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Hi Pastor John,

For about 3 weeks now I have been listening to Darren’s sampler cd 3 and I can’t seem to get past tract # 3 “Leave the world behind” I have played that song over and over and over, every time I get into the truck. I love how it starts out:
 
“I am not that hard, and I have come so low.”   God is not a hard God!  He is very meek and lowly, and He has made a way for us.  “Speaking to your hearts as you come and go.”   God is always there to guide us and help us and encourage us as we come and go, if we are listening.
 
“My love blows like the wind, as it whispers in your ear…”  How sweet and true that is!  His love is always around us.  If we are looking, his whole creation is screaming out with the love of God.

“Can you hear me say, Oh I want you here?”  If we have been filled with the holy ghost and this truth, that is what we are hearing ” Oh I want you here!”
 
“For I know you feel it tugging, but the world is so unkind.
It will please you for a moment, but then leave you for behind.”  John, everybody wants to be happy.  That is why they do what they do; they think it will make them happy.  Oh, but only “for a moment” will the world make anyone happy.
 
I love this next line:
“The life I have for you is better, the life I give to you.
And you can go much further, but that’s all up to you.”

Wow, the question is, what do we really want?  It’s all here in the spirit, and in the life God has given to us, and we can go as far as we want.  He will take us there, but that is all up to us.  What do we want?  In the end, we all are going to get what we really want.  If we want the things of this world, we can have them, but is will only last for a moment, “then leave us far behind.”
 
“He recreated our hearts, the day we were born.  But if there is unbelief that heart gets torn.
The reason that you live, is just to do my will, so let go of this world and let your heart be still.
Love just what I love and hate what I abhor.  Feel just what I feel, and let me love you more.
Say what I would say and do what I would do, leave the world behind and let your heart be true.”
 
John, this song has be ringing through every fiber in my body, telling me how true and simple serving God really is — if that is what you really want to do.  How hard it is to try and serve Him half-hearted.  Everyone who does that is miserable
 
Stuart

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Hi Stuart.

The lyrics of Darren’s songs are powerful.  Sometimes, the music he writes is so lovely that we miss the words, but when we take the time to hear what the Lord is saying through Darren, it can take your breath away.

jdc

Hey everybody!

There was too much to text last night about the speech given by the Polish Holocaust survivor.  She simply started telling her story of how she grew up as a little girl, and then the changes that took place as the war progressed. There were several things that stood out to me from her talk.

1) How she was forced to learn the German language in school at a very young age.  They wouldn’t speak any other language.  And that Jesus did that to keep her alive.  It was her value, even as a very young girl, during the war.

2) That the Holocaust didn’t happen 1500 years ago, or even 400.  This woman is still alive.  Even though she is old – it happened in our lifetime.

3) She said that at the death camp where she finally ended up, people were nailed to crosses. Whew!  I was thinking of Jesus and what he suffered. And I’m not sure if she was actually put on a cross for awhile, or just threatened with it, because she would lie when translating for the Germans who were in charge of the camp.

4) Her love for America.  Her love of life and liberty.  She described in detail the Americans who took care of her in a hospital when she was taken out of the death camp.  The heart of her message was for people to love America,  and value liberty and life.

When she got to the part where she was describing the kindness of the nurses and soldiers who took care of her in the hospital, I couldn’t help but think of all her words as being to us, God’s people.  Just like the verses from Ezekiel 16, God has taken us out of our own blood, he’s loved us, and fed us.  I feel like her words, her passion, in helping people realize the great value of liberty in this country, was for us!  She was talking about America, but I was feeling – us, the place where God has brought us.  For us to value the great liberty and life we have been given in the Spirit; it is no small thing.  God has given us a precious gift, worthy of our love and our lives.  I pray that God will grant us a part in feeding, nurturing, and loving our precious family as they are liberated from that awful prison that holds them.

Donna

Hey,

The kids, especially Hannah, will often sing, “I cry worthy, the lamb of God.”  🙂  She was doing that this morning, and I started singing it with her.  Those feelings flooded me again, like that night at the prayer meeting, and I started crying while I sang.  Hope held my hand and then laid her head on me.  When we were through singing, Hope looked at me and said, “Are we having a meeting?”  I said, “I think so, Baby.”   🙂

It was very sweet.  We just watched the first few minutes of the Revelation class again, with Bro. Gary singing “you can’t do it alone.”  I was crying again! 🙂  That would make a good youtube video.  You can feel the spirit in the room during the song.

Thank you for being there.  I don’t want to do it alone.

Love,
Cris

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Hi Cris,

Little scenes at home such as you experienced with Hope are worth more than all the church religion of earth put together.  Only the blind don’t realize their value.  At home is where children do, or do not, learn love the feelings of God and to trust in Jesus.

Good job!

You are not alone.

jdc

Dear John,

I love the feeling of awe I felt Saturday night and Sunday morning (and still now) as you were teaching and revealing to us what God had shown you. All the hours you invested into our hearts teaching us those wonderful stories of God’s people from Old Testament times really brought out how God sees Christianity/Babylon.

We have all heard how the things in old time were for our learning and God really demonstrated that to us through Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joshua and others.  What God tried to get through to Israel is still the same for us: serving and worshiping God any other way than the way He requires is death.  Not worshiping in Spirit and truth is death.  The way Israel worshiped God affected their souls and their relationship with God.  The same is true for us today.  God is opening our eyes to see that Christianity’s (Xty) perverted ways of worship has a death sentence with it.  I feel very loved to have been able to be there to hear with my ears and my heart this weekend.  I pray I never forget the mercy God has shown to us to lead us out of Xty.  And I have had put into my heart a greater compassion on my brothers and sisters who are still inside Xty.  I also understand more fully why God says we should worship Him with fear and trembling.

Thank you for teaching the truth to us and for your love for God and us.

Bess

Hi John,

Thanks again for the great classes this weekend from Revelation. 
 
There were a few standout things – the first was about saying, “I didn’t mean to do that” or “I didn’t know I did that”, etc.  As you said, it’s merely changing the subject.  That will stick with me a lifetime,  I believe.  If I do something that is not right, it’s because that thing was in my heart.  I have a feeling God will give me the opportunities.  I want own up to it and get it right with God, and move ON with God – praying that such a desire is in my heart.  My actions will tell.  That was great. 
 
Another thing was what you said about intimacy/communion with God being a place of “cleansing”.  That was an invitation to go/stay there!
 
And thirdly, was about not blaming anybody for anything. It’s not about them –  It’s about God.  God is behind everything that comes our way.  EVERYTHING.
 
These three things really went deep for me this weekend.
 
BUT… I have to say that in addition to these things –  among the top highlights for me was you telling about the story of Ahithophel and David.  I love it when those stories come to life.   I get a great feeling of gratitude “tickle” me when you take us to those places, and it gets so understandable and real life.  We should be very, very grateful to have access to solid food and anointed teaching…. it’s so rare and valuable.  I feel very blessed to be under and among the people He has joined me to.  I look forward to the final episode!
 
Gary

Good morning!
 
I loved the things we learned this weekend in the Revelation study!  They were wonderful to my soul.  I loved learning about who Babylon really is. Wow.  That feels big.  Just like in the Old Testament, it is God’s chosen people who were unfaithful.  It’s not just a “them” – it is part of us.  How much more do I hurt for our brothers and sisters inside that unclean thing!
 
I also loved the lesson we were taught about not blaming anyone or anything else for our own error.  Glory to God!  He is so good.  I thank God for giving me the opportunity to learn.  I need to learn, and I love it when God gives me lessons.  That is an exciting life!  And I am especially thankful to God for the ones whom He choses to help me with my lessons.  🙂  Wow, this is great.  When you really get the gold out of it, you wouldn’t trade anything in the world for that lesson God gave you.
 
Thank you for the Revelation lessons this weekend.  I am still chewing on them this morning.

Donna

Hi John,

I was reading in Colossian 1:18 when I had a question about the Son of God being the “firstborn from the dead”.  I remembered before Jesus died that Elijah had raised from the dead the son of the widow woman the Lord had sent him to dwell with and that Jesus had raised Lazareth from the dead. After this thought I asked you what the difference was in being raised from the dead and being the firstborn from the dead. Without any hesitaton you looked at me and said the difference was that the Widow’s son and Lazareth had to die again.
 
When I read this chapter the first time I had really good feelings while reading it.  After talking with you, I told Doris about you telling me about the difference between being raised from the dead and being the firstborn from the dead and the good feelings I had from reading in Colossians. Then she wanted us to read it together. As she was reading I was following along in another translation. When we read Col 1:18 it said “he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he might become the one who is first in all things”. It was the first time I had thought about the Father wanting his Son to be first in all things.
 
I thought about a few things the Son was first in and went on doing something else. During the next week I started having thoughts pop up while driving down the road, in the shower, at work, etc about different times the Son was first. I was having so many thoughts I couldn’t remember them all so I started writing them down on a scratch pad at work. Before I could write them all down I started forgetting some of the thoughts so I carried the scratch pad in my pocket and eventually filled up both sides of the paper. The list grew to where I felt I needed to type it out. Below are the “firsts” that the Lord gave me.
 
The Son of God is the:
First creation of God
First born of every creature
First created in image of God
First Son of God
First to see God
First to feel the love of God
First to love God
First to feel the joy of God
First to feel the peace of God
First to please God
First to be God’s daily delight
First to love righteousness
First to hate evil
First to hate lawlessness
First to love government
First to love judgment
First to create after the Father
First to love us
 
First and only one Holy enough to be made a sacrifice
First begotten son of God
First to exist in God’s form to divest himself and be made in likeness of man
First to receive holy Ghost on earth
First to overcome the sins of the world
 
First to die for the sins of man
First to go to Hades and return
First born from the dead
First to enter through the veil
First to ascend into heaven and offer himself as a sacrifice to God
First to become high priest forever with a priest hood that is unchangeable
First to receive a glorified body
First to be consecrated forever more
First to be given a name above all names
First to sit down at the Father’s right hand
First to offer forgiveness of sins to fallen man
First to offer eternal salvation to fallen man
First to offer man the opportunity to be one with the Father and him
First king to be on the throne forever
First to be appointed heir of all things
First and only one to have all things put in subjection under his feet
First to have children from a spiritual seed
First and only one able to open the scroll with the 7 seals
 
The past week has really been good with the Lord giving me all these wonderful thoughts about the Son being first. During this time the Lord also helped me find the scripture “who, existing in God’s form, did not consider equality with God as a prize to be seized upon; instead, he divested himself, assuming the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men”.  I could not remember how this scripture read and I couldn’t find it in the Bible.  I remembered it was in the book you are writing about the Father and Son, but I didn’t know where to look. When I opened the Father and Son book I had a paper clip at the last place I had read.  I don’t know why but I started looking for the scripture where the paperclip was.  God is good!  He knew I didn’t have a clue where the scripture was, and I turned right to the page with this scripture.
 
I have enjoyed this time thinking about the Son being first in all things. 
 
Randell

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Allan Svensson, Sweden
http://www.PastorJohnsHouse.com

The baptism by the Holy Spirit belongs to the fundamentals of God’s gospel. This is the first experience for people when they receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. Jesus baptizes them with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives them the new life in Christ, and they become new creations in Christ. 2 Cor. 5:17. When you are born again, you are born of the Spirit. John 3:6-8.

In the Pentecostal churches they have not preached the truth of the baptism by the Holy Spirit. They have learnt only a little part of this biblical truth, and the little they have learnt, they have turned back to front.In the Assembly of God, the Body of Christ, we are all baptized by one Spirit into one body, but not all have the gift to speaking with tongues. 1 Cor. 12:12-31. People who are not baptized by the Holy Spirit cannot belong to the Assembly of God. Therefore, the baptism by the Holy Spirit must take the place when we become saved. By the new birth we are born into God’s family, the Assembly of God.

The Pentecostal preachers have turned this back to front. They say that only those who can speak with tongues are baptized by the Holy Spirit, and that the gift to speaking with tongues is the only safe sign that someone is baptized by the Holy Spirit. This is a dangerous denying of a work that Jesus and the Holy Spirit have done, and legalization of false speaking with tongues. The gift to speaking with tongues is the gift, which is easiest to falsify. Anyone can learn something of a foreign language and rattle off it in a meeting, so that people believe that it is speaking with tongues.

They have preached that the baptism with the Holy Spirit is only for those who are born again. Yet, on the day of Pentecost the apostle Peter promised people, which were not born again, that they would get the Holy Spirit as a gift when they did repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Consider, that Peter promised the Holy Spirit to people who had not been born again! And when they received the Holy Spirit, what happened then? Well, then they got the new life in Christ and became born again! Observe. The Holy Spirit himself is the gift, not only the experience of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. Gal. 3:14. 1 Thess. 4:8. The Holy Spirit gives us the new life in Christ so that we become born again.

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Dear Allan,

Thank you for taking the time to write concerning the baptism of the holy Ghost.

If speaking in tongues was merely “a gift” (meaning one among many gifts), there may be some merit to your position of not needing it to be part of the body of Christ.  But Paul never described speaking in tongues as “A gift”.  Nor do the scriptures indicate that one can be baptized with the Spirit withOUT speaking in tongues.  We must weigh ALL the evidence.

The gift (which you are saying that only “some” have) is that of “divers tongues”.  That gift is an added measure of tongues for edification among those who already SPEAK in tongues (just as the gift of faith is an added measure of faith unto those who already have faith.)

Speaking in tongues is far more than “a” gift – it is the God-ordained sign of this New Covenant (Isa 28:11-12, 1 Cor.14:20-21).  To say that we don’t need the sign of the new covenant (speaking in tongues), would be the equivalent of saying that during the old testament time, one did not need the sign of the old covenant (circumcision).  That “sign” was so important (to God and man), we are told if one did NOT have circumcision, they were NOT a part of the Israel of God (from GOD’S perspective).  It is no different in the new.

You seem like a studious man, and I have attached our full study guide on this issue.  If you read it carefully and prayerfully, you will find why your position is not the correct one after the evidence is weighed.  I hope you will be a wise man like the great biblical man in the book of Acts, Appollos.  When he was shown a more perfect way by Aquilla and Prescilla, he was quick to recognize it, and change his course.  His heart was ready.

Blessings,
Gary Savelli
www.isaiah58.com
www.pastorjohnshouse.com