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Hebrews 11- living by faith, does ANYTHING makes SENSE??

Posted by Grace Revolution on January 29, 2010

Please refer to Hebrews 11.

You know how sometimes, when the Holy Spirit inspires you, speaks to you or leads you to do something that doesnt’ make sense??
I was reading Hebrews 11 this morning, and was suprise to find that ‘living by faith’ is the very opposite of ‘living by common sense/judgement’.
If we are listening to the Holy Spirit, prompted by Him and resting in His guiding, then our lives ‘won’t make sense’.

V6. “and without faith it is Impossible to please Him, for whoever draw near to God must believe that He Exists and that He Rewards those who seek Him.”

Just some examples
(v.7) what makes sense about Noah building an ark to save his family from a huge flood?? no one has ever seen any rain before in the history of mankind, no one has ever built a boat before and no one has ever seen a flood. God tells him to build an ark because the world is going to be drown- Noah had to trust in God Who saw the bigger picture and live by faith.

(V.8-11) What made sense about Abram going to a place he’s never been to before?? Abram was an unbeliever, worshipping false gods, then all of a sudden God Almighty appears to him for the First Time and speaks to him to leave his family and goto a place where he doesn’t know where he is going?? i dont’ even know You O God, and you just suddenly appear to me, not to my family, but only me, and tell me get going to somewhere you will show me?? (and these guys didnt’ have GPS, google maps, cell phones) and God tells him “I will bless you and you will be a blessing to all nations through your offspriing”. Sarah was pretty old, what makes sense about that? but God is able to do exceeding more abundantly than all we ask or imagine

(V.17-19) What made sense about sacrificing Abraham’s only son Isaac whom God promised to through Isaac your offspring will outnumber the number of sands on the seashore??? God told Abraham in Genesis 22 to sacrifice your only son Isaac!! but God didint give Abraham, Isaac the promised son, how can you kill him now?? God tests Abraham to bring about a prophetic picture of New Testament of Jesus, the Only Son of God being sacrificed on our behalve for our sins, and Abrahams was obedient to His Voice, and God blessed him. Abraham didint’ make sense of it all but just trusted in the Invisible One. He knew His Voice.

These people of faith pursued after the Voice of God, they lived for Him even when it didint’ make sense. They didnt’ live for ‘a church programs/ideas’, they lived for God. They didnt’ put God in a box(imagine a size of shoebox)- but God is outside of that box!

Colossians 2:19
“and not holding fast to the Head, from Whom the whole body, nourished and knit togather through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.”

They held fast to the Head, then the body became joined togather. God comes first then others
Live for God and He Will build His Church (called out ones)- unless the Lord builds the House, those who build it labour in vain Ps 127, all we called to do is “Seek His Kingdom” and He will do the Rest. Let Him build His Church, His Way the Way He wants to do it.
Let us be joined to Him, He must come First not us or any other man.

Bless you

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A New Creation, Mp3 John Crowder

Posted by Grace Revolution on January 21, 2010

It will transform your life!!!

Goto this link and listen to the first message:

http://www.jubilee.org.au/index.cfm?i=6163&mid=18

Hello friends!!!!

I’m listening to this awesome powerful clear message by John Crowder about the New Creation we have in Christ Jesus!!! This is the probably the best explanation I’ve heard so far- It’s not about the sinful nature anymore, but it’s All about the New Creation we have in Christ Jesus and Renewing your mind to believe it so that your act like who you Really Are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Redeemed from the Curse of the Law, MP3 audio

Posted by Grace Revolution on November 8, 2009

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08/11/09

Yesterday was sharing a message to a group of believers about how God spoke to me about on Galatians 3:13 about Christ redeeming us from the curse of the law so that we might receive the blessing given to Abraham.

Here is a quick list of the notes and I will update it again soon in more detail- i made a couple of small mistakes in my talk.

Feel free to give any feedback, questions, challenges and answers because it helps us all to grow and expand our understanding of the truth.

Galatians 3 10 But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.”*11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”*12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”* 13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”*14 Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised* Holy Spirit through faith.
Deuteronomy 2123 the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung* is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession.

Obedience to the law results in blessings Deut 28:1-14

Disobedience to the law results in horrible curses Deut 28:15-68

Law is one unit

James 2 10 For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God’s laws.11 For the same God who said, “You must not commit adultery,” also said, “You must not murder.”* So if you murder someone but do not commit adultery, you have still broken the law.

In our day, what else can the ‘law’ refer to?
The ‘law’ not only stands for the Mosaic law, but it can also stand for church laws/traditions, denominations laws, or any requirements you put on yourself in order to obtain righteousness before God, right standing before God.

What is legalism? or does it mean to be ‘living under the law’?
i.e. if you don’t do this or dont’ do that, then God won’t love you anymore and He will be angry with you. God will only love you if you do this and that- conditional love.

What is the purpose of the Law?

-To reveal sin.

Romans 3 19 Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God.20 For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.

-To Stirup sin. Romans 7:8-13; 1 Corinthians 15:56

-To stop the mouth. Romans 3:19-20

-To lead us to Christ. Galatians 3:24

Are Christians under the old covenant law?

No. We live by the Spirit by Faith in Christ’s blood, we don’t live by external rules and laws written on tablets of stone but an inward guiding of the Holy Spirit of Grace that doesn’t bring any condemnation, guilty or curse but brings freedom and spontaneity.

Galatians 2:19; 5:18

Romans 6:14; 7:4

1 Timothy 1:8-11

We live by faith in Christ and we are made right with God through a Gift.

Galatians 2:20

Romans 3:21-26

Genesis 15:6; Habakuk 2:4

God swore an oath to never be angry with us again

Isaiah 54:9-10;43:25, Hebrews 8:8-13

We overcome the devil, the accuser of our brothers and sisters by the blood of Jesus given to us by God because God is FOR us not against us!! He is our Defender not our accuser!!

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Spirit lead, free, organic church life

Posted by Grace Revolution on November 7, 2009

John 17: 20-23

“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony, 17:21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. 17:22 The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one – 17:23 I in them and you in me – that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

God the Father want’s His Church- His children, Called out ones, to be one. No matter what organisation, church group, denominations we belong to, no matter what differences we have in our beliefs in various doctrine of the Bible (just as long its not contradicing the essential truths of the faiths) we all need to humble ourselves, love each other, be teachable, work with one another for the Kingdom of God as much as we can, depending on the leading of the Holy Spirit.

I remember once I was talking to a hindu man about God. He said to me something like this, “Your religion/church is like mine; you have many groups, denominations such as baptists, pentecostals etc… many churches with different names. So it is the same with Hindus- there are many groups within Hindu relgion and many different ‘churches’ within.”

Then it hit me, one stumbling block for the world to see the church as one is this: our denominations, groups, names, organisations.

No what came to my mind was rob rufus saying something last year at glory and grace in sydney in session no.1 and 2,

“this not really about Law and Grace, it’s about who controls the church: does the man control the church, or does the Holy Spirit control the church?”

and in Session 3 He really preaches against the control spirit.

It can be downloaded from City Church International website

Christianity is simple; it’s all about Jesus from beginning to end; Its about a Person- God Himself. A passionate pursuit of Him, relationship with Him. Let’s not complicate it with traditions of man and good ideas of man that have no biblical basis and no church history to back it up even though they sound ‘good’.

It’s good to study church history.

The early church never owned one church building until the 3rd century when pagan emperor constantine did it while there were pagan temples around. It was Roman emperor Constantine’s fault because He was a pagan worshipper as well as a so called “christian”.

The early church never owned one church building and yet turned the world upside down; they wouldn’t want to own a church building because the pagans had their temples, the Jews had their synagogue and temple, it would have only confused the gospel message if they had! and had not the Lord said, “My body is the temple”.

Put yourselves in their shoes and imagine for a moment:

The early disciples realised they were the building of Jesus; they grew up in a culture of ‘temples’, pagan shrines and temples, for them to realise that they were God’s temple, it immediately would have taken away the need to have a ‘temple’ where ‘God lives’. Having a building today in our day was not part of early church tradition and also it only confuses the unsaved.

They turned the world upside down without one church building; they met in homes, outside in public places, on the streets, by the river, wherever they could. Buildings weren’t a issue for them, this world is soon passing away and will be burnt with fire. (2 Peter 3:10-13), Jesus is coming back in their soon in their lifetime (the early church sincerely believed that Jesus was coming back in their lifetime. 1Thessalonians 4:13-18)

And yet the church of our day has all sorts of buildings and monuments and its powerless to change the world.

So what happens when a meeting in a house becomes too big? well they go into another home? what if there is no leader to lead it?

Well that’s exactly right! God will take care of it!

Man loose control of the church and God  the Holy Spirit takes control!! it wasn’t a problem in Acts, they didn’t have that kind of thinking in place? ” do we have a leader? otherwise we can’t meet in a home?”

It says somewhere in Acts 4:4 that the number of men were 5000 people (not counting woman and children). But Acts 6:1-7 says appoint 7 deacons. so that is 7 deacons for 5000 people at least, not a very clever way to control the people beacuse that would mean about 700 for one deacon!!

That’s exactly right- man loose control of the church, the Holy Spirit takes control!

There is no need to have a ‘leader’ for every house group or home group meeting that takes place. there is no record of that in acts.

Church is not a ‘business’, church is a family. Whenever you have a business meeting supposed you have to have someone who directs it- (put all the seats in rows, dress up in nice clothing and listening to a message), but when family members get together, they can just enjoy each other’s company without worrying about ‘”who” is the leading the meeting?”

The church of God is the Family of God but sadly it is usually runned like a Business/

What about elders and deacons? Yes, it’s a biblical but they are birthed as God births it in his time, not our time. Not every church had elders and deacons in a same time frame I don’t think. The book of Galatians had no elders and deacons because Paul never mentioned any in his letter to the churches in Galatia.

1 Corinthians 16:19 Aquila and priscilla had a church in their house.

The key again is this: man loose control of the church, but the Holy Spirit takes control.

Who is building His Church? Who does it belong to?

Jesus is building His Church, not man. Matthew 16:18

There is a book about church history how pagan thinking crept into the church and created church traditions that have no biblical backing. He has a blog and I just got his book yesterday from Koorong bookshop in springwood, it has some good stuff.

http://www.paganchristianity.org/

I believe traditions and good ideas of men are ‘laws’ in themselves and enable men to control the church, but Grace releases men from traditions and allows the Holy Spirit to take control.

Galatians 5:18

“But if you are lead by the Spirit, you are not under the law.“

Any laws mean- church tradition laws as well- anything that is not in the Word of God.

It’s only the Glory of God that will make us One (John 17:22), and it comes by the Holy Spirit, being lead by Him, not by human laws and traditions of man which is doctrine of demons.

Bless you hope this helps :)

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Liberating Church leadership Testimony

Posted by Grace Revolution on September 11, 2009

Dear friends, I would like to share with you something happening in the gold coast. I’m really blessed by it and have learnt alot through it. I hope this will stir you and make you think more. THis is not to puff up bradley or anything like that, but its to boast of the freedom you and I have in Christ Jesus! There is better way i believe my friends. :)
Please pray about it the Holy Spirit will give you understanding.

Recently through a divine appointment we met this really strong christian lady full of HOly Spirit and Joy on the Gold Coast.
She was unhappy about religion and traditions of man in the church, chruch politics and saw that the church was doing nothing to reach out to people but was asking people for money. The church was controlling, and she waited and waited to do something for God.
So after a while, she decided she’s going to get back reaching out to the backslidden and newly christians in her home, having prayer nights and bible studies and meals, doing free lunches bbqs on the beach to people on the beach and reaching out to the needy.
Then one night we were in her home and she was asking bradley, who’s starting a kingdom culture “church” in the gold coast.
Bradley said something like this to her,
“We are not here to start a new church. we are here to establish a kingdom culture.”
With regards to the Lady starting bible study in her home and reaching out to the lost, Brad said something along these lines,
“You run with your thing. We are not going to touch it. YOu just run wild and do what God has put on your heart. If you invite us to come on friday nights, we’ll come. We’ll sit there and listen and be part of it. If you want us to share, we’ll share. But at the end of the day, it’s you thing; we won’t touch it. You don’t even have to come to us for permission and ask, “hey i’m going to be doing this on friday night, what do you think?”
No, you just go and run with it. All we want is your testimonies. Share with us your testimonies, and share it on sunday. You go and do whatever God has put onyour heart, and bring the people on sunday and I’ll do my part which is to preach the Word. My part is to be a convering, prayerfor you.
Our church back in dubai, Well of LIfe, was like this. A chinese lady was runnign bible studies, we didin’t touch her thing, some of the people in the group came to our church and some of the people didn’t. It didnt’ matter.
God is saying, “Let My people go so that they may worship Me alone!!”

THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE BOOK OF ACTS!!
Friends, I ‘m so blessed by this. There are churches all over the world who operate organic life Holy Spirit lead ways like this.
Let the people of God go free so that they may serve God alone!!
Let’s trust God and let the people of God run wild!!!
Honestly i’ve learnt so much. I have even been a deacon before for a few months back a few years ago, but i never understood back then.
Leaders are “examplers” rather than “dictators”.
The only example I could think of that the Scriptures give controlling type leadership is the Pharisees. Matthew 23.
This doesn’t mean that brad won’t be ordaining  leaders such as deacons and elders. He’s not against leadership if you know what I mean.
Check out thexpoint.com

I feel free, Brad is not above me, it’s not hierachical. We submit to one another out of reverence for Christ!!!
Freedom!!!!!

love and bless ya!!!
Tony

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