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  • is this in there?

    RE: Wednesday night’s reading about the Temptation.

    Hey!

    Okay, people’s image of Satan is usually with a pitchfork and tail but really that’s not how it is. Bekah asked if Satan wants the catholic or pentecostal; is it pentecostal since it is more like what he was used to? (or something along those lines)
    This is what I gathered from what everyone was saying:
    –> God- holy ghost, real, life, good, alive
    –> Satan- holy ghost {dormant}, ceremonies (water baptism, communion, feet washing), like home to him but [in such things] he has control
    –> Man- self willed, crazy, uncontrolled
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    Yes, that is right, except that Satan has never had the holy ghost. The holy ghost is God’s life, and only the Son had that. What he was good at is maintaining perfectly proper form.
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    Is this in the book somewhere?
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    Is what in the book? The issue of proper form instead of real life? Yes, there is a whole chapter coming up about that, chapter nine.
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    I feel like it would help people understand who Satan really is, and his point of view of things. If they get that image out of their head it would help move forward; it could make it easier to understand. They need to keep the holy ghost alive! If not, by going to the church, that is where Satan gets his foot in and the “dormancy” begins. I remember it being said about the image people have of Satan, but in tonight’s reading, I feel like it was very simple, black and white, of how it really is. That may already be in the book, but again, tonight it was just really clear. Maybe it’s just me understanding it better. But, the way it was said tonight made more sense!

    Thanks,
    Danielle
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    Thank you for the questions, Danielle. It makes me glad to hear when something is easy to understand. The truth is always like that. Please pray that I can get the truth out there, as simple and good as it always is!

    Pastor John

  • Ecclesiastes

    Hi Pastor John,

    I am thankful Jesus let me love what you were saying Saturday night to us as a body, and “The Temptation” was beyond wonderful.  Since our translation session on Friday, after doing the verse in Ecclesiastes 12:13for the Father and Son book, I have been feasting on whole book of Ecclesiastes.  It goes hand in hand with what you were telling usSaturday night.  I love God’s wisdom.  I feel so blessed to be allowed to hear with my heart.  Thank you for watching over us. 

    Bess

  • Boy Scouts ruined (from Brad)

    Hi Pastor John,

    I had just written a letter to the local BSA branch executive, 2 weeks ago, and he replied the day after the decision, claiming victory.  I had written to the wrong man.  You see, he was a hypocrite.  The organization was killed from within, by liberal men who condoned the lies from the homosexual pressure groups.

    If you can stomach this article, it’s very good.  And read some of the comments afterwards.

     http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2013/05/r-i-p-boy-scouts-of-america/

    Brad
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    Hi Brad.
     
    This is what i posted at the site you sent me:
     
    After carefully studying the issue from a purely scriptural standpoint, I can see no possibility of homosexuality being anything but an abomination to the one who created us. The Bible never varies from that clear position. What is surprising, though, is how Paul describes it in his letter to the Roman believers. He describes homosexuality as more than sin; he describes it as a curse that comes on unthankful people who have turned away from the truth. Read this level-headed article for the details on what the Bible says about Homosexuality.
    jdc

  • your response

    Pastor John,

    I read your response to the young man who wanted to know where he could find a place to worship like we have. Wonderful response.

    Tonight, Song and I sat down together and read more of Chapter 6 of your Father and Son book, mostly the part on Satan and his likeness to Haman, etc. We wanted to get still and be fed, it’s been hectic here. So it was good to sit down and read together for a while.

    John, it is such good food we have, just so good. The feelings it left us with were so edifying. I thought of your reply to the young man. It would do him more good to sit down with his family and eat unadulterated spiritual food like we did this evening, than it would for him to go to 1000 services at 1000 “whore-houses” in Christianity, looking for something to touch his heart. God’s people need to know that. If they would just get still, and eat that which God has supplied (the truth that He has given you for us), it would do more good than they could ever imagine.

    I am so thankful for my family in Jesus, John. I would not want to sit down all the time and read with just Song and I when we have so many people nearby (that’s another miracle!)…. but I did learn that it does one good to do so, and that young man would be encouraged if he would trust God to know that two or three with truth, is enough and far better than the multitudes with empty promises.

    Gary

  • Where is the right church?

    Dear Gary,

    Thank you for your email and the mp3, and the lyrics. I’m sorry that I took so long to reply.

    Would you please ask pastor John if he could recommend a church in Salem and/or Portland (Oregon) areas that is Spirit-filled, speaks in tongues, is on fire, and has SUCH a Sunday school for kids, too? I have went to 16 churches to my disappointment….

    Thank you so much and God bless you and Pastor John

    Regards,
    Ling
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    Hi Ling.

    Thank you for writing.

    I understand your disappointment. What you and many other dear children of God are looking for cannot be found in any church. You will frustrate yourself more and more if you keep looking for it there. Please do not follow the pattern of most who start out sincerely looking for the truth. After failing to find what their hearts are yearning for in a number of churches, they just settle for the “best” one they can find. God does NOT want you to settle for anything less than the way of the Spirit that His Son died for us to have!

    You, and all of God’s people, would do well to have nothing to do with church religion, and gather instead in homes where the anointing of God is in charge. Trust God! Meetings do not have to be big to be holy and good. A few humble souls gathered together in Jesus’ name is absolutely sufficient for all your spiritual needs, as long as you and the others are free to be led by the Spirit.

    Seek God, my friend Ling, not “the right church”. I despise church religion because I have learned that God and His Son despise it. Jesus died for us to have God’s kind of life; church religion was conceived by Satan and instituted by wicked men in order to to stifle it. Stay out of church, and stay pure and free.

    God bless you as you learn to do things God’s way, and please let me know of any other questions you may have.

    Pastor John

  • God had to?

    Hey Pastor John,

    I was re-reading the chpt. 6. In the section on ‘No One Knew There Was a Temptation’.

    As I read, a thought popped into my mind.
    Halfway down the second paragraph, you have written, “God could have chosen any of His heavenly servants to tempt Jesus in the wilderness, of course, but as always, He chose the one with the qualifications….etc.

    The thought I had was: He couldn’t have chosen “…any of His heavenly servants…” because Satan was the only one that was qualified to offer Jesus the kingdoms of this world. He was the only one ruling it at that time.

    Would this be a correct thought?

    Kay
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    Hi Kay.

    Thanks for writing.
    I would rather say that God could have done anything, whatever He wanted to do, rather than say He was forced to do something a certain way. I understand your logic. I cannot see anything wrong with it, but God is as far beyond our logic as He is beyond our kind of righteousness, and knowing that, I have a hard time using the phrase “God had to do”.

    Pastor John

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    John,

    I have been reading over the new ch 6 and just got through p 15. I had to stop and just try to take in just how impossible it was for anyone at that time to take in anything God was doing, even His own people!

    He was putting his own son to death, going so far beyond the law, and what anyone could think. It was altogether impossible for them, because God had strictly forbidden his people from such thing in the law. What a good kind of feeling, hope, faith it makes me feel inside about the love of God for his Son and us. It feels good!

    And as for ch. 5 I have been chewing on it like a cow chewing it’s cud. I read a page, chew the cud, read another page, chew the cud some more. I love it.

    Thank you John for being there for Jesus to talk to.

    Jimmy

  • Chapter 6 – Section II (Father & Son book)

    Hi Pastor John,

    We got together this morning with Damien and Kay. We read Section Two of Chapter 6. It was really good. I know we have been reading these chapters for a while now, but Jacob started asking questions about baby Jesus and him (the baby) being the son of God. I think it was the first time he was really getting what we have been saying. It was something to watch him trying to take it in! I was watching him and thinking, “He has never been anywhere but here.” He has never even been to a church, but to see him struggle with wrong ideas already in there was something. It was very sweet watching him learn this. I had this thought: “Just because our children are sitting in a chair in these meetings does not mean they understand what they are a part of. After everyone was gone, I was doing dishes and just thanking Jesus to be able to help him understand. The spirit spoke back saying, “It’s because you were doing your part!” Our part is taking the time to sit down and read with them and include them. It was very sweet!!

    Jammie

  • nobody had it right…bu​t God

    Bro. John:

    I have nothing to add to what you have written here, but I just wanted to share with you some feelings while I was reading this section.

    When I got to the ending, “Those like Satan, who hated Jesus but wanted him to be king, and those like Peter, who loved Jesus and wanted him to be king, would have done as much damage as the priests and elders would have done if they had been able to kill Jesus and keep him dead.”, I just had to sit there and let that one thought roll over and over in my heart. It struck me as terrifying that one may think they are doing right when it can be as wrong as can be without the Spirit of God leading. As you said here, Satan and Peter, one motivated by hate, the other by love, but both of their desires not according to the will of God. This thought made me realize how much we poor humans need the holy Ghost. How very valuable is the Spirit of God guiding us everyday in our lives so that we please Him who made us!

    I remember you telling us in a message a while back that if there was anyone doing the will of God on the day Jesus died, it was the ones who crucified him. That was a new thought to me, a forward thought from God. Who was doing the will of God on that day? The ones who appeared to be doing what was right or the ones doing the will of God, who appeared to be doing wrong?

    I am just overwhelmed with what we are receiving from God. I know it is not just for us. The Lord reminded me of the verse in Romans 11:1-5

    “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
    God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
    Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
    But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
    Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.”

    For these hearts, God is still seeking. There is still so much hope and love in Jesus. This kind of love just makes the heart weep and at the same time overflow with joy . . . . and want to kiss the Son. 🙂

    Praying God will open up the storehouse for you (and us), John, to get this to His people.

    Sandy 🙂
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    That was a remarkable thought about Satan and Peter, Sandy, but it was not quite perfect. I had to re-write it as follows:

    “If they had had their way, Satan and Peter, who wanted Jesus to be king of the world, would have done as much damage to the work of God as Satan and Israel’s elders would have done if they had been able to kill Jesus and keep him dead.”

    At different times, Satan was on both sides of that issue. And either way he had it, if he had accomplished what he wanted, it would have been bad.

    jdc

  • Chapter 6, Section 1 (Father & Son book)

    Bro. John:

    I remember when I first started seeking the holy Ghost and reading my bible, a verse in Genesis 26 jumped out at me: “And God said, Let usmake man in our image, after our likeness: . . . .” I gave you a call that night and asked you to help me understand who the “our” meant. I had always thought, as many still do today, that God alone was in heaven (except for the other heavenly creatures) and that Jesus did not come until his birth through Mary. It was that verse that caused my heart to realize that God was not there alone, but sharing His heart with someone very dear to him – His Son!

    Chapter 6, Section 1 is so full of sweet feelings, the knowledge and understanding of God that can only be revealed by Him to us. It is truly amazing to take into our hearts what He has shown us thus far.

    I love the explanation you wrote here.

    They did not understand that when Mary’s son and God’s Son became one, that one new man shared everything that made up the two, so that it can truthfully be said that the Son of God came from Nazareth and that Jesus came from heaven. Paul was not wrong to say that God’s Son was “born of a woman, born under the law” (Gal. 4:4), and the author of Hebrews was not wrong to say that when the Son came from heaven, a man’s body was already prepared for him (Heb. 10:5, quoting Psalm 40)”

    I had to read it several times to grasp the fullness of it, but what a revelation. It is us! An old past and a new past in one. We live in these earthly temples created for us by God, but the new man is in the holy Ghost, and if we are led by His Spirit, we will dwell with the Father and the Son one day. What you wrote helps me to understand more fully what Jesus told me about my earthly parents: “You are not a product of that union anymore.” I am the biological daughter of Fred and Marguerite from New Bern, NC, but oh, how sweet, that I am the daughter of my Father in heaven. His traits live in me now – a child of the King!

    We are truly blessed to be receiving such sweet manna from heaven. I want these holy thoughts to settle deep within my heart and soul so as Solomon said about the law:

    When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.”

    The love of the world pales to the love that is in the heart of God. Whew!

    Sandy 🙂

  • F&S

    Pastor John,

    The feelings and thoughts that have been coming since reading these chapters in the Father and Son book!!! I was driving home today listening to the Father and the Son music cd. There’s a part in the first song about the Son being revealed through the passing of time! All these thoughts and feelings just started flooding me, on the inside. I don’t even have words for all I was feeling 🙂 It was like looking behind a curtain, and you could understand what you saw there, but when the curtain was closed you are left with just bits and pieces!! I started praying, “Please, Lord, I want to know!”

    Then the Spirit said, “I am still hidden to some.”

    John, the feelings of – do I really know how big this is, to know the things? We do know! Or to hear the Spirit speak to us! To have the Son revile himself to us!! IT’S BIG!! It’s like looking behind that curtain. We know him when we see him, but when he shuts the curtain, we just see bits and pieces. I can’t get it all out!!!

    Love you guys and hope you are getting a lot done.

    Jammie

    PS. I did have a question the other night when reading chapter 6. I have never thought this before and even thought why have I never asked this. Anyway, how come we never hear anything about Mary’s husband, Joseph? It’s always about Mary. Did he die young? I will look this up, but just struck me the other night.

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    Hi Jammie.

    Yes, it is wonderful to have fellowship with the Father and the Son! It is very humbling and sweet. I am so happy you are being blessed by the knowledge God has given to us, and to all who will believe.

    As for Joseph, there is nothing for you to look up. He just disappears from the biblical record. Let’s hold on to the love and righteousness of God so that we can get to meet Joseph one day and ask him what happened!

    Pastor John

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