To depend on unreliable things is to miss God' power .

God gave this powerful revelation to me early this morning .

Many Christians depend on unreliable things . God's desire is that we should rely on Him only . The reason is that God is the only absolutely reliable source that exist .God knows that our life's will never be completely pleasant and powerful while we still depend on unreliable things . God can never be unreliable . Once you have learned to depend on God only , your life will be filled with the power and Glory of God . Fear is the opposite of faith . Faith will reign in your life . Fear will be absent .

Israel found themselves in unreliable circumstances in Egypt . Pharaoh was completely unreliable as well . God's intention was to save and separate them from the powerful influence that the unreliable circumstances had on them . Unreliability is a powerful spiritual force that satan use to separate people from their inheritance of power and glory in Christ .

Unreliability will eat away your joy and hope and power that you have in Christ . It will hinder you severely to live out your God given vision . It will prevent you from having hope in your and your family's future . It will prevent you from loving people in a graceful and merciful way .

Unreliability is a very important aspect to understand . If your don't get a Godly understanding of it ,then you will struggle to have dominion over all circumstances . Every disappointment will hinder your faith to operate powerfully in your life . Unreliability causes uncertainty and fear . It brings hardship and pain . It is the cause of great losses in your life . It will make you to loose a lot of money and opportunities , because the fear and uncertainty that unreliability brings into your spiritual life , will cause you to make unwise and often very expensive mistakes .

“Lord Jesus Christ ,please open our eyes to understand the danger of relying ,consciously or sub-consciously on unreliable things” .

Jeremiah 17:5-8 BBE

(5) This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

(6) For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

(7) A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

(8) For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

Israel was saved and taken away from unreliable people and circumstances by God . They however desired later on in their journey to the promised land ,the land of reliability , to go back to a life dependant on unreliable circumstances again . They made Aaron their strength ,they made a golden calf their strength and suffered severely because of it .

Power and joy and hope will come into your life and ministry once you understand unreliability and the effects thereof . Once you understand that people are unreliable . Once you understand that everything that does not come from God is unreliable . Once you understand that you must repent and ask God to forgive you for relying on unreliable circumstances and persons and not on Him alone .

God will always bring you to a point where you understand unreliability first , to a point where you feel the severe heat and effects of unreliability first , before He will open up the windows of heaven to shower you with constant power and joy and blessings from heaven .

You cannot have true life in Christ while you depend ,even only slightly on unreliable things . Decide today to take up your true life in Christ . It will bring you great joy and power . People who live without worries are cheerful givers again . You will stop to try and gather security and stability only for yourself and your family . There is no abundance and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit and righteousness in it . If you really live ,then you will rather give than gather . That will open up God's blessings for you . When you give ,even when you don't have abundance , it is a sign that you know that what you have came from God's reliable provision for you and not from unreliable people . Praise God !.

Malachi 3:10 BBE

(10) Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

John the Baptist was a reliable witness at one stage in his life . John however fell into the trap of relying on a unreliable ,powerful man namely Herod . It literally cost him his head in the end . John took offence to the ministry of Jesus . It made him unstable in all his ways .

Mark 6:20 MSG

(20) because Herod was in awe of John. Convinced that he was a holy man, he gave him special treatment. Whenever he listened to him he was miserable with guilt--and yet he couldn't stay away. Something in John kept pulling him back.

Soon after these “favourable” conditions Herod made an unreliable statement and it caused John's death .

Mark 6:25-27 MSG

(25) Excited, she ran back to the king and said, "I want the head of John the Baptizer served up on a platter. And I want it now!"

(26) That sobered the king up fast. But unwilling to lose face with his guests, he caved in and let her have her wish.

(27) The king sent the executioner off to the prison with orders to bring back John's head. He went, cut off John's head,

Even the disciples of Jesus could initially ,before they were filled from above with the power of the Holy Spirit ,not make reliable observations and decisions . They still needed Jesus to teach them to be completely reliable in all circumstances themselves .

Jesus were reliable in all circumstances . When you are in the presence of Christ you can confidently rely on Him to meet all of your needs , even your physical needs . The disciples were unreliable in this respect ,but Jesus taught them that it is not right to let people down , whatever

the circumstances are .

Mark 6:34-44 MKJV

(34) And going out Jesus saw a large crowd. And He was moved with compassion toward them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.

(35) And it now becoming a late hour, His disciples came to Him and said, This is a deserted place and it is now a late hour.

(36) Send them away so that they may go to the surrounding fields and villages and buy loaves for themselves. For they have nothing to eat.

(37) He answered and said to them, You give them food to eat. And they said to Him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii of loaves and give them to eat?

(38) He said to them, How many loaves do you have? Go and see. And when they knew, they said, Five, and two fish.

(39) And He commanded them all to recline, group by group, on the green grass.

(40) And they reclined group by group, by hundred and by fifty.

(41) And taking the five loaves and the two fish, He looked up to Heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to set before them. And He divided the two fish to all.

(42) And they all ate and were filled.

(43) And they took up twelve hand baskets full of fragments, also from the fish.

(44) And those eating the loaves were about five thousand men.

Open up your heart and allow God to teach you what real trust in Him are .

Be Blessed

Bertus

Hindered to receive what is yours .

God's purpose for each and everyone of us is to receive a life saturated with His Glory and Presence . This life does not differ from heavenly life at all . There is no sickness and disease in heaven ,neither is there any sickness and disease in the life Christ has given to you . There is no poverty in heaven ,neither is poverty part of your life in Christ . There is no sorrow and pain in heaven ,neither is there any sorrow and pain present in the life Christ has given you .

Adam and Eve received life and lost full possession of it ,by trying to add something else in addition to the life they enjoyed . They did it contrary to God's command . Immediately they lost full possession of their Paradise life . It was still there but they were spiritually incapable of taking hold of it . In other word's the spiritual connection to their true Godly life's died . They were left stranded with their natural life's only . By God's grace they could still spiritually connect to Him , but were now also hampered severely by the worries and burdens their natural life's put on them . The only way out was for God to help them to recover spiritually again .

God provided an interface between His Spirit and that of man in the form of faith . By using this God given interface ,man could regain his/her life in the Presence and Glory of God . Man however made further decisions to rather follow what their flesh , their carnal minds focussed on . They drifted further and further away from the Life line God provided for them .

Abraham was an amazing man . God saw something in his heart and God quickened his faith . Abraham then used faith to still his mind of all the carnal , fleshly worries . He focussed on God only . He focussed on every Word God spoke to him . Then something awesome happened . Abraham saw how God was going to restore the true life of every human being on earth . Abraham by faith saw how Christ was going to bring our life back to us ,because no man or woman was in the position to regain or restore it themselves .

Abraham saw that Christ was going to make us righteous again . Righteousness was the instrument to help us to get away from our fleshly worries ,sickness ,disease ,sorrows ,disillusionments and pain . Righteousness would bring God's affection ,like that of a father back to our deepest perceptions and inner spiritual beings .

Abraham believed the vision God gave him by faith . The moment he believed it , he received the same righteousness that we have in Christ today . It is remarkable that he received it by faith approximately 1,900 years before the birth of Christ . Abraham's faith could therefore take hold of something that was destined to happen 1,900 years later .

Genesis 15:5-6 BBE

(5) And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

(6) And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

It did not end there .It was only the beginning of a supernatural Godly life for Abraham . Abraham did not only received righteousness by faith ,he also got his real life back that was hidden in God .

The spiritual therefore had dominion over the shortcomings of his carnal nature . Abraham was successful in every situation he found himself in . Abraham were put in the desert and he changed it into a fertile land . Abraham dug wells and no one could stop the water flowing abundantly from them . Abraham had dominion , he reigned in life by faith .

Genesis 18:18 BBE

(18) Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

Genesis 21:22 BBE

(22) Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

In order for Abraham to develop even stronger spiritually by using the faith that God gave him , God put Abraham's believe to the test . God did not test Abraham's faith . God gave Abraham the faith , He did not have to test it , God knew the power of it . God put Abraham's believe to the test . Believing is your answer to the faith God provided for you . Believing was Abraham's answer to the faith God gave him . By believing ,you can regain your God given life filled with His Glory and Provision and Power . Nothing can overwhelm you . In this life you have the power of dominion over all circumstances . Yes literally all circumstances . By believing you bring heavenly life to earth . Abraham did not get it it after he died . He got it while he was still alive . Enoch also believed and he never died . So did Elijah believed and he never died .

John 11:26 MKJV

(26) And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?

Abraham past every test and grew stronger and stronger spiritually . The tests was not for God to find out how well Abraham was doing . No, God knew exactly how strong Abraham believed before a test . The tests were implemented for Abraham's sake . Abraham did not always know how precious and powerful the gift of faith that God gave Him by His Grace was . Abraham did not always know how strong he could believe and also what could be accomplished by his believe . After the test Abraham was amazed by the power of faith , by the glorious outcome when one take God on His Word and speak it till the results manifest .

Gradually the Glory of God started to fill the earth again . More and more people followed the example of Abraham and many other men and woman of God .

At the appointed time God sent His Son Jesus , the Christ , to actually bring the righteousness that Abraham saw and operated in ,as a gift of His Grace and Mercy to us all . To every person on earth .

Now, a far greater and even more powerful life were released from the Cross . People came under a strong spiritual conviction that God loves them . They understand that God is here to save them from the woes and sorrows of this life . They understand that their sin problems is solved on the Cross . They understand that they themselves could never attain the righteousness required by the Holiness of God .They understand that Christ gave them everything they need in this life to experience their destined Paradise life again . They looked away from the shortcomings and stress and strain and pain that comes from the carnal life , and set their eyes on Christ alone to spiritually take hold of their real life in Christ .

2 Peter 1:2-12 BBE

(2) May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

(3) Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;

(4) And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

(5) So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

(6) And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

(7) And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

(8) For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(9) For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

(10) For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

(11) For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

(12) For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

Two things were given to us by Christ . Complete forgiveness of al sin and unrighteousness . Then Christ also restored our position in the Presence of God ,by making us righteous . That means that we can boldly enjoy God's Presence and Provision and Love for us without any hindrances whatsoever .The moment the hindrances are ignored ,and put aside by your believe ,then you will experience the sheer power and Glory of your God given life of dominion over all things .

Philippians 2:13-15 BBE

(13) For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

(14) Do all things without protests and arguments;

(15) So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

John 10:10 MKJV

(10) The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

The true life that Christ restored for us is a life in the Kingdom of God . Look above at 2 Peter 1 again ! .

Verse 11 says : (11) For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Read the context carefully . It is clearly meant for your now , present life on earth ,and not for a life beyond the pearly gates “one day up yonder “ .

You need to be fertile now to be able to shine as a light of God's Glory in the face of corruption and pain around you . Your light will bring a change . You cannot bring any change when you are overwhelmed by the troubles of this world .

2 Peter 1 :

(8) For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Phillipians 2 :

(15) So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Let us examine this Kingdom life which is our Gift from Christ . I mean you can barely wait to open up presents given to you by very important and wealthy persons . Why not have the same desire and urge and enthusiasm to open up your present from God ! .

I have said it many times over and over again . You need two things to have absolute peace and joy . You need forgiveness of sins and you need a new life in Christ that is absent of any pain and worries etc . You received both from Christ when He cried out , “ it is finished “ on the Cross “ .

This whole introduction of what I want to share with you today ,were necessary to help you to understand the life in Christ that you actually have in you , but often don't experience practically . That means that other people can't see that God is with you , that you are acceptable in His sight and presence . They can't see the glorious Light of God that is in you , because it is disguised by your own worries and struggles in life . It is not what God intened for you to experience at all .

Your life in the Kingdom of God can therefore be disguised , even nullified by certain things . You can be saved from sin , the first requirement , but still not have a life of abundance in everything , from practical things to spiritual things . The forgiveness of sins is not the sole purpose of the Cross

To have an abundant life on earth exactly , no , even better than what Adam and Eve had , is God's purpose for you . God advanced in filling the earth with His Glory since the days of Adam and Eve , that is why we can enjoy more . It doesn't help the world very much to see a person that is saved from sin ,but live in poverty and sickness , a life of pain and ,lack and worries . People won't be interested in serving a “god” that can't help them in life .

Matthew 23:13 MKJV

(13) But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

Mark 7:13 KJV

(13) Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

This is a very important and interesting statement from Mark 7 :13 .

Tradition is one of the things that can make the Word of God , which is the very source of your life of Glory in Christ , to NO effect . That means that you can be saved ,but live a very miserable life . You can be moved into such a position or kept in bondage in such a position by believing in what religious traditions say to you and require you to do .

How does this detrimental religious tradition thing operate in our day and age ?

In order to understand it's operation it is important to understand that the LIFE we are talking about does NOT originate from ANY RELIGION at all . There is not a single religion on the face of the earth that can move you into a position where you can enjoy abundant life in Christ .

Christianity is NOT a RELIGION ,it is a LIFE . By the grace and mercy of God you receive the very same triumphant , glorious ,powerful ,love filled Life that Christ have at the right hand of God's Throne right now. God will never give you a religion to save you and also give you an abundant life . No He gave you much ,much more than a religion or a church or a denomination . He gave you the Life of Christ . You have the Life of God in you !

God make use of witnesses to reveal His Power and Glory to people .

The most important Witnesses is God , the Holy Spirit and Christ.

Hebrews 10:15 MKJV

(15) The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us;...

1 John 5:7 BBE

(7) And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

1 John 5:9 MKJV

(9) If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which He has testified about His Son.

John 5:36 BBE

(36) But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

Then God is also using people as witnesses of His Glory and Power !

Acts 4:33 BBE

(33) And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.

Acts 14:3 BBE

(3) So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

Acts 15:8 BBE

(8) And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 KJV

(1) And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

(2) For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

(3) And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

(4) And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

(5) That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

(6) Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

(7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

(8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

(9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

(10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

(11) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

(13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

(15) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

(16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

John the baptist :

Luke 1:17 BBE

(17) And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

I have deliberately quoted more than enough texts to illustrate the important characteristics of true witnesses used by God .

True witnesses have revelation knowledge . They can reveal the great mysteries of God . Their words are spoken with Godly power . They have the mind of Christ and not of the world .

The things they teach come from the Holy Spirit , so the Holy Spirit will also confirm the truth they speak in your spirit . They speak the wisdom of God . They demonstrate the Spirit and the Power of God . God will give witness that their words are true and that it come from Him indeed .

Signs and wonders will take place by their hands to confirm the Word of grace they teach . Look at this verse again .

Acts 14:3 BBE

(3) So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

There are also false witnesses .

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 BBE

(13) For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

(14) And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

(15) So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.

True witnesses are only required to say what they have actually heard or seen . They are never required to carefully construct a story intermingled with their own thoughts and ideas and conclusions . If they try to do that ,then their testimony will be discarded in a court of law . No they are only required to witness about what they have seen and heard in their own words .

The disciples and Paul for instance witnessed about the Life that Christ restored for all people on the Cross . Nothing more ,nothing less ,nothing that contradict or oppose that came out of their mouths . When they gave testimony about the Life in Christ ,then miracles start to happen . People were healed , raised from the dead , demons were cast out etc. In other words they could demonstrate the power of the life in Christ . They focussed on nothing else ,they demonstrated nothing else but the Life giving Power of Christ that were IN them .

Every Word that Jesus spoke was focussed to explain His sole purpose for coming to the earth ,namely to establish the Kingdom of God .The Kingdom of God is even more powerful than the life in the Paradise that Adam and Eve enjoyed . It is a more powerful continuation of the life in Paradise . Simply because God does not only repair damage ,He creates a better replacement . We are not only conquerers , we are MORE than conquerers .

Romans 8:37 KJV

(37) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Luke 4:43 BBE

(43) But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent.

1 Corinthians 2:2 BBE

(2) For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Let us now examine religions in the light of what he have discussed so far .

Unity is important . Where true witnesses flock together ,their will be unity among them .

John 17:16-21 KJV

(16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

(17) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

(18) As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

(19) And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

(20) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

(21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

There are literally thousands and ten thousands and hundred thousands of different religions all over the world . Just about everyone of them claim that adherence to their doctrines and systems and ways of doing things will bring you in contact either directly or indirectly with some form of godly influence .

Among the many different religions is religions that claim they can bring us into contact with God . They use the Bible as a point of reference . They claim that God is present in their meetings and services .

The problem is that God never created people to serve Him via a religion . Man were not made for religion at all . Neither was religion made for man . Man were made to reign on the earth while enjoying perfect fellowship with God . There was no lack in any form whatsoever . No religion was required at all .

God use people to fill the earth with His Glory . They do it by proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and by demonstrating the indwelling power of the Kingdom of God in them .

Every person is capable of filling the earth with the Glory and Power of God . In this scenario again God do things in a way that go far beyond our thoughts . God decided that every human being would be a King in His Kingdom . God decided that everyone of us should be like Him ,both in character and function . We have the mind of Christ ,the likeness of Christ and the Power of Christ on earth . That is our inheritance . Christ died already , the inheritance is already ours .

God is waiting for us to enjoy it and reign over everything . We cannot work hard or do many things to fullfil our purpose on earth . We can only start to enjoy it . Adam and Eve woke up in Paradise . They were not required to do many things in order for them to advance into Paradise .

Neither can we do anything to earn the right to live in the Kingdom of God . When Christ rose from the grave we rose with Him into our new life in the Kingdom of God . We woke up from in the Kingdom of God .

Now how does it happen that people miss the Kingdom of God again . How is it possible that many people still don't know that they have a Kingdom to live in . The answer is that they are removed from their inheritance by rather believing in something else . They listen to a different “gospel” ,than the only Gospel of the Kingdom of God that Christ Himself and Paul and the disciples preached .

By their ignorance they give up their inheritance and then they are stranded only with the woes of a carnal life on earth . It kills them slowly day by day . The tragic thing is that it is not necessary to happen at all .

Some of them however see the Kingdom of God when it is presented to them . They hear the true Gospel and believe it . The Word has it's own power to open up the Kingdom of God to them . The Word have all the keys of the different rooms of the Kingdom of God in it .

They are the keys to your abundant life in Christ .

True witnesses of God will help you to find them and use them .

Religions will confuse you seriously . Life will bring you joy . Christianity is not another religion it is a Life .

People will enjoy the conversation and fellowship of other people ,till one of them ask “ to what religion do you belong ? “ . From that moment serious division will separate them . Make them to avoid each other in the future .

Sometimes they may even be from the same religion , but their perception of a doctrine in their religion may differ . It will have the same effect . It will divide them ,even up to a point where they will go to the same church ,but not speak to each other .

Doctrines cannot bring unity in any religion , because every doctrine is based on something . It is derived from something . In so called Christian religions it is derived from the Bible . It does not help at all ,simply because it is still subjected to every person's interpretation . It may even accurately or inaccurately depict what the Bible mean by a certain verse or verses . Ten people will then read it and they will come up with ten different interpretations . Unity is still lacking then .

God's alternative for you is to have contact with the life giving power of the Word . When you come back from your encounter with the Word ,everyone will have the opportunity to experience the effect that the Word have on you . If they believe in God and are serious about the Life that the Gospel tell them about ,then they will respect the indwelling power of the Word in you . If they reject you ,then they also reject the Word ,they reject Christ as well . They will avoid you and go their own way . Later they will desperately need exactly what they rejected . They will do everything ,give everything they have to come into contact with the power of the Word in you again . They will need you to help them to find the way to the Kingdom of God again .

They will not be attracted to another religion . They will know life is far more important than religion . They need life . They will despise religion that brought them into captivity in the first place .

Please make sure you come together with people that can demonstrate the life of Christ in them !

Something positive must happen . In Mark 4 Jesus asked His disciples : Mark 4:39-41 MKJV

(39) And He awakened and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Peace! Be still! And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

(40) And He said to them, Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?

(41) And they feared exceedingly and said to one another, What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?

Do you have no faith . Christ meant , “something should have come from your faith . Either the fear in your hearts should have subsided or the storm should have come to an end ,but nothing happened , that is not normal , that is a position of no faith “ .” My goodness something must happen . If you go on like this ,you will die “ !

Do I have a religion ? . No I don't ,frankly ,because I don't need one . Do I have true life in

Christ ? . Yes I have , frankly because that is the thing I need the most , and Christ gave it to me .

Religions wil scrutinize your believes and if it doesn't fit their system or interpretation of their system they will reject you .

It should be the other way round . Religions should adapt their systems and doctrines according to the source that gives you power in your life .

Spiritual people are easily rejected by religions . The Baptist see you as not “Baptist” enough and reject you . The Presbyterians see you as not “Presbyterian enough and reject you . How is such a mess possible ? Change is absolutely necessary .

Be Blessed

Bertus

Too many things make you loose your way !

I realized this morning while enjoying God's presence that there are too many things that Christians keep themselves busy with . It cause them to neglect the most important aspect of their life's ,namely to be successful in everything they do , as God is successful in everything He does .

The many things Christians do divert them from the central message and opportunity given to them by the power of the Word .

Jesus was prepared for thirty years by His Father and our Father to preach only ONE message ,namely the message of the Kingdom of God . That is the message that gives us the power to have dominion over all things ,just as God have dominion over all things in heaven .

God prepared the earth as a part of heaven . He made the earth for us . He made the earth to bring us exactly the same privileges that is in heaven right now . There is no sickness in heaven ,there is no poverty in heaven ,there is no corruption and crime in heaven ,there is no addiction in heaven . Nothing that robs us of our joy and peace and energy and ecstasy to enjoy life in the very presence of God every day is meant to be part of our life's on earth .

The negative aspects of life cannot be removed by natural or human efforts at all . They can only be removed by spiritual means . The central message of the Word is exactly that , namely how to have dominion and remove everything that come against us . I am not even talking conquering . Christ conquered every negative and detrimental and obstructing thing on this earth . There is absolutely nothing on earth that can prevent us from having full joy and peace by simply having dominion over all things . Christ made it fully possible for everyone of us .

The Kingdom of God has come on earth just as it is in heaven . The Kingdom of God exist as a far greater reality than the reality that we see and experience every day . It is a spiritual reality of truth that WE must manifest and establish on earth . God gave is the power to do it . God is expecting you to do it . God will not do it by any other means . He decided that He will create a earth . The Spiritual aspects of God became a reality . It was changed from being spiritual to being material . No human being could do that . God did not ever decide to leave heaven and come down to earth and establish a heaven here as well . No , God made the earth and decide to put human beings on it to have dominion over it . Human beings are spiritual and material at the same time . Human beings are spirits that live in a material ,fleshly body . Human beings are perfectly designed to dominate the earth . Angels can't do it because they are spiritual only . Angels need a body before they can operate on earth . They need a body or the territory where a human being has conquered spiritually before they can operate on God's command .

If you examine the Scriptures you will discover that angels reacted on the command of God only

Human beings were always part of the situation . Lot was a righteous man . His righteousness and his daily walk with God in the territory that God sent him to ,and entrusted to him , gave Lot dominion over that territory . Lot did not have the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit like we do . When Lot fulfilled his material and spiritual tasks in that territory , God sent His angels to fullfil what Lot has prepared . They could not operate in that territory unless it was spiritually and materially prepared by a man or woman of God . Lot did not conquer the whole territory in which the cities were practically , that is “materially “ . It did not prevent the eventual conquering of the cities that followed . Let me explain it further .

There is practical or material tasks that must be fulfilled . There is also spiritual tasks and occupation of a domain on earth that must be fulfilled . Lot has to be physically present in the territory where Sodom and Gemmora were situated . He bought or build a house there ,he lived in his house with his family . Lot was a righteous man . He physically spoke out against all the un-Godly things that people said and did in that area . The important thing to understand is that Lot operated physically but with Godly given spiritual power and authority . It did not change everything in a practical sense immediately , but while the change were not always physically noticeable ,it did change spiritually in a big way . Lot conquered physically and spiritually .

Lot's house was a place where he had physical dominion . The bad men of the city tried , but could not enter his house at any stage . The bad men still had dominion in other areas of the city ,but it was only physically . Lot did have spiritual dominion over the cities because of his spiritual labour and obedience to God in that area . The spiritual is always stronger and will eventually conquer and dominate the physical . In Lot's case the bad were removed from the area

Many Christians try a lot of other spiritual and religious and practical things because they don't believe that they are making progress spiritually . If something does not change quickly enough according to what their physical senses could observe , then they leave their position of faith and waiting upon the Lord in faith, and try something else . They actually leave their God given position of authority that is the foundation and origin of a Godly life on earth . The Word says we can only live by faith , They don't believe it . They think if they change their physical position or circumstances ,then they will “do better in life “ . They are wrong . The physical changes come by faithful spiritual obedience and trust in God . Sometimes they don't believe in the ONE ,absolutely CENTRAL to the Word message, the message of the Kingdom of God that Christ were specifically send to preach and proclaim and demonstrate on earth in order that we could have dominion over the whole earth ,like Adam and Eve again .

Luke 4:43 KJV

(43) And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.

Your sole purpose in life , everyday that you wake up on the earth is to set your full attention to the fact that you are on the earth to have dominion . To know that Christ died for this purpose . He did not only gave you His Blood to cleanse you ,He also gave you His Body ,the True Bread of life in order for you to have dominion over all circumstances on the earth . God is not going to destroy the earth . He is busy right now to fill the whole earth with His Glory . God decide to use YOU to bring the Glory of Heaven on this earth by what you do and say .

He made it fully possible for you . You can enter into the labour of Christ . You can start to enjoy what Christ has accomplished on your behalf . You can make the Glory of heaven to manifest on earth . Eventually it will also become visible in the area where you live and established your God given dominion . Far above what you can see or even think , your spiritual dominion is growing by the second . At the right time it will break through practically as well . All the people will see it . Your eyes will see it and your heart will praise God and say “ it is worth it to believe God ,it is worth it to take His Word in and SPEAK it every day . I could never dream it would have such an enormous effect in my environment and on the earth “.

Don't try spiritual warfare today , a 40 day fast tomorrow , a course on prayer , a dedication to praise and worship , a attempt to remove “idols” in your house or town , a book on the suffering etc. , before you don't fully understand and commit yourself to the ONE message Jesus preached and demonstrated to all the people for more than the three years He had the opportunity to live on earth ,in order to set us free to actually understand and DO and proclaim this one message only , till all His people become more than conquerers , a city on a hill , the light of the world .

Till this world is filled ,completely filled with His Glory only .

The un -Godly will be raptured away ,not His son's and daughters . He prepared this Kingdom on earth for us . Why would He rapture us away from our heritage . People twisted the Scriptures to fit in with their negative view of the earth . Specially after World War two . Circumstances changed their understanding of the importance of the earth . When they saw the destruction men did during the wars ,then they decide God is going to abandone this mess . It is wrong . Circumstances must never change your faith . You have power over all circumstances. Now or later you will end up MORE than a conquerer . Circumstances must never change your mind on this . You can change the circumstances .

The sole purpose of your church or ministry or denomination where you go to , should be to advance the people in their understanding of the Kingdom of God . Every time they come together the members and preachers and teachers should only ask this one question to themselves “ are we advancing in our understanding ,speaking ( proclaiming verbally ) ,our practical doing of the Kingdom of God .

Here is a few Scriptures that will help you to make the biggest breakthrough that you can ever make in your life , that is to understand the Kingdom of God . Your Kingdom , where you are destined to reign as a King an Priest in Christ .

Here is the Scriptures of Lot's dominion by the power of God .

Lot :

Genesis 19:1-7 KJV

(1) And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

(2) And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

(3) And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

(4) But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

(5) And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

(6) And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

(7) And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Genesis 19:8-13 BBE

(8) See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.

(9) And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

(10) But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.

(11) But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.

(12) Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

(13) For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

The angels (spiritual ) came to Lot ( physical and spiritual ) first .

They took shelter in Lot's physical area of dominion ,his house .

The people did not like Lot's dominion and spiritual superiority :

Genesis 19:9 MSG

(9) They said, "Get lost! You drop in from nowhere and now you're going to tell us how to run our lives. We'll treat you worse than them!" And they charged past Lot to break down the door.

They thought they were on the winning side ,but actually they were on the losing side .

God heard Lot's outcry against the evil in the cities . God could not act if there was no man/woman to demonstrate His Glory and forgiveness and grace and mercy to the people .

The angels could only act as a result of Lot's presence in the area .God reacted on Lot's cries .

Some teachers mislead people by preaching an escape theory . They preach that God is going to take His children to heaven and then destroy a wicked ,messed up earth . They forget the following .

Since the creation of the earth it was never destroyed by God ,not even once . In the days of Noah God cleansed the earth by a flood . He did not destroy it . It was still there after the flood . It start to function again after the water subsided .

God will cleanse the earth ,not destroy it ever . God cannot and will not destroy His purpose to provide a Kingdom that is of the same quality as Heaven ,on earth .

Heaven is made for God ,not for people. We have the earth to change into heaven . Christ will then be “at home” on earth as he is in Heaven now . God doesn't want us to leave earth and go to Him . He is coming to us !

Revelation 21:2 KJV

(2) And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Isa 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool:

Matthew 5:48 KJV

(48) Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

1 Kings 8:30 BBE

30. Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy.

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The righteous dwell on the earth . God is protecting your place of dominion on earth !

Proverbs 24:15 KJV

(15) Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

You are designed ,created and destined to have dominion on earth ! .

Genesis 1:26-31 KJV

(26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

(27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

(28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

(29) And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

(30) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

(31) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

God repeated His command to fill the earth ,be fruitful on it and have dominion over it ,again after the flood .

Genesis 8:13-17 KJV

(13) And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

(14) And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

(15) And God spake unto Noah, saying,

(16) Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

(17) Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

The “burning” of the earth is not a literal flame of destruction . It is a picture of a flame that will purify the earth like in the days of Noah . We must always remember that the Kingdom of God has advanced significantly on the earth since the day s of Noah . The Kingdom was only proclaimed to man in the days of John the baptist for the first time . The time was right , the righteousness that we needed so desperately was ready to be given to us by Christ . Since the Cross all people can experience the righteousness of Christ . Before the Cross only a few people could see it from far off and take hold of it by faith . Abraham was the first one . Righteousness is important to reign on earth . Abraham received the gifts of heaven because he understood righteousness . He had dominion in the most difficult situations . He planted crops in the desert where no man could ,and reaped mega harvests from it .

The action from God to purify the earth will never be as severe as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorra , and Noah . It is not necessary because there are many sons and daughters of God present on the earth right at this moment . The people of God that is alive on the earth right now is much more than all the people that lived on the earth since the days of Noah . The more we have dominion over the earth and fill it with the Glory of God the less severe purification is necessary . It is getting better everyday ,not worse !

Proverbs 4:18 BBE

(18) But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

Isaiah 6:3 BBE

(3) And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.

The Greek word used for “flame” or “burn” in verse 10 (below) ,often used as “proof” of the imminent destruction of the earth can also be understood as a flame that purifies , like the flame used when gold is extracted from the ore . It does not destroy the gold and the ore . The flame only make it possible for the gold to be separated from the ore. This particular text namely 2 Pet 3 :10 is one of the texts that have many different variants in different translations of the Greek text . Personally I think the reason is that in many older languages the word fire or burn is very difficult to translate . A Light burn , the sun burn , gold is burned out of the ore , a fire burn ,wood is burned up etc . In some cases it does not lead to the destruction of the object that burns , for example when the light or the sun burns , or when gold is burned in order to extract it . In other cases it leads to the destruction of the object . For example when wood is burned in a fire . We must therefore allow the Scripture to declare Scripture . In this case it is not too difficult . Let us have a closer look .

The words “world “ and “earth” also have many different meanings .

Jesus said :

John 18:36 KJV

(36) Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Yet Jesus also prayed :

John 17:15 KJV

(15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

Luke 11:2 KJV

(2) And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

So sometimes the word “world” refers to the evil in the world and not he physical world itself .

Verses 12 and 13 helps us to understand what is meant by “burning” , the “earth” and the “world”

Verse 6 says the “world” has come to an end . Personally I understand it as the world of sin and evil that will come to an end . The systems the governments that harbours injustice in the world will end . The religious systems that judge and condemn people while they themselves walk in darkness will end . As I said the earth wasn't destroyed ,it was the world of sin that was destroyed in Noah's time .

Verse 13 says a new earth is left behind after the fire ,flame or burning ends . So again the earth is not destroyed . It is changed , confirms verse 12 . The heavens (plural) will come to an end . It does not say heaven it says heavens . It obviously does not refer to the heaven in which God live.

Personally again , I understand it as the bad spirits and principalities in the heavens that will come to a final end .

The Word coming from the mouth of God is like a consuming fire . So will the Word of God coming from our mouths also be ,it will burn away all the injustice of the face of the earth . The substance of the earth will be changed by us , through the Power of Christ ,the ever victorious One that also gave us victory over ALL things .

Psalms 104:1-5 KJV

(1) Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.

(2) Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

(3) Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

(4) Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

(5) Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

These verses are often given as a “proof” of the destruction of the earth . It is then linked to the Book of revelation to draw a very depressing picture of coming doom and gloom to the earth . In both instances there is NO proof of that in the Word of God . I will explain these verses now . In the case of Revelation it is clear that the Book of Revelation depicts what happened when Christ were crucified . It is a Revelation of Christ . It is NOT a revelation of what Satan is going to do . How can he still do such powerful things . He was conquered on the Cross . It is finished . His power and dominion was terminated on the Cross . Look at verse 1 , the key to the understanding of Revelation is already given there .

Revelation 1:1 KJV

(1) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

2 Peter 1:3 KJV

(3) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

“BURNING” of the earth .

2 Peter 3:6-10 BBE

(6) And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

(7) But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

(8) But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

(9) The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

(10) But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

(11) Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,

(12) Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

(13) But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

Revelation 11:15 KJV

(15) And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

1 John 5:4 KJV

(4) For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Ephesians 1:10 KJV

(10) That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Thanks for searching the Word with me ! .

Be Blessed

Bertus

Matthew 28:5-6 KJV

(5) And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

(6) He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.