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  • Hello from Raad

    Hi Pastor John,

    I have just found out about the truth from knowing Jenny. I’ve been looking for it for the past 15 years. I was brought up in a Catholic church, but by the age of 26 I realised the Catholic church is not the truth of God. So, I started searching somewhere else for the truth. I was then taught the “get saved” doctrine. Straight away, I thought “oh, this is too good to be true”. Then a friend of mine was attending an “Assemblies of God” church. He told me you are not born again until you are baptised by the holy ghost, and you speak in tongues. So for about a year and 2 months, I prayed and fasted to God for that to happen. One day I was laying in my room and I felt the holy ghost come over me in power from top to bottom, and I started to speak in tongues. I was really very excited about what had happened, but I just didn’t know where God was working. I started attending the Worldwide Church of God and their teaching was that Christianity was not the truth. I quite liked what they were teaching because I could see there was a lot of truth in what they said. But they did not believe in the baptism of the holy ghost, and speaking tongues. Altogether, I wasn’t fully convinced they were teaching the full truth of God. After some time I just left the church and I started looking for the truth and praying about it. Then I began attending the Anglican church for a while but I well knew that was not the truth – I only attended because of my ex-wife. After that I didn’t attend any more churches – I was just praying for God to lead me to the truth. Then a year and half later, after working with Jenny for 6 months – in the last week or so of my work there – we began talking about religion, which we’d never talked about before. She started telling me about your teaching. I was completely blown away by it! I asked her for some more material, which she gave me. By reading the first tract, I knew straight this is where God is working – this is the truth! Since then I’ve been listening to all the CD’s, and reading tracts, blogs, and the TFT’s, and watching Livestream.

    Livestream is just amazing! You can tell you have been led by Jesus Christ because you don’t know what is going to happen next. There is no routine or format, and it’s very exciting.

    I was really dying spiritually; maybe I was on my last breath, until God led me to talk to Jenny. I feel like I’m floating on clouds since God did all this. I’ve never been so happy! I’m so happy to be taught good spiritual food.

    I have many questions but so far I’ve been getting answers from all the CD’s I’ve heard. I hope it would be okay if I have questions I can’t find answers too if I could ask you.

    I’d like to come and visit in the future, if it would be okay with you.

    Thank you very much for sticking to the truth, and I’m also thankful for your father for not wavering from the truth before he passed.

    May God bless you and your family.

    Raad M.

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    Greetings, Brother Raad!

    Yours is a wonderful testimony that the world (including Christianity) did not give you and that the world (including Christianity) can never take away. You should be very thankful for that. I thank you for sending it.

    Please feel free to write with any questions you might have, and if you ever can do so, we here would all love to have you visit us so that we can hear your testimony in person!

    Pastor John

  • Gary – Things that are Priceless

    Hi John,

    Hey, you missed it after you left! Song and I had the best time while getting my hair cut.

    We started talking about money, and how some things in life are priceless to us, and they are worth all the money we have ever given, or ever WILL give. We got very HAPPY!

    In fact, if we measure up our tithes and offerings compared to what you have given or done for our lives, well, by far we have gotten the better end of the bargain.

    Here are some of the things we thought were “priceless”:

    – The people we are surrounded by who love truth.
    – The things we have heard and learned from you.
    – The love we have received from you, and others joined with you.
    – Being able to feel and watch the anointing of God, the one that breaks yokes.
    – Feeling God’s presence.
    – Watching God’s power.
    – Watching and feeling you love the children (that was Song’s of course!)
    – The feelings of the Spirit (learning to know them).
    – Advice and help in time of need, that has changed our lives.
    – The gatherings of the saints.
    – Having the same feelings as others in the Lord.
    – Song and I dancing in the Spirit together.

    I am sure there are hundreds more of “priceless” treasures that have come to us through you and your work. woo hoo!!

    It is an honor for us to have you take our tithes and offerings John. Some things are priceless.

    Gary

  • 1 Peter and Baptism

    John,

    I have a couple questions/comments about some recent Bible study:

    In 1Peter 3:20, it (KJV) says, “…Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.” I understand that, in the next verse, “the like figure” is referring to the ark. But why does the KJV say “by water” instead of “through water” or “through the water” like other translations do? “By water” makes it sound like it was the water that saved them, and then the “like figure” would be referring to water baptism.

    I bring this up because in the last few days’ TFT’s, I’ve noticed the series on errors in the KJV. Would this also be an intentional mistranslation in the KJV, to make it seem as though water baptism is the baptism we need (or at least that we need water baptism in addition to, or in order to receive, Spirit baptism)?

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    Some may be shocked at your question, Vince, but it is not unreasonable for you to wonder if the KJV translators were carefully manipulating a verse to promote their Christian baptism. The same translators imposed the word “Easter” into the book of Acts to promote their holy day agenda, and they butchered the translation of Philippians 2:6 in order to promote their Trinitarian doctrine. Such intentional bending of the scriptures may be the case here, as well, but it is less obvious if that is the case. The truth, as you say, is that the ark, not the water, saved Noah and his family, and Peter’s words make that abundantly clear. A good translation would be “and they were rescued through the water”. Why anyone would not translate the verse that way would be difficult to say.

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    Also, when I read verse 21, I was curious to learn what Christian commentaries said. It seems obvious to me that this verse is simply a clarification by Peter that water baptism is NOT the baptism that matters. It seems that this verse is used by some Christians to show that Spirit baptism happens concurrently with water baptism. The RSV translation is the one that seemed to be referred to often, but this translation appears to have it backwards:

    RSV: “Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

    KJV: “The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

    Am I reading this difference correctly? RSV is saying that baptism is an appeal to God for a clear conscience. KJV [correctly] says that baptism is the answer from God in response to our clear conscience [repentance].

    Thank you,

    Vince

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    Yes, you are sensing the RSV translators’ attempt to endorse the only baptism which those translators know: the baptism in water known as Christian baptism. That was not what Peter wrote. The KJV translators had this one right.

    jdc

  • Has Anyone Ever Received the Holy Ghost and NOT Gone Into Christianity?

    John,

    I was thinking yesterday and today about this: has anyone ever received the holy Ghost and NOT gone into or ended up in Christianity, in some form? (unless of course, they were conceived in a place like where we are, where God’s simple truth is taught).

    It’s an astonishing accomplishment by Satan, when we think of the multitudes that have received Jesus’ holy Spirit baptism, but all of us end up in that religion, in one form or another – not even understanding why we really go there. Why do God’s people turn to it? It’s such a “force” in this life….

    Makes one realize how complete Satan’s deception really is: “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world“. And to think that God has done it, and made the truth about it invisible — to most. But we are free! That’s worth praising GOD for, as you were saying Wednesday night.

    One day, it will be seen.

    Gary

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    Hi Gary.

    Yes, God was right. The whole world. Even non-Christians think that everyone on earth who wants to serve Jesus must join that thing called Christianity. What a blessing, that God has un-deceived us! Praise His holy name!

    jdc

  • His Footstool

    http://goingtojesus.com/site/php/books.php?tname=light:1

    Dad,

    As I was asking last night, if it is strictly the case that Jesus won’t return until his enemies are made his footstool, then what do the3se verses mean? Here’s the secton of your book, Spiritual Light, to which I was referring. I’ve bolded a part.

    ONE ASCENSION, NO RETURN

    The book of Hebrews adds this instructive note to our study:

    “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth [waiting] till his enemies be made his footstool.” (Heb. 10:12-13)

    The fact that Jesus sat down at God’s right hand after offering himself as our atoning sacrifice is important, for it means (1) that he did not (as many teach) return to earth after he offered himself to God, and (2) that he will not return to earth “until his enemies be made his footstool.” Of course, in Spirit, both Jesus and the Father returned at Pentecost (Jn. 14:16, 20, 23). But as for Jesus’ personal presence, let it suffice to remind the reader that we are looking for his second coming, not his third or fourth. After his first visit, he sat down.

    John D.

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    Thanks for the question. It’s a good one.

    If you pay close attention, in the Bible, especially in the prophets, you will notice places where God speaks as if something is done before it happens. He might say, “I have ended your kingdom!”, in spite of the fact that, up to that moment, the kingdom is doing fine. I think that is what is going on here. Jesus will remain at the Father’s right hand until the Father says, “OK. I have made your enemies your foot stool.” And then He will send the Son to earth to conquer and to reign.

    jdc

  • Seven Wicked Spirits

    John,

    I was sitting here, after the meeting, thinking about how good God has been good to me. I thought about what I said tonight – how I was in Christianity, and came to the place of sitting at home and I said, “God there has to be more than this, someone has to have truth.” God had an answer to my heart’s cry.

    And I thought about what you said tonight – how that all of us have said at one time, “God there has to be more to life than this” and God rescued us – calling us unto Himself and giving us His Spirit.

    I thought about how I had that same cry twice. The first time, I considered that there had to be more to life than what I had – that life of sin. And God gave me the holy Ghost. And I thought about how I was converted, but stuck in Christianity, and said again, “God, there has to be more than THIS.” (the religion I was in).

    After I had that thought, the Spirit said to me, “if you didn’t, you’d be like the man with seven spirits”. I remembered that story, and looked it up in Matthew and Luke:

    Mat 12:43: When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
    Mat 12:44: Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
    Mat 12:45: Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

    Luk 11:24: When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
    Luk 11:25: And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
    Luk 11:26: Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.”

    When the unclean spirit goes out of us (when we get the holy Ghost), later there are other spirits that come back with it, and find us all fixed up – but the ones that return are more wicked. The come in and dwell in the clean temple of God. And if we are stuck in Christianity, really, that state IS worse than the first. It’s a blessing to get that “second cry” for something more.

    I’m not sure that is the exact context of Jesus’ story in total, but if you look at it that way, it is the case.

    Gary

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    From what I have seen, Gary, that children of God who receive the holy ghost and then turn from the path of true holiness to devote themselves to the religious system called Christianity are, it seems, taken over by “seven spirits” worse than the spirits that work among unconverted sinners. Their devotion to that religious system certainly makes it far more difficult for Jesus to reach them than it was when they were just living as sinners in the world.

    jdc

  • Jacob C.

    Pastor John,

    I just had to write to tell on God!! I am going to try to keep this short. A few months ago some folks here decided to do the OT class. Well, Paul and I thought it would be good for Jacob. And boy it has!! Sunday, Paul wasn’t feeling well, so I took Jacob. It was so sweet to see him. I know there are some things in the OT class that he doesn’t understand, but it was very sweet to watch him. It was never a thought in his mind to stay home. He just wanted to know who was going to take him.

    Well, today after school I sent him in the grocery to grab a few things. A little while later this little old man on oxygen came out of the store. He was walking very slow across the street. A young lady was waiting for him to cross but you could tell by her body language she wanted him to move faster. I thought to myself, “God, I hope Jacob would be more compassionate.” About that time, Jacob came out of the store. The first thing he did was walk over to car window. He said, Mama, I hope you don’t mind, but there was an old man in there on oxygen. And he didn’t have enough money, so I gave him my three dollars. He gave me my change back.”

    I just sat there thinking about what I just said to God! Jacob said the woman checking them out told him that was a very kind thing to do! As I was driving home I had this thought: “They are who they really are, when you’re not around.” And we are who we really are when you [Pastor John] are not around!! I just had to tell on God and Jacob.

    Jammie.

    P.S. The money Jacob gave that man was his own!!

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    Beautiful stories, Jammie. Thanks for sending that to me!

    jdc

  • The Yoke

    John,

    🙂

    In listening to the Sermon this morning I have often pondered when this scripture is quoted Ac 15:10.

    Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”

    When this was spoken was it because things which were not of the Law were mixed in even for the disciples? My thinking is God wouldn’t have given a Law which couldn’t be followed.

    What is missing about how I am thinking about this?
    The thought about the new covenant doesn’t clear it up for me completely, why would a new covenant needed if the first was perfect. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

    Wendell

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    Hi Wendell

    I think I understand what you are asking. If, for example, John the Baptist’s parents “walked before the Lord blameless, in all the statutes and commandments of the Lord”, then how could Peter call the law of Moses a yoke that the Jews were unable to bear? This is an interesting question, and one that has entered my mind often. I have an idea as to where the answer lies, so I will take a shot at it.

    Paul pointed out that the law could not bring anyone to perfection, even though it was a holy and good law. To keep the details of the law was possible, but the point is that even at that, we fell short of the righteousness of God. Because of our sinful nature, it often happened that those who kept the law assiduously fell victim to pride against those who did not keep the law so well. In that case, as Paul explained in Romans 7, what was good (the law) actually worked against us because the better we kept it, the more ungodly we became (on the inside).

    I think the requirement on the Jews to keep the law in spite of the law’s inadequacy was the burden, the “yoke”, to which Peter was referring. As holy and good as the law was, it still could not deliver us from our sinful nature, and in some cases, because of our proud spirits, keeping keeping the law even made us less like God than we were before.

    jdc

  • Psalm 119

    Hi Pastor John,

    I really enjoyed doing the exercise with Psalm 119, for the Old Testament class. The one where you filled out the paper and you count how many times the words are use as synonyms for the law, such as “testimony”, “statutes”, “word”, “way”, etc. It was really good to slow down and put myself in David’s spot as I read the verses, and ask myself a question, “Do I feel about God’s law as David did — with joy, happiness, and peace?”

    There were only 2 or 3 verses that didn’t use one of those words as a word of the law in them. Every time David spoke in a different verse, he used one of those variations.

    I remember about 12 years ago, I was at a seminar for work in Richmond, VA, and preparing for a presentation the next day. I heard all of my coworkers at the lounge from my room, drinking and getting louder by the hour as I practised my presentation the next morning. I went to bed and either had a dream or a vision. I saw “Psalm 119” written on the ceiling. I had never read that Psalm before, since I had received the holy Ghost.

    The next morning, I opened up my bible and briefly read through it. I told myself that when I returned home, I would take the time to read it slowly (I did), but I still fully didn’t understand it until you taught us the OT in 2001. I remember crying for joy (at home) after that particular class, at last with the understanding of Psalm 119, after I filled that exercise out for the first time.

    Those commandments, laws, statutes, ways, words, etc., are now written by the finger of God in our hearts. Wow — I wonder what David would have felt like if those laws had been written in his heart by the holy ghost?

    By the way, I was the only one that received a perfect score on my presentation in Richmond.

    Billy M.

  • Pioneer Broadcast DVDs

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    John,

    We have watched all but a few of The Pentecost Experience DVDs and hope to see all of them in the next few days. What has impressed me so far about all of them is how the simplicity of the gospel is portrayed through you and those being interviewed. The feelings I felt from everyone are genuine sincerity and love for others. Everyone comes across happy about what God has done for their lives.

    Anyone with an honest hunger for God and wanting a change of life would be drawn towards the feelings of these videos. In each interview there is a gentle invitation to seek God and the baptism of the Spirit. It’s obvious everyone is committed to Jesus and each other. There is nothing pushy or aggressive about them.
    I love that.

    Thank you and everyone who worked to put these together. Suzi and I consider these DVDs a real treasure.

    Tom

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