is a spiritual birth. And as the natural birth is earthy, the tendency of that natural birth is to always be dragging you downward back into the earth. But he that is born of the Spirit is spirit, which means that that part of you which is regenerated and born again is the spirit in you, and the spirit is always ascending and rising above. This is where the conflict comes in! The natural human life is always drawing down toward the earth, trying to pull you down, but your spirit always wants to ascend. Another thing we haven't understood is that when you are born again you are as a little baby. I don't care if you are a hundred years old when you are born again, it is a spiritual birth just like a natural birth. But we take spiritual babies and we try to make them act like Father God! And they are just babies. Babies need only a few things: They need to be fed and properly taken care of. You cannot teach a baby about tithing, but you can feed him, and if you feed him properly, if you nourish your children properly, they may never understand the principle of tithing, but they will be givers -- oh they will be givers! "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are" (John 17:11). How are Jesus and the Father one? The Apostle Paul tells us that the fullness of God, the fullness of everything that God is, dwelt in bodily form in the Man Jesus. Then Jesus has the audacity to pray, "Father, just as we are one, they are one." You see, if you have this revelation, your problems are over, but the biggest tool of the enemy today in Christian circles is fear; because, brethren, in the last days there are seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. If you are in that church system today and you are entrenched in that system, you have already been seduced -- terribly seduced -- and you don't even know it. The deception and seducing came in even before the Apostles died. "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee [Note that it is the same way!] that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me" Now we can't believe these words, because we look with our eyes at what's out there in the system of Christianity. There is no oneness! You may say, "Brother, I'm not in darkness," but are you a Baptist, and are you entrenched in the Baptist tradition? Are you a Lutheran, entrenched in the Lutheran tradition? Are you a Pentecostal, entrenched in that religious tradition? Then you are in darkness!

-the biggest tool of the enemy today in Christian circles is fear; because, brethren, in the last days there are seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. If you are in that church system today and you are entrenched in that system, you have already been seduced -- terribly seduced -- and you don't even know it.

What is being produced in the religious system is for the most part a sham. There is a teaching in the system that sounds so humble. I was taught as a young Christian, "Brother, be careful, be very careful. Don't you ever touch the glory of the Lord. Don't you touch that." And one day I read, "The glory which you gave Me, I have given to them, that they may be one" (John 17:22). What is the glory? Most people don't know what it is. The glory of God is the expression of God. Wherever God is expressed, there is His glory. He said, "I have given to them My glory," and the same Spirit that was in the Lord Jesus is now in you and me! But because of the blindness over our spiritual eyes we don't know it. Oh, we are taught it, but we don't know it. Our preachers wouldn't even want us really to understand it, because if we did, most of them would be out of a job! Do you know what my job is as a minister? If I am a leader, my main function should be to teach you and raise you up in your awareness and abilities of God so that you no longer need my services, and I can go do it elsewhere. Where are the anointed men and women of God who are able to minister not by the letter but by the Spirit of the Living God, to write upon your heart and cause you to rise up and minister to one another? Most of God’s people have never had a proper vision of the Church. All we have seen is Mystery, Babylon the great, the Mother of harlots! You may say, "But Brother, there are precious, precious saints out there!" Yes, there are, and it says in Revelation 17 that Mystery, Babylon, that Mother of harlots, is decked with gold and silver and precious stones, which simply means that those are the characteristics of God. Gold is the Divine life and nature; silver is the redemption; precious stones means the transforming power of God. Yes, there are precious saints out there, but they have never had anyone to bring them out of the darkness and bring them into full liberty and liberation in the power of the Spirit. We haven't had many men in this age and generation to raise up the saints of God to minister to one another. A word of the Lord ministered by the Spirit will enter into your heart, and if you are hungry for God, it will nourish you and build you up.

If I am a leader, my main function should be to teach you and raise you up in your awareness and abilities of God so that you no longer need my services, and I can go do it elsewhere.

If, on the other hand, all you are receiving is head knowledge, you will think you are progressing, but your life will not change. Paul said to the Corinthians, "Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart" (2 Corin. 3:3). When we ministered to the Church in Fall Creek Oregon, I used to tell people, "I don't care what your problem is; please come and be a part of us. If you will stay and let us minister to you your life will change. And no matter how long it takes, I will never condemn you. I will never come to you and say you cannot be a prostitute or gay. I will minister to you; I will pray for you; I will cry with you, and you will be delivered and you will be transformed by the Spirit of the Living God!" "Oh foolish Christians, who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth crucified among you" (Galatians 3:1). Paul is saying, "Don't you realize that Jesus Christ has been set forth crucified among you? Don't you realize that there is absolutely nothing that you need to do?" Now someone may say, "Well, Brother, I preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified." My reply would be, "Yes, but along with that you bring all your rules and regulations, and your shoulds and your shouldn'ts. Jesus Christ crucified is the end of the message! There is not one thing that you can add to that to make it any better; that's the end of the message." Jesus Christ crucified, buried and resurrected, that is the Gospel, and that is what will change you and bring you life. "This only would I learn of you: did you receive the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?" (Galatians 3:2-3). Have you suffered so many things? Have you suffered for so long in this bondage? Has it all been in vain? "He that ministers to you the spirit and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith?" (Galatians 3:4). Listen. If I had to minister to you because of meeting the standard of the law, I wouldn't have a chance! If the qualification to minister is to be one who is fully transformed and in the likeness of God, I fail miserably. That is not it. It is because I have seen something of God, and because I have seen something of God, I have had that contact with the Spirit of the Living God that has energized me and brought some transformation in my life. That's what qualifies me to minister! It's not the result of going to a Bible school. William Law said many years ago that Christianity runs the Bible schools, thinking that they can put off Adam and put on Christ. That's not what happens in a Bible school.

Now someone may say, "Well, Brother, I preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified." My reply would be, "Yes, but along with that you bring all your rules and regulations, and your shoulds and your shouldn'ts. Jesus Christ crucified is the end of the message!

You go into a Bible school full of the Spirit of God, and may come out systematized. You'll be taught how to teach people to do everything but contact God, because most teachers don't know how to do that themselves. You will know how to do everything just as you should do it, but you won't know how to contact God in reality and in spirit

To be continued