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Week01:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity AnIntroduction Monday

Scripture reading: Genesis 1:28; Revelation 22:35; 1 Corinthians 15:2428.

This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimonyistrue.John21:24 God'sBurden This time we want to share with you about the burden the Lord has given tous,which isrelated with the ministry of Apostle John in his maturity. All of us need to be clear about the matter of the ministry. A ministry is a service according the commission that we have received. It is to fulfill Godseternalplan.WhenwecometotheScriptures, to the entire Bible, we can see that God has a ministry. The ministry of God is to establish His kingdom on this earth. All creation is according to thispurpose(Genesis1:28). Also, we have the Bible, which is Gods speaking. Through Gods speaking we can see how God will fulfill His plan. The goal of Gods plan is to establish the kingdom of God on this earth. The
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completion of this plan is the New Jerusalem; the New Jerusalem is the completion of the kingdom of God(Revelation22:35;1Corinthians15:2428). To complete this plan God needed time. TimeisrelatedtoGodswork.Itisforthepurposeof fulfilling this plan. Regarding time, there are two ages:theOldTestamentageandtheNewTestament age. During the Old Testament age God worked to fulfill His plan, and He is working in the New Testament age. This is the ministry. God gave His ministrytomansothatmancanfulfillGodsplan. This time we want to see all the ministries throughout all the generations that God has used to accomplishHisgoal,fromtheOldTestamentandthe New Testament. We need to understand the Apostle Johnsportionwithinthisvision. Keyword:TofulfillGod'splan. Yourkeyword: Question:WhatisGod'splanonthisearth?

Week01:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity AnIntroduction Tuesday

Scripture reading: Acts2:3436; Hebrews 8: 12; Matthew 28:19; Acts1:8;Acts8:1;Matthew16:19

Now this is the main point of the things we are saying:WehavesuchaHighPriest,whoisseatedat the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,aMinisterofthesanctuaryandofthetrue tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man. Hebrews8:12 TheLordJesus'sMinistry The New Testament is the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is accomplished in four sections. The first section of His ministry is during His incarnation. God became a man and this man was JesusChrist.Hewasaperfectmanandthecomplete God. He fulfilled the first portion of His ministry duringHisincarnation,fromthetimeofhisbirthuntil Hisdeath.Weseethisinthegospels:Mathew,Mark, Luke and John. This is during the Lord's incarnation. After His death He resurrected and initiated the secondportionofhisministry.
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After the Lord's death and resurrection, we have the second portion of His ministry. In the book ofActstheLordbecametheLordandtheChrist(Acts 2:3436).Hewas exalted and God designated Himas Lord and Christ. Now His ministry comes from the right hand of God (Hebrews 8:12). It is through the church.AfterHisresurrection,Hisministryisthrough theSpirittheSpiritofreality.Heisattherighthand of God, and at the same time He is in us. Christ is withinus,ministeringthroughus. DuringthesecondsectionofHisministry,the Lord used His apostles to serve Him by bringing in Gods speaking. During the time of the church in JerusalemundertheleadingoftheApostlePeter,we havetheministryofthe twelveapostles.Inthebook of Acts, from chapter two to chapter eight we see this. In chapter eight persecution came against the churchinJerusalem. The Lord had told his disciples to disciple all the nations, baptizing them and teaching them (Matthew 28:19). They would remain in Jerusalem untilthetimetheywouldreceivetheHolySpirit,and then they would be witnesses from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of theearth(Acts1:8).Thisreferstothepropagationof
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the gospel, from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria whichwereregionsclosesttoJerusalemthentothe Gentile world beyond the borders of Israel. The apostlesreceivedthiscommission. Acts chapter eight presents the propagation of the gospel from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria through persecution. Persecution came against the churchinJerusalem,andthediscipleswerescattered (Acts 8:1). Wherever they went they preached the gospel. We can say that this was the continuation of the ministry. What was the result of the ministry? It was the churches. What is the church? The church is the kingdom of God. The ministry is for the kingdom and the way of the kingdom is the church. The kingdom can come through the church (Matthew 16:19). Keyword:ThechurchistheKingdomofGod Yourkeyword: Question: What is the purpose of God to the Churches?

Week01:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity AnIntroduction Wednesday

Scripture reading: Acts 9:24; 26:16; Acts 10:4548; Acts 11:13, 19;Acts13:13.

AstheyministeredtotheLordandfasted,theHoly Spiritsaid,NowseparatetoMeBarnabasandSaul fortheworktowhichIhavecalledthem.Acts13:2 PaulsMinistry Acts chapter nine presents the calling of the ApostlePaul.Hepersecutedthechurch,buttheLord called him (Acts 9:24; 26:16). Then in chapter ten the gospel reached the Gentiles for the first time. GodusedApostlePeterforthis(Acts10:4548). In chapter eleven, after the gospel reached the Gentiles, the Jews reacted negatively. Their reaction was not positive (Acts 11:13, 19). They did not agree with propagating the gospel to the Gentiles. No! They reacted negatively. However, the Lord prepared a group of people to propagate the gospelamongtheGentiles. Thistimeitwasnotfrom Jerusalem. God chose Antioch to propagate the gospeltotheGentiles(Acts13:13).
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In chapter thirteen we see Paul's ministry taking the lead to propagate the gospel. We do not see the twelve apostles any more. We cannot say that they were not serving, but it was not recorded. We do see Paul's ministry. He took the lead in the matter of the word and the work to propagate the gospelamongtheGentiles. The first stage was the stage of the twelve apostles, and the second stage was the stage of Paulsministry. After the book of Acts we have Paul's epistles, which present his vision and his understanding of the practice of the church at that time.WecanseePaul'svisionandthepracticeofthe church. But at the end of Pauls ministry, the situation of the church was not good, especially the church in Ephesus and in the entire region of Asia. TheresultofPaulsministrydidnotreachthelevelof his vision. He received the vision from the Lord. We cannot say anything against what Paul wrote to us, butwecannotseeaproperpracticeaccordingtothe vision. In his last epistle he said: All those in Asia have turned away from me (2 Timothy 1:15) He would have liked the churches in Asia to practice his vision,buttheyturnedawayfromhim.
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Key word: Preaching the Gospel of God in everywhere. Yourkeyword: Question: Whom God chose to preach the gospel to theGentiles?Why?

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Week01:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity AnIntroduction Thursday

Scripturereading:Galatians1:12,17;2Peter3:1516.

...andconsiderthatthelongsufferingofourLordis salvation as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written toyou,asalsoinallhisepistles,speakinginthemof these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the restoftheScriptures.2Peter3:1516 Peter'sMinistry Then we have the portion of the Apostle Peter, who wrote two epistles. What is the reason thatPeterpresentedhisepistles?BythistimePeters portion was not the same as it was in the beginning. This portion came after he had matured. Why is his ministry part of the Scriptures? His ministry concludesPaul'sheavenlyvision. Someone needed to say that Paul's epistles came from a heavenly revelation. Paul said that he had received the ministry from the Lord. He said, I
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didnotreceivethisfromman,IreceiveditfromGod. IdidnotreceiveitfromJerusalem,Ididnotreceiveit from the apostles who were before me (Galatians 1:12,17). Who could confirm that what he had received wasreallyfromtheLord?Thisisaproblem. Who could say, This is fine! The epistles of Paul belong to the Scripture? There was the need for a specialistinGodsspeaking. If we find a piece of paper with a different languagewrittenonit,weneedsomeonewhoisable to read it and tell the meaning of that language. You needtocallaspecialisttoanalyzethewritingandbe abletosay:Thisissuchandsuchalanguageandthis is what it is saying.. Then we can say: Okay, fine! Heisaspecialist. Who can bea specialist in Gods speaking? It has to be someone who was following the Lord. For example,wearebelieversandweaccepttheBibleas the word of God. Why do we accept it? We accept it because the apostles accepted it, and the fathers of thechurchacceptedit. At that time, who was qualified to say: the Apostle Paul is speaking from the Spirit? Who could say this? Peter could say this. Peter said that the epistlesofPaulcamefromtheSpirit(2Peter3:1516)
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HehadbeenwiththeLordduringHisincarnation.He had heard the voice of the Lord. He knew the speakingoftheLordJesusverywell.Peterhadheard the Lord Jesus speaking to him. Remember the time on the mountain of transfiguration? The Father spoke. He said, This is my beloved Son. Hear Him! (Matthew 17:5) Then Peter realized, I need to hear Him! It was Peter, James and John that heard the voice of the Father. Now a third voice was speaking: thevoiceoftheSpiritspeakingthroughtheapostles. Paul said, What I am speaking to you, I did not receive from man. I received it from Jesus Christ.Butwhowasqualifiedtosaythatitwasfrom Jesus Christ and not from Paul? Praise the Lord for Peter! He could say, This is the voice of the Lord Jesus. What the apostle Paul is speaking comes from the Spirit and belongs to the Scriptures. This was Petersfirstresponsibility. Keyword:TohearwhatGodisspeaking. Yourkeyword: Question:WhyPetercouldconfirmPaul'sepistles?

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Week01:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity AnIntroduction Friday

Scripture reading: Romans 3:2324, 5:10; 1 Peter 1:1819; Romans 6:45, 8:16; 1 Peter 1:3; Romans 12:12; 2 Corinthians 5:10;1Peter1:4;Hebrews12:6;1Peter4:17.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonableservice.Anddonotbeconformedtothis world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptableandperfectwillofGod.Romans12:12 TheNewTestament'sContent Peter said that Paul wrote things difficult to understand, and Peter was the one who could help us to understand these things that are difficult to understand. For example, there is the matter of the salvationofoursoul. The New Testament presents very important points concerning Gods plan. One point is the redemption of Christ. All Christians agree about this. Christ is the Lamb of God. He died for us to bring us backtoGod.WhenwebelieveinHimwereceivethe
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forgiveness of sins and we are reconciled to God by the blood of Jesus. This is a revelation in the New Testament(Romans3:2324,5:10;1Peter1:1819). Another revelation is regeneration. The New Covenant includes not only the forgiveness of sins but alsothe giftofthe HolySpirit. What is thegift of theHolySpirit?Itisthedivinelife.Wehaveahuman life, and when we believe in Jesus we receive the forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit, which is the divine life. This makes us children of God. This is the result of regeneration, which is through the resurrection of Jesus. He resurrected fromthedead,andthroughHisresurrectionwehave been regenerated. We have received the life of God. PraisetheLord!Thisisthesecondgreatrevelationin the New Testament (Romans 6:45, 8:16; 1 Peter 1:3). The third revelation is concerning the salvation of our soul. After we are regenerated we still need our soul to be saved. Has our soul been saved?Thisisverydifficulttoanswer.WhatdidPeter say?Hesaid,Theendofourfaithisthe salvationof our soul (1 Peter 1:9). He said, The end not the beginning.Thebeginningofourfaithisregeneration. When we believe we receive life, but our soul still
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needstobesaved.Howisoursoulsaved?Itissaved throughtransformationbytherenewingofourmind. Paul's ministry is mainly focused on the salvation of oursoulbythedivinelife.Oursoulneedstobesaved through the renewing of our mind. This is transformation(Romans12:12). Another revelation is the consummation of Gods plan. This consummation has two steps: the consummation of the age, which is the millennium; and the final consummation, which is the eternal consummation;thisistheNewJerusalem,whichisin eternity future. If our soul is saved now, we will receive a reward atthe consummation oftheage. (2 Corinthians5:10;1Peter1:4).Ifoursoulisnotsaved now, we will receive discipline at the consummation of the age. However, in the New Jerusalem all the believers,alltheredeemed,willbethere. We need our soul to be saved. We have two opportunities to have our soul saved: now or in the millennium. As a believer, if it is saved now, we will receive a reward in the millennium. But, if it is not saved now, we will receive discipline in the millennium. This refersto the discipline of the house of God: God disciplines those He loves (Hebrews 12:6; 1 Peter 4:17). It is different for unbelievers.
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Unbelieverswillbecondemnedbecausetheyrefused to receive Gods salvation. So, this is the New Testament: redemption, regeneration, transforma tionandtheconsummation,whichisglorification. Key word: Redemption, regeneration, transforma tionandconsummation. Yourkeyword: Question:Howisoursoulsaved?

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Week01:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity AnIntroduction Saturday

Scripture reading: 1 Peter 1:67; 2 Peter 1:4,8,11; 1Corinthians 3:1314;2Peter3:1114.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being muchmorepreciousthangoldthatperishes,though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,... 1 Peter1:67 ImportantPointsonPeter'sMinistry Peter spoke about the salvation of our soul as something difficult to understand. He also spoke aboutsufferings. The matter of suffering is difficult to understand. Many preachers have said, If you believeinChrist,youwillnotsufferanymore.Isthis true? Are we believers? Do we have Christ? We are believers.Arewesuffering?IhaveChristbutIamstill suffering. What can I do now? Do I need to receive more of Christ? Of course I need to receive more of Christ. However, it does not mean that I will not
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suffer evenif Ido receive more ofChrist.Suffering is necessaryinordertopurifyoursoul.Thisistosuffer by fire. When the fire comes in the way of suffering, wearepurified.Purificationisforthesalvationofour soul (1 Peter 1:67). Is this suffering necessary? Of courseitisnecessary. We know very well from ourexperience that it is necessary. If we do not suffer, we forget about God. If we do not suffer, when we look at ourselves we will not see that we are full of sins, that our inward situation is not good. However, when suffering comes, it brings us back to God: We say, OhLord,Ineedyou!Bewithme!OLord,Ineedyou. Ineedyouformyfamily.Ineedyoufortheministry. So we see that Peter spoke about the matter of suffering. Peteralsospokeaboutourentrance into the kingdomandthematterofthegrowthoflife(2Peter 1:4,8,11). When Paul spoke about the entrance into the kingdom of heaven, it refers to receiving the inheritance. Paul spoke about our work. He said that our work would be tested by fire. If our work is approved,wewillreceiveareward;butifourworkis consumed, we will suffer loss. He was talking about

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work (1Corinthians 3:1314), but Peter talked about ourperson. Our person will also be tested. If our person isnotapproved,wewillnotinheritthekingdom.Not only our work needs to be tested, but our person alsoneedstobetested.Ourlivingneedstobetested by God. So Peter presented the matter of our living. Our life needs to be approved by God if we want to receivethereward(2Peter3:1114). ThisisPeter's ministry. Itistheconclusion of thewordspokenbyPaul.Theybothspokeaboutthe same vision. We do not have the church of Paul and thechurchofPeter.Peoplecanask,Whatchurchdo you belong to? Someone may answer, I belong to the church of Paul because I like his word. I do not likethewordofPeter.Ipreferthewordandspeaking ofPaul.SotheybelongtothechurchofPaul.Wedo nothavethisconcept. Weonlyhaveonechurch: the church of God. However, we do have many ministries. We have the twelve apostles ministries, PaulsministryandthenPetersministry. Keyword:ThesalvationofourSoul. Yourkeyword: Question:Isthissufferingnecessary?Why?
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Week01:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity AnIntroduction Sunday

Scripturereading:John6:63

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, andtheyarelife.John6:63 John'sMinistry Some years later, after Peter died, we have the last ministry, the ministry of Apostle John in his maturity. What was the condition of the church at that time? The church needed help; it needed to be adjusted, to have its problems solved. This is to mend the net. John's ministry is to mend the net. Thisisoneaspectofhisministry. The other aspect is to complete the work. The Lord said, If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you, Peter? They supposed John wouldnotdie,buttheLordJesusdidnotsaythat.He said, If I want him to remain until I come What doesthismean?Thiswasnotreferringtohisperson, but to his portion. Johns portion is for the Lords coming.
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What is John's portion? It is spirit and life (John 6:63). This iswhat willremain until the coming ofthe LordJesus,anditwillgoonforever.Spirit and lifearewhatweneed.Weneedspiritandlifeforour living,forthechurchlifeandforthework.So,wecan see that the ministry of John is for every kind of situation: for our person, for the church and for the work. Praise the Lord! This needs to be our understanding. Keyword:Spiritandlifearewhatweneed. Yourkeyword: Question: Which are the two aspects of John's ministry?

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Week02:TheGenerations:fromtheAngelstoJoshua Monday
Scripture reading: Ezekiel 28:14; Isaiah 14:1213; Daniel 10:13; Jude9;Revelation12:34;2Corinthians4:4;Ephesians1:21;Luke 8:3033

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darknesswasonthefaceofthedeep.AndtheSpirit ofGodwashoveringoverthefaceofthewaters. Genesis1:12 TheAngelicalMinistry We would like to say something about the Old Testament. We want to see the ministries and the generations in the Old Testament. This has been written to help us to be clear about our situation in order for us to correct our mistakes. In every generation there was someone who took the lead in the word. In order to reveal the revelation, the Lord has chosen some vessels. They are able to present God'swilltous. We have many generations in the Old Testament.TherewasagenerationbeforeAdam.We callthisthepreAdamicgeneration.Itwasineternity past, before there was time. We have no idea about
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time then. But, we do find ministry there, we find service.Whowasinchargeofthisservice?Itwasthe archangels,thearchangelsofthecherubim. We are aware of at least three archangels: Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer. We also know that Lucifer rebelled against God and became Satan. He had a commission; he had a ministry (Ezekiel 28:14). We have some understanding of the ministry before AdamfromtherecordintheOldTestament inIsaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. We can realize that the ministry was related to the earth at that time. Lucifer was a cherub used for guarding. He guarded Eden (Ezekiel 28:13), and Eden was on the earth. We can say that Luciferwasinchargeoftheserviceontheearth.This wasbeforeAdam,beforethecreationofman. However, Lucifer exalted himself; he wanted tobegreaterthanhewas.InIsaiah14itsaysthathe wanted to ascend (Isaiah 14:1213). He wanted to ascend because he was on earth. If he were in the heavens he would have said that he wanted to descend. But,hewanted togo higher andhigher. He wanted to exalt himself above the heights of the clouds, to the heavens. This implies that it is very possible that Lucifer was in charge of the service on theearth.
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WhenwereadaboutMichaelhewasfighting inheaven(Daniel10:13;Jude9).Itispossiblethathe was in charge of heaven with angels under his leadership. We also know that Gabriel was in charge of bringing messages (Daniel 8:16; Luke 1:2628). He received messages and he gave messages. He may have been in charge of transportation, connecting heaven with the earth. We may have this understanding; it is not far fetched, it is not an imagination. We understand that they had a commission. Satan rebelled against God and one third of the angels followed him (Revelation 12:34). This shows us that it is possible that one third of the angelswerewithMichael,onethirdwithGabriel,and one third with Lucifer. When Lucifer rebelled against God, all the angels under his leadership followed him. Since he was serving on earth, the original inhabitantsofearthfollowedhim. Thenwhathappened? Godjudgedtheearth, and the earth became empty, under darkness and underwater(Genesis1:2).Therewereevilspiritsand thereweredemons.Thisisthekingdom ofdarkness: Satan, the fallen angels and the demons (2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 1:21; Luke 8:3033). The
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demons were part of the original inhabitants of the earth which were judged by God. They lost their bodies. They became spirits without bodies. The angels are different from the demons; they have a spiritual body. One third of the angels followed Lucifer, and they became part of the kingdom of darkness. This is the background of the creation of man. WhenGodcreatedmanhecreatedhimtobe one with God. God told him to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and have dominion over the earth to establishthekingdomofGodonearthbysubduingit (Genesis 1:28). Subduing what? Man had to subdue thekingdomofdarknesswithSatan,thefallenangels and the demons. Man was created to fight against the kingdom of darkness. But man needs something to fight against the kingdom of darkness: man needs God. Without God, how can man fight against the kingdom ofdarkness?Whatcanmando?Hetried to fight against the kingdom of darkness without God and what was the result? Satan defeated him and man became one with Satan. God created man to fight against Satan, but man needed to be one with God.MantriedtodothingsseparatelyfromGodand
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theresultwasthefallofman(Genesis3:6,1113).Oh LordJesus! We have to see that there was a ministry before Adam. It was the ministry of the cherubim. Two cherubim, Michael and Gabriel, were faithful to God,butLuciferrebelledagainstGod. Keyword:TobeonewithGod. Yourkeyword: Question: What is necessary for one to fight against thekingdomofdarkness?

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Week02:TheGenerations:fromtheAngelstoJoshua Tuesday
Scripture reading: Genesis 3:2223; Genesis 3:21; Genesis 4:26; Hebrews11:5

And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and henamedhimEnosh.Thenmenbegantocallonthe nameoftheLORD.Genesis4:26 TheGenerationoftheSurvivors:AbelandEnoch The preAdamic ministry was before the creation of man. Then we have the creation of man andthefirstgenerationafterit,whichwasunderthe Adam'sleadership.ButAdamfailedhefell(Genesis 3:2223). Could he fulfill his ministry? He was not able to. However during his age we can find people who received a good testimony from God. In Hebrews chapter eleven there are two people who received a good testimony. One was Abel and the otherwasEnoch. Abel received a good testimony because he trustedinthebloodofGod,hebecamerighteous.He was not righteous because he was a good man. No! HetrustedinwhattheLordhadpreparedforhim.He became a shepherd of sheep. God told man, If you wanttobeinMypresence,youneedtobecovered.
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Who can cover us? God Himself (Genesis 3:21). The animal God prepared for Adam was a type of Christ. We can say that our first need is the blood of Christ to cover us. By it we can be recovered to Gods presence. Praise the Lord for Abel! In Abel we can see the blood of God preparing our recovery to His presencethroughChrist. What can we do without God? We can do nothing. Without God we are full of Satan. We cannot fight against Satan if we are separated from God. But we have a problem with God sin. We are sinners. How can we present ourselves before God? We can only be in Gods presence if He makes us righteous. The righteousness of God isChrist.Howcan wereceivethisChrist?Throughtheredemption,through theblood,wecanreceiveChrist.PraisetheLordforthe bloodoftheLamb!ThisisAbel(Hebrews11:4). We also have Enoch. Man has another problem death. His problem is not only sin. Sin separatedusfromGod,butdeathiswithinus.Death is progressive: we are dying. Yes, we do have the blood of Jesus to save us from our sin, but death is within us. We need something else: we need the nameoftheLordtobeabletowalkwithGod.Enoch walkedwithGod,andhedidnotseedeath.Godtook
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Enoch to Himself. He pleased God; he walked with Him. How can we walk with God? We can walk with God by calling on His name, Oh Lord Jesus! (Genesis4:26;Hebrews11:5). Abel walked with Cain, and he died. Is this nottrue?Yes,itistrue.Abelwalkedwithhisbrother Cain. Cain wanted to kill Abel,andhe invitedhim for a walk (Genesis 4:8 NIV). Abel followed him, and whathappened?Hedied.Cainwashisbrother.Ifour brotherisnotinthepresenceofGodhewillkillus. We need to learn how to walk with God. Todayonthisearth,wecanwalkwithGod.Wherever we go we can walk with God by calling on His name: Oh Lord Jesus! Jesus is Lord! In any situation, if someone is inviting us, we can now ask God, Lord Jesus, do I have to follow him? If I have no feeling to, and the Spirit says, No! then I will not follow him.IwillfollowtheLord.ThenameoftheLordwas given to man to protect man against death. Death is everywhere.Howcanwesurvive?Wecansurviveby callingonthenameoftheLord. Keyword:OhLordJesus! Yourkeyword: Question:HowcanwewalkwithGod?
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Week02:TheGenerations:fromtheAngelstoJoshua Wednesday
Scripturereading:Genesis6:17;Genesis6:22;Genesis7:1

By faith Noah, beingdivinelywarned ofthings not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemnedtheworldandbecameheiroftheright eousnesswhichisaccordingtofaith.Hebrews11:7 TheGenerationoftheSurvivors:Noah The Lord judged that generation with a strong flood. This was God's judgment (Genesis 6:17). How can we protect ourselves from Gods judgment? There is only one protection and it is something that comes from God himself. We need a housebuiltbyGod.IfGodisgoingtotestourhouse, what kind of house do we need to build? We need a housebuiltbyGod.IfahouseisbuiltbyGod,itdoes notmatterifGodjudgesit;ithasbeenbuiltbyGod. ThearkthatNoahbuiltwasnotNoah'sark;it wasGod's. If it was Noahs ark it could not resist the judgment of God. We used to say that it was Noahs ark, but it was not. If it was Noahs ark, it could not stand. It was Gods ark. God gave the details, the
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measurements andtheinstructions (Genesis 6:22). It was built by divine instruction, by Gods instruction. Noah built according to Gods instruction, and the result was that he and his family were preserved (Genesis7:1). We can call this generation, the survivors. At the time of Adam, at the time of the flood, we only have the survivors: Abel, Enoch and Noah survivedagainstthekingdomofdarkness. How can we survive in these days? How can wesurvive?Canwesurviveifweareseparated from God? The kingdom of darkness will defeat us. We dont only have the kingdom of darkness; we also have Gods judgment. How can we be preserved from Gods judgment? We need something from God. Jesus is Lord! We need the blood, we need the nameandweneedthewordofGod.PraisetheLord! Keyword:TobefaithfultoGod Yourkeyword: Question: How can we be preserved from Gods Judgment?

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Week02:TheGenerations:fromtheAngelstoJoshua Thursday
Scripturereading:2Peter2:1

But the anointing which you have received from Himabidesinyou,andyoudonotneedthatanyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, andjustasithastaughtyou,youwillabideinHim. 1John2:27 SurvivingonthisEarth TheprovisionthatGodhaspreparedforusto survive on this earth is His blood, His name and His word. Oh, Praise the Lord! Who wants to be the survivors on this earth? We have only one way: to receive God's provision, which is His blood to defeat sin, His name to defeat death and His word to be approvedatthetimeofthejudgmentofGod. Abel, Enoch and Noah are presented in Hebrews chapter 11. In the first two thousand years of human history, only these three men were mentioned by God, from whom we can learn something. What did they receive? They received approval because of the blood, the name, and the
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word of God. Praise the Lord! This is the first generationofhumanhistory.Itisagenerationofthe survivors. How can we survive against the kingdom of darkness? Even if you are able to survive the kingdom ofdarkness,howcan you survive the flood, which is the judgment of God? How can we survive? We need something from God. If we have an ark from man, it cannot withstand Gods judgment. We needGodsarkwhichcomesfromthewordofGod;it comesfromtheSpirit.Ifweareenteringintoamans ark, we can probably do many things. However, we will not be able to withstand the judgment of Christ. Weneeddivineinstruction. Todaywecanfindmanypeoplespeakingthe word of God. They are presenting their particular revelation saying that they have a revelation, that they have a ministry. But it is their revelation and their ministry, and it cannot withstand Gods judgment (2 Peter 2:1). We need something from God His blood, His name and His Word to be protected, to be preserved. But this is just to be a survivor,andwearenotheremerelytobesurvivors. TheLordhascalledustobeconquerors,overcomers, toestablishthekingdom.
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Week02:TheGenerations:fromtheAngelstoJoshua Friday
Scripturereading:Hebrews11:89;Genesis12:12;Genesis21:3

NowtheLORDhadsaidtoAbram:'Getoutofyour country, from your family and from your fathers house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. Genesis 12:12 TheGenerationofthePromise:Abraham After the generation of survivors the Lord came to give us a promise. From the time of Abraham we have the second generation. This is a generation of promise. It began with Abraham comingoutofhislandandhisfathershousetogoto a place that the Lord would show to him (Hebrews 11:89).TheretheLordwouldblessHim:hewouldbe the father ofa greatnation. He would receive anew land and become a great nation. This nation would receiveablessingandbeablessingtoallthenations andtoallthefamiliesoftheearth. The promise is related to three things: the land, a nation and a blessing (Genesis 12:12). We
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need to go to a new land to become a new nation andthenwewillbeablessing.ThisisGodspromise. We arenotmerely survivors, weneedanew land. We have to go from the land of our father to thelandofpromise.Whereisthelandofourfather? It is our human life. We were born with this life, the human life, but we need to be transferred to a new land. Which land is this? It is Christ as our new land and our good land, with all of Gods riches. If we movetothisnewlandwecanbecomeanewnation. Thisnationwillreceiveablessing,andthisnationwill beablessingtoallthenations. This is Gods plan: the survivors receive a calling, a calling by faith to go to enjoy a new land. Theybecomeanationtoreceivepowerablessing tofilltheearthandpropagatethekingdom.Thiswas thepromiseofGodtoAbraham. Abraham believed, but in order to fulfill the plan,heneededtohaveadescendent. Tobecomea nation, Abraham needed a descendent. How could a nationbeproduced? Abrahamneededadescendent. But he didnt have a descendent. He was getting old and he didnt have a descendent. If there were no descendent, there could be no nation. One day the

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Lord fulfilled His promise and Isaac came (Genesis 21:3). Keyword:God'sBlessing Yourkeyword: Question: Which are the three things promised to Abraham?

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Week02:TheGenerations:fromtheAngelstoJoshua Saturday
Scripturereading:Genesis25:5;25:26;31:4142;32:28;50:25

And He said, 'Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God andwithmen,andhaveprevailed.'Genesis32:28 TheGenerationofthePromise: Isaac,JacobandJoseph Isaac was Abrahams descendent to produce a nation. Although Isaac inherited everything from Abraham (Genesis 25:5), a transformation was still necessary. Isaacs soul needed to be transformed. ThuswehaveJacob. Jacob was a supplanter (Genesis 25:26). He alsoneeded tobetransformed, fromasupplanter to a prince. When we were born, we were supplanters: wewanteverything forourselves.WewantGod,but wewantHimtodowhatwewant.Thereistheneed for the transformation of our soul and then we can become princes of God. This is Israel: Israel is a prince of God. Who is Israel? Israel is Jacob after transformation.

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Jacob was transformed in his uncles house (Genesis 31:4142). He went there and suffered for twenty years. When he left, God found him and changed his name: You are no longer Jacob now you are Israel (Genesis 32:28). What does Israel mean? It means a prince of God. Today God is working in us, transforming us from being a supplanter to a prince of God. This prince can rule overtheearth. WhowasJoseph?Hewasthecontinuationof Israel. In his maturity he reigned overEgypt (Genesis 41:40).ThisisaveryimportantpictureofGodsplan. God has called us out of the land of idols to a new land, which is Christ. As we enjoy Christ with all His riches, we are being transformed. Praise the Lord thatwecan be transformed from Jacob to Israeland can mature to become like Joseph, ruling over the earth.ThisisGodsplan,andthisisGodspromise. However, in the last verse of Genesis we see that Joseph had died and his bones were inside a coffin in Egypt (Genesis 50:25). Is this God's plan? Gods plan is ready, but it is inside a coffin in Egypt. What is this? This is a seed. The bones represent life andthecoffinreferstosomethingonthesurface.On one hand, it is not good because Joseph is dead, but
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ontheotherhand,thisisaseed.Butthisseedneeds to be sown. Exactly at this point God initiated anothergeneration. Keyword:TobeaPrinceofGod. Yourkeyword: Question: What the bones of Joseph inside a coffin represents?

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Week02:TheGenerations:fromtheAngelstoJoshua Sunday
Scripturereading:Joshua24:32; Hebrews 3:5; 5:4;Deuteronomy 31:7;Numbers14:24;Ephesians6:17;Joshua11:23

When you have eaten and are full, then you shall blesstheLORDyourGodforthegoodlandwhichHe hasgivenyou.Deuteronomy8:10 TheGenerationofConquerors: Moses,Aaron,Joshua We havethe generationofpromise andnow the generation of conquerors. Moses, Aaron, and Joshua came out ofEgypt bringing Josephs bones as a seed to sow into the good land to produce the kingdomandtoproducethenation(Joshua24:32). We can see the seed of the ministry in the book of Genesis. In it we can find the survivors and thegenerationofpromise.Godisthere;Godsplanis there; the kingdom of God is there; however, it is inside a coffin. Now we need another generation so thatthepeopleofGodcanbeeducated,liveundera vision and become an army to conquer the land by defeating the enemy and establish the kingdom. From the book of Exodus to the book of
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Joshua we have the generation of conquerors. What do we need to conquer the land? We need a proper leadership, a proper legislation that comes from the word of God (Hebrews 3:5). We also need an educator,whichisthehouseofAaron(Hebrews5:4), to prepare the people, to teach the people how to have fellowship with God; how to serve God; and howtoliveaproperlifeasthepeopleofGod.Finally thesepeopleneedtobepreparedasanarmysothey can enter into the land, destroy the walls and conquer the city. At that time they used the sword, buttodayourswordisthewordofGod;itisthespirit of Joshua and Caleb (Deuteronomy 31:7; Numbers 14:24;Ephesians6:17).PraisetheLord!Thisrefersto thecontinuationofGenesis. In Exodus we have the leadership of Moses, Aaron and Joshua. They are there. We can see the revelationthatGodgavetoMosestoleadthepeople of God. Also we have the tabernacle which shows us Gods presence, together with his people. When we havethewordofGod,wehavetheproperleadership and Gods presence to lead us. How we need to practicethisword!ThisisLeviticus. Leviticus shows us how the people of God can have fellowship with God and serve God, and
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how they need to live. Fellowship, service and living; these are the three aspects that we need to learn from Gods word. We have to learn how to have fellowship with God; how to approach God; how to be reconciled to him; how to have peace with him; and how to please him. Oh Lord Jesus! Finally we have to learn how to serve Him and how to live a proper life. These are the people of God, and now theycanbecomeanarmytofightforGod. We can see the result of Gods speaking: Gods leadership and Gods education. Then we becomeanarmy.Nowwecanpreachthegospel,and wecanconquerthe land(Joshua 11:23).This iswhat we are doing to fill the earth. Afterwards the people of God entered the good land and established the kingdom. When we come to the book of Joshua we find a good picture: the land of God (Deuteronomy 8:710). Keyword:Learnhowtoliveaproperlife Yourkeyword: Question: Which are the three aspects that we need tolearnfromGod`sword?

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Week03:TheGenerations:fromDavidtoApostleJohn Monday
Scripturereading:Judges21:25;1Samuel3:4;10:1;16:3;2 Samuel7:10;1Chronicles22:89

And it came to pass, when the priests came out of theHolyPlace,thatthecloudfilledthehouseofthe LORD, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. 1 Kings 8:1011 GenerationofBuilders:DavidandSolomon Up to this point, the people of God have conquered the land, defeated the enemy and established Gods kingdom. After this we have the book of Judges. In the book of Judges there is no progress. The people of God stopped. They became weak, but at least they did not lose the land (Judges 21:25). Then the Lord called Samuel (1 Samuel 3:4). God anointed him to anoint Saul as king of Israel (1 Samuel10:1).ButSaulwasnotqualifiedtobeaking. We praise the Lord that God found David and anointed him (1 Samuel 16:3). David was a man
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according Gods heart. He was anointed to be the king of Israel. David propagated the kingdom, preparedthematerialstobuildthehouseofGodand received a revelation concerning the place to build it (2Samuel7:10).However,hewasnotabletobuildit because he was very violent and shed too much blood (1 Chronicles 22:8). He was very violent! If we areviolentwearenotqualifiedtobuildthehouseof God. He was disqualified from building the house because he shed too much blood. But we praise the LordforSolomon.WhenSolomoncame,peacecame, and he was able to build the house of God (1 Chronicles 22:9). We can call this the generation of builders. Not only do we need to be conquerors, but we also need to be builders. To build the house of Godweneedtobeanointed,weneedrevelationand we also need wisdom. It is one thing is to be together, but it is another thing to build together. It iseasyto cometo the conference andstay together, but it is not easy to build together after the conference. Intheconference we haveno problems; we are happy, and we are enjoying. But after the conference, David needs to die and Solomon needs to bring peace. To be together to build the house of
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God we need peace, we need humility and we need wisdom.ThiswasGodsplantobringablessingtoall thenations. Keyword:Tobuildtogether. Yourkeyword: Question: What do we need to build the house of God?

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Week03:TheGenerations:fromDavidtoApostleJohn

Tuesday
Scripturereading:Deuteronomy17:1619;20;1Kings10:2829; 11:78;12:34;9:1517

andheshallreaditallthedaysofhislife,thathe may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes,Deuteronomy17:19 NottoForgettheWordofGod What happened after Solomon? Because the word of God was forgotten, deviation and degradationcamein.EvenSolomonforgottheword. Solomon decided to do everything differently from whattheLordhadsaid. In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 17 we haveawordregardingtheking.WhenIsraelhadaking, the king was not to multiply horses from Egypt for himself; he was not to multiply gold and silver for himself;hewasnottomultiplywomenforhimself;and hemustmakeacopyofthewordtoreadeverydayfor his instruction. Firstly, the Lord told the king not to return to Egypt for horses; secondly, not to multiply wivesforhimself;thirdly,nottomultiplysilverandgold
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forhimself;andfourthly,tomakeacopyofthelawto readallthedaysofhislife(Deuteronomy17:1619). But what did Solomon do? He married one thousandwomen,andthefirstonewasthedaughter of the king of Egypt (1 Kings 11:3;9:16). Can you understand this? He did the complete opposite of Gods word. He multiplied six hundred and sixtysix talents of gold a year (1 Kings 10:14). Do you know what six hundred and sixtysix means? At that time nobodyknewwhatitmeant.Butnow,becauseofthe book of Revelation, we know that six hundred and sixtysix is the number of iniquity (Revelation 13:18). Infact,wehaveRevelationbecauseoftheministryof the apostle John. Why did Solomon multiply six hundred and sixtysix talents of gold? This number is the number of iniquity. Solomon opened a gate to have more gold than was necessary. This brought exaltationtohimself(Deuteronomy17:20). IfweareservantsofGodandtheLordputsus intheleadership,wecannotmultiplygoldandsilverfor ourselves. We can do it for the kingdom, but not for ourselves.WecannotgobacktoEgypttogethorsesfor ourselves (1 Kings 10:2829). We can do it for the kingdom, but not for ourselves. The problem is that people go to Egypt and get horses for themselves but
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not for the kingdom. This brings damage to people's hearts.ThisiswhathappenedtoSolomon. He also brought in forced labor to build housesforhiswives.Everywifeaskedforapalaceto live in. Imagine he had seven hundred wives. Do you think that one of his wives would like to live in thesamehouseasanotherwife?Thewifewouldsay toSolomon:Icanmarryyou,butyouneedtogivemea house;andthenIwillagreetobeyourwife.But,Iwanta palaceformyself.AndSolomonwouldanswer:That's fine! No problem! I will build a palace for you. Seven hundred palaces would be very expensive (1 Kings 11:78).Whowouldbuildthesepalaces? In the beginning it was foreigners who did the building, but later the poor people became slaves. The people of God became slaves! (1 Kings 12:34)What kind of work were they involved in? TheywereinvolvedinbuildingpalacesforSolomons wives. Today people have ministries, and then they establish forced labor to build up something personal.Thisisverydangerous(1Kings9:1517). Keyword:ObeythewordofGod Yourkeyword: Question:WhatwasthefaultofSolomon?
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Week03:TheGenerations:fromDavidtoApostleJohn Wednesday
Scripturereading:2Kings25:811;22:8,13;Ezra1:1;Matthew 1:1

...thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms oftheearth the LORD Godof heaven hasgivenme. AndHehascommandedmetobuildHimahouseat JerusalemwhichisinJudah.Ezra1:2 TheGenerationoftheRecovery: Ezra,Nehemiah,Zechariah,Haggai Fromthattimethereweremanykings.There weregoodkingsandbadkings,butthemajoritywere bad kings. The result was deviation and degradation. We can call them the lost generation. Why the lost generation? They lost everything. They lost the city, they lost the walls, they lost the temple, and they lost the land. They lost everything and went into captivity(2Kings25:811).Jerusalemwasdestroyed thewallsweredestroyed,thetemplewasdestroyed, and others took the land. We call them the lost generation. What caused this lost generation? They lost the book of God, they lost the word of God (2 Kings
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22:8,13). If we deviate from this book and decide to build things for ourselves, we will be a lost generation.OhLordJesus!Thisiswhathappened. We praise the Lord that He called the generation of recovery with Ezra, Nehemiah, Zechariah and Haggai. They were prophets they were the recovery prophets. Ezra and Nehemiah were called by the Lord to bring the people back to the chosen place in order to establish the proper testimonyofGodbyrebuildingthecity,thewalls,the temple, the service and the priesthood. They rebuilt everything. This is why we call them the generation ofrecovery. When we come to the New Testament we see the same situation. After the church was established, deviation and degradation came in, and the church, the testimony of God, was destroyed. It wasnolongerpossibletofindthechurchofGod.We can find the church of man, the ministry ofman, but not the church of God. Where was the testimony of Godaccording thewordofGod?PraisetheLordthat in these last days, through recovery, we can come backtothepropergroundtobethetestimonyofthe LordJesus.

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We are just the church. People may ask you, Which church are you? We answer, The church justthechurchthechurchinNakuru.Thisisenough forus.Wedonotcareaboutanythingelse.Butthey may insist, Which church do you belong to? We belong to the church. According to the Bible it is the church.Butwhichchurch?Thechurch!Whenwe come to the Bible it says church only church. If you are in Jerusalem, you are the church in Jerusalem.IfyouareinNakuru,youarethechurchin Nakuru.Nothingelse!Wedonotneedanythingelse. Why?BecausethewordofGodonlysaysthatweare thechurch. We have been brought back to the proper ground, but we also need to be brought back to the proper service, the proper building. This indicates that recovery comes through the word of God (Ezra 1:1). Praise the Lord! In the time of the recovery in the Old Testament, we only find prophets. The faithfulonesweretheprophets.Thepeoplewerenot involved, and the situation became very weak until theLord'scoming. After the generation of recovery in the Old Testament, we have the books of poetry and the booksofprophecy.Thisshowsusthatifyouwantto
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be in the line of the generation of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:1), you need to come to the line of poetry and prophecy. Our life needs to be a poetic life. A poem is a verse that follows a specific rule. If youwanttowriteapoem,youneedversesaccording tospecificrules.Whatkindofrules?Thatdependson thepoem.ForourpoemtobeintheBible,ourruleis that we need to experience God. We need to experience God! We need to experience God in His name, in His word and in His plan. Our life needs to be related to God, with His name, His word, and His plan. This will make us poets. Our poem will become thebasisofourprophecy,ourprophecyaboutChrist. If you want to prophesy, you need to experience God, you need to experience Christ in His name, His word, and His plan. His plan is His church for the establishment of His kingdom. This is an overview of thegenerationsoftheOldTestament. Keyword:WeneedanexperiencewithGod Yourkeyword: Question: What do we need in order to prophesy andwhatdoweprophesyabout?

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Week03:TheGenerations:fromDavidtoApostleJohn Thursday
Scripturereading:John4:34

Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of HimwhosentMe,andtofinishHiswork.John4:34 TheGenerationofJesusChrist TobepartofGod'sgenerationweneedtobe faithful.WeneedGod.IfweareseparatedfromGod and try to meet Satan, we will be deceived and will becomehisfollowers.Weneedtolearnthislesson:if wehavetomeetSatan,wefirstlyneed God.OhLord Jesus! After the creation of man, we have a generation from Adam to Abraham, the generation of the survivors Abel, Enoch and Noah. How did they survive? They survived because they received Gods provision, which is the blood, the name and the word. The word is for building an ark to protect us against God's judgment. Then we can enter into the generation of promise with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. If we receive this promise we become a seed, a seed of the ministry. This seed needstobesowninthegoodland.
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Next we need the generation of the conquerorsMoses,AaronandJoshuatoenterinto thegoodland. After we conquer the land, we need to build the housewith Samuel, David andSolomon.Tobuild the house of God we need to be faithful to Gods word. If we deviate we can become the lost generationandlosethetestimony,losetheland,lose everything. When everything is lost, God calls the restorers, the generation of recovery, with Ezra, Nehemiah,ZechariahandHaggai.JesusisLord! Finally,tobeconnected totheLordscoming weneedtobepoeticandprophetic.Godneedstobe includedinourlife.Thefirstbookofpoetrywasfrom Job. The story of Job is in the Bible because he repented. When we repent our story can enter into the Bible. Oh Lord Jesus! Repenting changes our situation, and we can become prophets to be connected with Christ. Then we have the generation ofJesusChrist. Praise the Lord for the trip we have made through the generations: the survivors, the promise, the conquerors, the builders, the recovery and the prophets. We need all these experiences in order to
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be closer to the generation of Jesus Christ. If we are notinthislinewewillfallintothelostgeneration.Oh Lord Jesus! Do not go to the lost generation. Stay firminthelineofthegenerationofJesusChrist. Praise the Lord for the ministry of the Apostle John that helps us to adjust our situation, to mendthenet.Tomendthenetistomendtheholes. Theholesrefertowhatwelack.Whenwelookatthe Old Testament, we can learn from the holes and applythemtooursituation.Thenwecanbemended andcompletethework.TheburdenoftheSpiritisto mend the net and to complete the work. Praise the Lord! Let us allow the Lord to adjust our lives, and thenwecancompletethework(John4:34). Keyword:ChangingourLife. Yourkeyword: Question: What do we need to become part of the generationofJesusChrist?

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Week03:TheGenerations:fromDavidtoApostleJohn Friday
Scripturereading:Matthew10:24;Acts3:1,11;4:13;8:14; Galatians2:9;Revelation1:9;Matthew4:2122

Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him. Matthew 4:2122 TheFirstAspectofJohn'sMinistry: MendingtheNets We already had an introduction to the ministryoftheApostleJohninhismaturity.Weknow that John was one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:24). The first section of Johns ministry was during the time that John was a disciple of the Lord Jesus,duringHisincarnationinHisearthlyministry. After the Lord's resurrection, John became oneoftheleadersinthechurchinJerusalem.Wecan say that this is the second section of his ministry. In the book of Acts, regarding what is recorded about the church in Jerusalem, John was always with the
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Apostle Peter (Acts 3:1,11; 4:13; 8:14). They propagatedthegospeltootherplaces.LatertheLord raiseduptheApostlePaul. We do not have any information about John atthistimeotherthanintheEpistletotheGalatians, where Paul called John a pillar in the church in Jerusalem(Galatians2:9).Then,whentheLordcalled JohnwhilehewasinexileontheIslandofPatmos,he received four great visions (Revelation 1:9). These four great visions are the content of the book of Revelation and became the basis of the ministry of the Apostle John in his maturity. According to the historyofthechurch,afterreceivingthesefourgreat visions, John left the Island of Patmos and went to Ephesus. There he completed his ministry, and this ministry we call the ministry of the Apostle John in his maturity. The Gospel of John and his three epistles are the content of the ministry of Apostle Johninhismaturity. Why did the Lord call him in his maturity? John had two main responsibilities. The first was relatedtomendingthenet.Ithinkallofushaveread theBible,andweknowtheexperienceofJohnwhen he was initially called by the Lord. He was with his brother, and they were mending nets (Matthew
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4:2122). This is the first aspect of his ministry. To mend the net is to cover a hole, to repair problems, to adjust the situation. This is why it is important for us to realize our mistakes, our failures. We are like vessels.Ifwehaveholesinavesselandweputwater into it, the water, the content, will not remain there because of the holes. A net is to catch fish. We can fish, but if there is a hole in the net, the fish do not remain. We do not need many holes. If there is one holewithenough spacefor onefishto pass through, all the fish will escape. If we have a hole in a fence thatisbigenoughforonecowtopassthrough,when we go to look for the cattle, we will not find them. Since the fence has a hole, all the cattle will get away. This shows us how important it is to cover, to repair, the holes. This is the portion of the Apostle John. Keyword:Tobemended. Yourkeyword: Question:Howcanwetobemended?

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Week03:TheGenerations:fromDavidtoApostleJohn Saturday
Scripturereading:John21:18;Matthew16:18;Matthew24:14

Jesus said to him, 'If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me. John 21:22 TheSecondAspectofJohn'sMinistry: CompletingtheWork The other aspect of the ministry of the Apostle John in his maturity is related to what the LordsaidaboutJohn.TheLordtoldtheApostlePeter that the time would come when someone would bind his hands, and he would go to a place that he didnotwanttogoto(John21:18).TheLordsaidthis concerning Peters death (v.19). He would probably be arrested. Nobody wants to be arrested, but this didhappentoPeter.Hewasarrestedandhewasput intoprison. After the Lord revealed this to Peter, Peter looked at John and asked the Lord, What about him? (v.21). He did not call John by his name. He asked, What about him? What about this one? If you consider someone as your fellow worker, you
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would not call him this one. You would call him by hisname.Forexample,ifsomeoneconsidersbrother A as a fellow worker, he would not ask brother B, What about this one? Nor would he say, Brother B,areyougoingtotravel?Whataboutthisone?He would not say this because brother A is his fellow worker. If we call someone this one it means that we do not consider that person very much. It is very possible that because John was so young he was like a boy, just a bit bigger than a boy he was not considered to have a name. But the Lord answered, If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?(v.22). This point is important. Even the disciples startedtosay,Oh,thisonewillnotdie!Itellyou,if someone will not die, I would like to be with him. If we are going to travel, it is better to travel with someone who will not die. If we are going to travel byplane,andifbrotherJohnwillnotdie,Iwanttogo in his plane. When he enters into a bus, I will enter withhim.Sinceweknowthathewillnotdie,thisbus will be fine. The Lord did not say to him that he would not die. To remain until the Lord comes does not mean that he would not die. This is referring to hisministry.
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TheportionthatJohnhasisthefinalportion. Itistohelpustocompletethework.TheLordsaid,I will build My church," (Matthew 16:18) and "This gospel of the kingdom has to be preached to the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14). The propagation of the gospel and the testimony of the Lord Jesus are essential points of the Lords coming. The Lord needs to raise up His testimony in every nation. He did not say every city, he said every nation. We want to preach the gospel in every city, but forthe Lords coming, thisis not necessary. What is necessary is to preach the gospel to every nation. Which kind of gospel? Not just the gospel of grace, but the gospel of the kingdom. Keyword:Topreachthegospeltoeverynation! Yourkeyword: Question: What the Lord was referring to in John 21:22?

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Week03:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity Sunday
Scripturereading:Romans8:1617;Romans5:1718;Matthew 9:35;Romans5:810;Romans12:2;Matthew5:12

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,... Matthew 28:1819 TheGospeloftheKingdom What is the difference between grace and the kingdom? Grace includes redemption and regeneration. When we believe in Jesus as our Savior,wereceivetheforgivenessofsinsandthegift of the Holy Spirit. We do not need to do anything else. We simply repent, believe, confess that we are sinners, call on the name of the Lord, freely receive the forgiveness of sins by the blood of Jesus, and receive the divine life. This divine life is forever. Divine life is like drinking: we believe (drink) and we receive eternal life. We cannot lose eternal life. This life belongs to us. We are children of God forever
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(Romans 8:1617). It is as if you have three children and, in the future, your son comes to you and says that he does not want to be your son anymore. He wants to go out and choose another one to be his father.Canhedothis?Hecansaythis,butitwillnot change the fact that he is your son, because he cannot lose the life he has received. This is grace; graceisforever(Romans5:1718). The gospel that the Lord preached was not the gospel of grace. He preached the gospel of the kingdom (Matthew 9:35). The kingdom includes authority, it includes government (Matthew 28:1819). Your son needs to obey you. This is the gospelofthekingdom. Younotonlyreceivelife,but yousubmittoauthority. Butwehavesomething withinusthatisvery difficulttodealwith:oursoul.Wehavesomethingin our soul that is against God because of the sin that has entered into us and has infected our soul. We have a disease in our soul. We do not admit it, but we are enemies of God in our mind. But praise the Lord that through the blood of Jesus we have been reconciledtoGod(Romans5:810).Nevertheless,we stillneedtobetransformed.This isthegospelofthe kingdom. The goal of the gospel of the kingdom is
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our soul the transformation of our soul (Romans 12:2). ThisisthereasonfortheteachingoftheLord Jesus. The Lord Jesus teaching was not to unbelievers. Will the Lord Jesus teach the unbelievers? Will He say, Come unbelievers, I will teach you? No! Unbelievers do not want to listen. They do not believe. They need to repent, believe, confessthenameoftheLord,andbebaptized.When they become a believer, the Lord will teach them (Matthew 5:12). The requirement to receive the teaching isregeneration. Whydo weneedtoreceive the teaching of the Lord Jesus? We need to receive His teaching in order to have our soul transformed. The result is the testimony of Jesus Christ, which is the church. This is the content of the New Testament. Keyword:Oursoultobetransformed. Yourkeyword: Question: Whatisthedifferencebetweenthegospel ofgraceandthegospelofthekingdom?

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Week04:TheMirroroftheOldTestament Monday
Scripturereading:2Timothy1:15;Genesis1:28;Romans11:11, 1520;Hebrews3:1819,4:6,11

Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.Hebrews4:11 BeingFaithfulltotheLord'sComission TheApostleJohnreceivedthecommissionto complete the work and to help us to practice the visiontheLordhadgivenhim.TheLordgaveavision to the Apostle Paul and to the Apostle Peter. But at the time of John, the vision they had received was notbeingpracticedbythechurches(2Timothy1:15). The Lord called John to apply the vision, to help the saints to receive the word of God, to mend the net, to build up the Body of Christ, and to propagate the gospel toallthe nationsso that theend couldcome. PraisetheLord! I hope we can all understand the two commissions of the Apostle John to mend the net andtocompletetheworkinordertobringtheLord back. We need to realize our commission and our
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mistakes,ourfailures.Thisiswhywehavetoseethe generations and the ministries in the Old Testament. Our commission from the Lord is the same as theirs. God created man with the same purpose; Adam received the same commission we have received. What was Adams commission? It was to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,subdue itand have dominion. What is this? This is to establish the kingdom of God (Genesis1:28). HowcanthekingdomofGodbeestablished? When man becomes one with God the kingdom can beestablished.IfmanisnotonewithGodhecannot fulfill his commission. What can God do? Can God create a robot with a commission to fulfill His plan? No! God cannot create a robot to fulfill His plan. But ifmanfailstofulfillGodsplan,whatwillGoddo?He willreplaceman. Forexample,ifsomeonetakestheleadinthe church and he is going a way that is not the Lords way,theLordwillcomeandstophim.Hemightstart to take the Lords way, but if he suddenly gets tired andgoesbacktohisway,theLordwillnotgiveupon him. The Lord will ask him again to change the way heisgoing,repentandgotheLordsway.But,ifafter sometimehegoesbacktohisway,theLordwillhave
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todisciplinehim.Ifhestilldoesnotchange,theLord willcomeandreplacehim(Romans11:11,1520). Ifabrotheristakingtheleadandisgoinghis way,theLordwillcallhim,Stop!Ididnottellyouto gothisway!Itoldyoutogothatwaygothatway! Okay,good,fine,goodthankYouverymuch.Then he takes the right way. But, five minutes later he says,Idonotlikethisway;Iwillgobacktomyway. So, the Lord comes again; What are you doing? I told you to go that way. Now I will discipline you. Then the brother will say, No, no, please dont discipline me. I will go Your way. Are you sure? Do youpromise? Okay, fine. Thenthe brother goesthe Lords way. But five minutes later, I am tired. I will go my way. Then the Lord comes: I will tell you once more. If you take your way, I will replace you. If the brother decides to go his own way, the Lord will replace him and call someone else (Hebrews 3:1819,4:6,11). Keyword:Nottobereplaced. Yourkeyword: Question: How can the kingdom of God be established?

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Week04:TheMirroroftheOldTestament Tuesday
Scripturereading:Matthew25:15;1Timothy3:25;Ephesians 4:1112,16

...from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share,causesgrowthofthebodyfortheedifyingof itselfinlove.Ephesians4:16 TheDifferentFunctionsofOurService A brother can be replaced and so can a generation.Webelongtoageneration.Weallbelong to the same generation, but we have different functions. There is a very well known game called chess.Eachpieceinthisgamehasafunction.Weare playing, or fighting, against others. We are fighting against the kingdom of darkness. We all have different abilities. In chess there is the queen, the castle, the bishop, and the knight. They all have different functions. Also, there are the pawns (soldiers).Thesoldiersmovejustonespaceatatime. They have one talent (Matthew 25:15); they cannot
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gofurtheronlyonespaceatime.Nevertheless,they areimportant;theyprotectthecastleandtheknight. We need all the abilities. We can say that some among us are like a queen. The queen can move quickly from one place to another. The queen has fivetalents (v.20).Youcannotsay,Iwantthequeen to die so that I can be in a better position. We are like soldiers moving one space at a time, and the queen moves very quickly from here to there. You cannot say, I want the queen to die so that the soldiers can move. If our queen dies we all will be killed. The opponents will attack us since we will not haveprotection. WeareonGods side.Wehavebrothersand sisters with different abilities, but our place is on Gods side. If I do not like the fact that a brother is movingveryfastandIwanthimtoleave,Iwillhavea problem. The enemy will move very quickly to cause problems for me since the brother who was moving fastdied. This is the game of the Lord.Webelong to the same generation, but we have different functions. For example, I am serving you. If I leave, you will need someone to replace me; and it is not easy tofindsomeonetoreplaceanyone(1Timothy3:25).
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He needs to be born, raised, educated, and get married. His wife needs to be one with him and not cause problems for him. Sometimes we find a brother that wants to travel, but his wife does not want him to. He may travel, but when he returns home the wife says, Don't go anymore. If you go, I will leave our home. What is this brother going to do?Hecannottravelanymore.Ifhetravelshewillbe aloneandpeoplewillsay,Hedoesnthaveauthority hiswifelefthim.ItisnoteasyfortheLordtofinda husband,awife,andchildrenthatfollowtheLord. Ourchildren arenotangels,butatleastthey are following the Lord. Most of the time we would like to have children who are like angels. Angels are verysubmissive.Theydontmakenoise.Theywillnot make noise if you are sleeping. You do not need to ask them to stop making noise. They are very submissive, but they obey God. If God asks them to make noise, you will not be able to sleep because they will be making noise. Angels are definitely differentfromchildren.IfGodsaystoachild,Please stopcrying,thechildwillcontinuetocry.Angelsand children are different. We have children, not angels. Theygrow,theymature,theylearntoknowGodand howtodenythemselves.ThisisGodsplan.Todaywe
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are together. The Lord has put us together to serve him, and we need each other very much (Ephesians 4:1112,16). Keyword:Weneedeachother. Yourkeyword: Question: Which lesson can we learn from the game ofchess?

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Week04:TheMirroroftheOldTestament Wednesday
Scripturereading:3John910;1Peter5:13;Philippians2:28

Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself... Let this mind be in you whichwasalsoinChristJesus,...Andbeingfoundin appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient tothe point of death, even the deathofthecross.Philippians2:3,5,8 AHelpfromtheMinistryoftheApostleJohn Itisnoteasytofindabelieverwhoisfaithful, whocallsonthenameoftheLordanddoesnotwant toproducehisownministry.Forexample,ifaperson knows the Bible and prays for someone, and that person gets healed, and he prays for another two or three,suddenly peoplestarttoexalthim,sayingthat he is good, and he is blessed. People exalt him so much that he starts to think that he really is a good man. Then he establishes his own ministry because heisverycapableandisablessedone. He starts with a small house very humble. Then it starts to increase, to grow, until he wants to
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createachurch. Everybodyhasachurch. Whydont I have one? Next he creates a denomination with a ministry(3John910).Itisnoteasytofindabeliever who has talent, becomes successful and deniesall of this; a believer who does not want to create a personal ministry and prefers to remain in the Lord, onthegroundoftheLord(1Peter5:13). Praise the Lord that we are now together. We are for the name of the Lord, the word of the Lordandwedonotwanttohaveanymixture.Wedo not want to mix things ofthe world with the church. WewanttofollowtheLordsway(Philippians2:28). This is very good! Praise the Lord! We need to consecrate ourselves to go on in this way so that thistestimonycanbecomestrongandbepropagated to all the countries and nations so that the end can come. Praise the Lord! We are the generation that needs to be adjusted by the ministry of John and completethework. Key word: We are the generation that will complete thework. Yourkeyword: Question: How to have a strong testimony to propagatethegospel?
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Week04:TheMirroroftheOldTestament Thursday
Scripturereading:James1:2224;2Tm2:21;Matthew16:2425; Hebrews4:13;Galatians6:5

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceivingyourselves.Forifanyoneisahearerofthe word and not a doer, he is like aman observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of manhewas.James1:2224 TheSpiritualMirrors To be adjusted means to realize that we make mistakes. It is not easy to see our mistakes. Whyisitnoteasy?Itisnoteasybecauseoureyesdo not look inwardly, but rather they look outwardly. We look at others, not ourselves especially our back. Canwe see behind us?If we make a mistake at our back, how can we realize that we did it? Somebodyneedstohelpuslikeamirror.Amirroris a very great help to us. It helps us to see ourselves. Butmandoesnotliketolookinthemirror.Hewalks past the mirror quickly because he does not like to
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see his mistakes. There are some brothers who do not have a mirror and dont want to have one, because a mirror is for seeing yourself. We do not use a mirror to see others; we can see others by ourselves. A mirror is to see ourselves (James 1:2224). We need a spiritual mirror. How can God help us to see our mistakes? God wants to reveal something to us by showing us the mistakes of others.Wesay,Youmadeamistake!butinfactthe Lord is presenting a mirror to us: This is for you! Firstly you need to see your own situation, and then you will be able to help others. John's ministry is to present a mirror to us in order for us to realize our condition, our situation. Then we can fix it, and the Lordcanhaveawaythroughus(2Tm2:21). However, because our soul life is so strong, we do not want to be accused of having made a mistake. Sometimes we do not like to hear from someone that we need to clean our pants in the back.Wedonotadmitit.Thisisbecauseofoursoul life.Someonecomesandtellsus thatourback is not okay,butwedonotliketohearit.TheLordusesour wife to correct us. Sometimes they are the only one who can help us. No one else can help us, just our
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wife. She says, You are not all right. Then we become unhappy, angry, and say that we are right. Thisisbecauseofoursoullife(Matthew16:2425). Now is the time for our situation to be exposed. The ministry of John is to expose our situation so that the Lord can repair the holes in our life: in our personal life, in our service in the church, and in the work. First is the matter of our life. We needtogobeforeGod.Areyoureadytobeexposed? It is not easy to say, Yes! We are afraid to say, Yes. We think that we are right we have no mistakes. But the Lord comes to say, No, you have made mistakes. You are not right. I want to help you.Arewereadytobehelped?OhLordJesus! IhopetheLordcanfindawayinthespiritto expose all of us (Hebrews 4:13). We usually put the blame on someone else. If the church in our city is not good, we usually put the blame on somebody else: This is not my problem this is that brothers problem; or it is the elders problem; this is that brother's problem; or this is a problem of the brothers in Nairobi. They have to do something aboutit.Weliketoputtheblameonothers,butthe Lord comes to us to show us our situation (Galatians

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Week04:TheMirroroftheOldTestament

Friday
Scripturereading:Genesis7:1;11:4;12:13; 41:41;50:26;Hebrews9:14,11:56;2Timothy2:22;2Peter2:5

Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord outofapureheart.(2Timothy2:22) TheMirroroftheOldTestament(1) We can divide the Old Testament in many different ways, into many different generations. We can refer to the generation of Adam and the generation of Noah. Why can we separate the generation of Adam from the generation of Noah? This is possible because of the flood that came and finished theline. Onlythe family of Noah survived.It wasanewbeginning(Genesis7:1). Then we have the generation of Noah until the kingdom of Nimrod. Noah was in charge of establishing the kingdomofGod,but the kingdom of Goddidnotcome.Whatkind ofkingdom came? The kingdom of Nimrod. This was not the seed of God, but rather the seed of Babel; the tower of Babel.

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They did not exalt Gods name. They exalted the nameofman(Genesis11:4). Then God had a new beginning. He said to Abraham, Come out of your land, your parents house,yourrelativeshouseandgotothelandthatI will show you. In this land I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you through this nation. (Genesis12:13)Herewehavethreethings:theland, the nation and the blessing. This was a new beginning. We can call this the generation of promise, with Abraham, his descendant Isaac, the twelvetribesandJoseph. Joseph becametheruleroverEgypt (Genesis 41:41). This is a picture of God's plan: a man of God ruling over the world. Praise the Lord! Was this good?Yes,itwasverygood.ButJosephdiedandwas put inside a coffin in Egypt (Genesis 50:26). This is how Genesis ends. Can you imagine this? Genesis is the beginning, the book of the beginning. But the conclusion of the book of the beginning is an end. Is it a beginning or an end? In our eyes it looks like an end. But in Gods eyes it was not an end; it was a beginning. Why? It was a beginning because it was theseedoftheministry.

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In the book of Genesis we can see Gods entireplan.Wehavethegenerationofsurvivors.Itis not easy to live on this earth. How can we survive, fighting against Satan, his fallen angels, the demons, sin, and the world the entire system that is against man? How can we survive? God has given us somethingforoursurvival.ItisthebloodofGod,the blood of the Lamb, to remove what separates us fromGod(Hebrews9:14). Then wecan be one with Him. We also need to walk with God. It is very dangerous to walk alone onthisearth.Itisdangeroustowalkalone;wetakea big risk. Do not walk alone! We need to walk with God. We can walk with God by calling on His name, Oh Lord Jesus! (Hebrews 11:56; 2 Timothy 2:22) Then we can become mature with God by calling on the name of the Lord, Oh Lord Jesus! But the Lord came to judge this earth with a flood. The flood was Gods judgment. How can we survive this flood? We need something that is Godproof; then we can survivetheflood. There are some materials that are water prooflikeaplasticbottle.Ifwesealitandputitina river,thewatercannotgetintoitbecauseitiswater proof. We need something Godproof. How can we
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make something Godproof? We need something from God. We need Gods ark to protect us against God's judgment. The judgment is against the earth, butweareontheearth.DoyourealizethattheLord is coming to judge this earth? How can we be protected? We will be protected if we are inside the ark.ThearkisbuiltbythewordofGod(2Peter2:5). Thisisthegenerationofsurvivors. Keyword:WeneedwhatisGodproof. Yourkeyword: Question: Why we can seea beginning at the end of thebookofGenesis?

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Week04:TheMirroroftheOldTestament Saturday
Scripturereading:1Timothy1:18;2Timothy2:34;1Corinthians 14:8;Hebrews3:5;Joshua11:23;1Samuel15:2223,28

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done inthemeeknessofwisdom.James3:13 TheMirroroftheOldTestament(2) Next we have the generation of promise: Abraham,Isaac,Jacob,andJoseph. After this we have the generation of the conquerors. We need an army with Moses, Aaron and Joshua to prepare us. Do you realize that we need to be an army? To preach the gospel, we need to be an army. The church needs to be an army (1 Timothy 1:18; 2 Timothy 2:34). How can we be an army? The Lord needs to establish a leadership, a proper leadership with spiritual vision and the leading of the word. The leader must be someone who is very clearabout where he is going. Imagine if Moses did not know what to do and was not clear about where to go. The people would ask Moses, Where are we going? He would answer, I dont
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know.Moses,whatshouldwedo?Idonotknow wait.Wherearewegoing,Moses?Idontknow. Let us try this way. Next week we will take another way. We will try to go somewhere with these two million people. Which way are we following, Moses?I dont know Iamtrying. Canyoufollow someone like this; someone who is not clear about whereishegoing?(1Corinthians14:8). But, praise the Lord that Moses received a vision, and he knew what he was doing. He was building a tabernacle through which God would speak to His people and lead them to the good land (Hebrews 3:5). This is a proper leadership. Aaron knew how to educate the people, and Joshua was prepared to take the leadtodefeat the enemy. They establishedthekingdom,andtheytookpossessionof theland(Joshua11:23).PraisetheLord! Then the time of the judges and the kings came. What do we find? At least there were the builders. Samuel anointed King Saul, but Saul was disqualified because he was fleshly, and the Lord replacedhimwithDavid(1Samuel15:2223,28). David had a heart that was according Gods heart (Acts 13:22). He received revelation; he prepared the material; he propagated the kingdom;
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he prepared everything. But, when the time came to buildthehousetheLord,theLordstoppedhim:You cannot build My house because you have shed too much blood. He was very violent. Do you realize that if we are violent we cannot build the house of God? We need to be transformed from David to Solomon(Acts7:4647).OhLordJesus! We need to be peaceful and harmonize situations. Let us look at an example: When we receive some bad news,we become very violent. Oh Lord Jesus! We become angry, especially if we have good reason to. We may think: I am right this is unrighteous! Then we become like David: I will kill these people. I will judge them now. But this is not the time to kill people; this is the time to build the house. We need to go to the Lord; Oh Lord! Help me; give me wisdom to harmonize to be inclusive, to receive people for the building up of the house of God.OhLordJesus! ThisistobelikeSolomonandtousewisdom, Gods wisdom for Gods sake (James 3:13). Yes, we need to have a heart for the Lord, but if we want to build the house we need to learn to deny ourselves, include people and trust in the Lord. The Lord will haveaway(Galatians6:1;2Timothy2:2425).
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Keyword:Wisdomtoinclude. Yourkeyword: Question: What is necessary for us to become an army?

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Week04:TheMirroroftheOldTestament Sunday
Scripturereading:1Kings9:67;Deuteronomy12:1112; Revelation3:8;1Corinthians4:2

Moreover it is required in stewards that one be foundfaithful.1Corinthians4:2 TheMirroroftheOldTestament(3) There were builders, but they forsook the wordofGod.ThisbeganwithSolomon,whodecided to fill the land with things from Egypt. He forgot about Gods word, and this damaged the testimony. Ruin and destruction came, and they lost everything. Theylostthecity,thewallsweredestroyed,theylost the land, and the people went into captivity (1 Kings 9:67). This is the lost generation. If we forsake the word ofGod wewill lose everything: ourenjoyment, ourtestimony, our family andourfuture. This is why we are in recovery. We have been brought to recovery. We are in Jerusalem, which represents the nameoftheLord,thewordoftheLordandtheSpirit. Praise the Lord! We need to come to this ground, and then the Lord will have a way to recover us (Deuteronomy12:1112).
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We must realize that we have many things that need to be recovered. Our propagation of the gospel needs to be recovered; our testimony needs toberecovered;ourmeetingsneedtoberecovered; our offerings need to be recovered. Firstly we need to come to the proper ground: the name of the Lord and the word of the Lord this is the Spirit (Revelation3:8).PraisetheLord! Do you feel that we are on this ground? Are you sure we are on this ground? Is our ground the name of the Lord? Are we here enjoying something other than the Lords word? Are we bringing other things in here? No! We are coming back to the properground.Thisisthebasisforrestoration.Jesus isLord!IttakestimefortheLordtorecoverusandall thesepoints. In the Old Testament the recovery became weak. They could not propagate, but at least they survived until the Lord came. They survived because of the prophets, who represent the overcomers. The prophetsarethelineoftheovercomers.Aprophetis someonewhoisveryfaithfultotheLordsname,the LordswordandtotheSpirit(1Corinthians 4:2).This is the generation of the prophets. It is the last generationintheOldTestament.
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Keyword:FaithfulltotheLord. Yourkeyword: Question: What is the proper ground to recover the testimony?

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Week05:TheMirroroftheNewTestament Monday
Scripturereading:Matthew4:23;Mark6:23,6

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of diseaseamongthepeople.Matthew4:23 LeavingReligiontoFollowtheLord The prophets provided a way for the Lord to come. When the Lord came He did not find many people waiting for Him. He did find a small group some families, like Joseph and Mary. They and some others were faithfully waiting for the Lords coming. This became a picture of the New Testament. Today we need to come to the line of the overcomers. We needtosurvive,weneedtobethoseofthepromise, we need to be conquerors, we need to be builders, we need to be restorers, we need to be prophets, andthentheLordcancome. What was man's situation when the Lord came? Mathew chapter 4 verse 23 says: And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the
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kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. The Jewish meeting place was empty. What were they exalting and worshiping?Theywereworshipingsomethingempty, because God was in Christ. If they had had real understanding, they would have closed that meeting place and followed the Lord. But they continued going there to read the Scriptures and worship God. Godwasoutside.Godwaswalkingaroundwhilethey were reading the Scriptures and declaring that God was with them. But God was outside; God was in Christ.Christwasgoingplaceswiththedisciples,and the Jews were in their meeting place considering; Who is this man that is going everywhere? That man was God. They would think: No! We are exalting God! But God was not with them in their meeting place; He was outside. They became empty. Thisisreligion. ReligionissomethingthatyoudoforGodbut apart from God. They were full of religious things, but they were empty. The reality was in Christ. Do you believe that this is happening today? It does happen today. People are reading the Scriptures and singing hymns, but in many of these meeting places the people have no understanding concerning the
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gospel of the kingdom. They are reading but without understanding. But the Lord had mercy; He went to their meeting place to preach to them. They did not understand (Mark 6:23,6). Then the Lord left them and they lost their opportunity. One day the Lord came to us and presented the truth to us and our eyes were opened and we decided to come out of theJewishmeetingplacestofollowtheLord. Keyword:Tounderstandthegospelofthekingdom. Yourkeyword: Question: Why the meeting place of the Jews was empty?

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Week05:TheMirroroftheNewTestament

Tuesday
Scripturereading:Matthew4:24;1Tessalonians5:23,2Timothy 2:21

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our LordJesusChrist.1Thessalonians5:23 TheCompleteHealing The Lord healed every kind of disease and sickness. Because man is fallen, we have different kinds of diseases and sicknesses. There are three kinds: sickness of the body, of the soul and of the spirit. Mathewchapterfourverse24says:Andthe reportconcerning Himwent out into allof Syria;and they brought to Him all who were ill, those afflicted with various diseases and torments and those possessed by demons and epileptics and paralytics; and He healed them. Here we see three kinds of problems. Onehasmany demons.Thisis one kind of problem. If someone is involved with a curse, witchcraft, he will become filled with demons; the
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demons will take possession of him. He will lose the ability to make decisions because he is demon possessed. Why did he become demon possessed? Its because he is involved with a curse, witchcraft, andevilspirits.Theresultofthisinvolvementistobe demonpossessed. Another problem is to be crazy (another translationsayslunatic). Thisisnotaproblem with demons; it is a problem in the mind. It is not demon possession; it is a disease of the mind. If you try to cast demons out of someone who has a disease in their mind, they will become worse. They will probably not allow a believer to approach them anymore because of their very bad experience. It is one problem to be demon processed, and it is another problem to be crazy. This is a mental problem;itisadisease. Today we have many different kinds of mental diseases which are not demon possessions. However, the Lord healed all kinds of diseases. Sometimes someone wants to cast demons out of a person who has a mental problem. Many people today want to do this. There are many people who do not sleep well and someone may come and say that that person has a problem with demons. This is
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not a problem of demons it is a problem of the mind. The Lord can heal them, but it does not mean it is a case of demon possession. The Lord said that there are different problems. We, as the generation of Jesus Christ, have been charged with healing everyone with the Lord Himself, by bringing them to theShepherd,totheflock,andtofollowtheLord. Anotherpersonhadaproblemwithhisbody; he could not walk, he was a paralytic. This is a problem in the body. Not all problems related to diseases are demon possessions. Who said this? The Lord Jesus said it. But the Lord can heal everyone He is the solution. The generation of Jesus Christ came to bring us back to God, to heal us fully in our spirit, our body and our soul through the Word of God and by bringing us to the proper church life (1 Thessalonians 5:23). The Lord came to heal man. He came to heal his vessel and prepare his vessel to receive God through repentance, confession and calling(2Timothy2:21). Keyword:Healing. Yourkeyword: Question:WhichproblemstheLordwashealing?

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Week05:TheMirroroftheNewTestament Wednesday
Scripture reading: John 20:22, 14:2526; Acts 2:4, 1:89, 4:18, 2:42,46

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, andbringtoyourremembranceallthingsthatIsaid toyou.John14:26 FollowingtheInvisibleLord Then the Lord prepared the group that repented andbelievedinHimforthecontinuation of His work. The Lord accomplished our redemption without any mistakes. The earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus is that He healed us, called us, saved us and prepared us for the continuation of His work. This continuation is through the Spirit. Praise the LordforthetimeoftheSpirit! After the resurrection the disciples received the Spirit (John 20:22; Acts 2:4). Then we have the twelve apostles. They received a strong commission to follow the Lord (Acts 1:89). But now they must doitinvisibly(John14:2526).Itisonethingtofollow the Lord visibly, and it is another to follow Him
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invisibly.TheytooktheleadtobewiththeLordinan invisible way and to follow the Lord invisibly. They alsodidnotteachthebelieversaccordingMoses,but accordingJesusChrist(Acts4:18). Thiswasabigchange.TheJewsusedtogoto theJewishplaces toreadfromMosesandfollowthe customs of Moses. But now that they believed in Jesus, they received the Spirit and needed to follow the teaching of the apostles with another kind of practice the fellowship and the teaching of the apostles, prayer, and the Lords Table with the breaking of bread. This is the New Testament practicethatwasintroduced(Acts2:42,46). Keyword:TofollowtheLordthroughtheSpirit. Yourkeyword: Question: What was the practice of the church accordingtothenewwaybroughtbytheapostles?

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Week05:TheMirroroftheNewTestament Thursday
Scripturereading:Acts2:46,5:42,20:20,Romans16:35,1 Corinthians16:19,Colossians4:15

And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.Acts5:42 TheMeetingsontheHouses The believers had big meetings and small meetings,butmostofthemeetingsweresmallmeetings inhouses.Accordingtoourunderstandingtoday,tohave a church requires that we have a meeting place. Many peoplethinklikethis.Areyouachurch?Yes,wearea church. Then,whereisyourchurch?No,wedonot haveameetingplace.What?Youareachurch,butyou donthaveachurch?Whydotheyspeaklikethis?They do not understand the Bible. When we believe, we are the church. The church is the believers, so we are the church.Thechurchishereinthisbuilding,butwhenwe gotoourhouse,thechurchisinourhouse. In the beginning they did not have meeting placesotherthanthetempleofSolomon,whichdidnot
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belongtothem.Theywenttheretoreceivetheteaching oftheapostlesandtopreachthegospeltotheJews.But thepracticeofthechurchwasnotinbuildings,itwasin the houses (Acts 2:46, 5:42, 20:20, Romans 16:35, 1 Corinthians16:19,Colossians4:15). Whenweareinahousewecannotbetogether with too many people. The maximum that we can be withisfifteen.Thenwecanallfunctionandallofuscan share. We can get to know one another and we can shepherdoneanother.Butwhentherearefivehundred, only a few can function. One will probably share; the otherswillsing;wewilloffer;andthenwewillfinish.Can we get to know one another when there are five hundred? You can only greet one another. If you sit besidethesamepersonthreetimesinoneyear,youare blessed.ThisisthethirdtimeIhavesatbesideyouthis is a great blessing. I think I know your name. Do you think this is the church life? Can we shepherd one anotherinthisway?HowdoestheLordhelpustoknow eachotherandtoshepherdoneanother?Inthehouses. Keyword:Housemeetings Yourkeyword: Question:Howtobesttakecareofoneanother?

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Week05:TheMirroroftheNewTestament Friday
Scripturereading:John4:2324;Acts5:12,25,2:45,4:3435; Matthew16:1819

Butthehouriscoming,andnowis,whenthetrue worshiperswillworshiptheFatherinspiritand truth;fortheFatherisseekingsuchtoworshipHim. GodisSpirit,andthosewhoworshipHimmust worshipinspiritandtruth.John4:2324 TheProperPlaceofWorship Houses cannot fit too many people, but we can cometogether.Wecanshare,wecansing,wecanprayfor oneanotherandinthiswaywecanbuildoneanotherup. This was a big change. Why? In the Old Testament they usedtogotothesameplaceallthetime.ButintheNew Testament, the physical place has been replaced by our spirit (John 4:2324). The place to worship God is not physical;itisspiritual,itisourspirit.Weneedtolearntouse ourspirittoenjoythenameoftheLordandHisWordwhen wecometogether. This was the beginning. In the beginning the churchusedhouses,thehousesofthesaints.Theydidnot buymeetingplacestomeet.TheyusedSolomonstemple to have conferences and to hear the teaching of the
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apostles(Acts5:12,25).Forexample,todaywearehavinga bigmeeting,butwedonotneedtobuythisschoolwecan renttheschooltouseit.Ifthisplacewouldbelongtous, who would take care of it? We would need someone to take care of it, and we would have to pay for the maintenance.WearegoingtoberapturedbytheLord.He will come and this school will not go with us. This is the understandingofthechurch.Thechurchdoesnotbelong tothisearth(Matthew16:1819). We do not need material possessions for the churchlife.Donotthinkthatweneedthem,becausewedo not.Ofcourse,itisallrightifwehavethem,butwedonot needthem,becauseinthebeginningthechurchlifedidnot havematerialpossessions.Theysoldtheirpossessionsand gavethemoneytotheapostlesforthepropagationandto helpthosewho didnthaveanything (Acts2:45,4:3435). Whydidtheydothis?TheyexpectedtheLordtoreturnin theirgeneration.TheSpiritgavethesethingstous.Ifwe arefulloftheSpirit,wedontcareaboutanythingelse.We areonlysurvivingonthisearth,becauseoureyesareonthe Lord.Thiswasthebeginningofthechurchlife. Keyword:Thespiritualwaytoworship. Yourkeyword: Question:Isitamustforachurchtohaveameetinghall?
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Week05:TheMirroroftheNewTestament Saturday
Scripturereading:Acts8:1;John4:9;Matthew15:3,6;Acts8:5, 1416,25

ThenPhilipwentdowntothecityofSamariaand preachedChristtothem...Andtherewasgreatjoy inthatcity.Acts8:5,8 TheRejectionbyTradition The church failed in the matter of propagation. The Lord allowed persecution to come inorderforthegospeltobepropagated(Acts8:1).It was all right for the gospel to go to Judea because therewereonlyJewsthere.ButtoenterintoSamaria was a problem because of their tradition. The Jews did not speak to the Samaritans. Do you remember when the Lord found the Samaritan woman? She asked the LordwhyHewasspeaking toher,because she was a Samaritan (John 4:9). The Jews did not speak to Samaritans. But the Lord preached to that woman. Whenthegospelneededtobepropagatedit waspropagated amongthe Jews. But when ithad to go to the Samaritans, the Jews did not go because they did not speak to the Samaritans. How can you
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preachthegospeltosomeoneifyouarenotallowed to speak to them? Can you present the gospel to a neighbor if you are not allowed to speak to him? Whodidnotallowthemtospeak?Wasitthewordof God or their tradition? It was their tradition. The disciples received a commission to break that tradition (Matthew 15:3,6), but they encountered resistance. Oh Lord Jesus! But praise the Lord that Philip went to Samaria and preached the gospel to the Samaritans, and Peter and John went there to receivethemintothefellowship(Acts8:5,1416,25). Keyword:Notraditions. Yourkeyword: Question:HowthegospelreachedtheSamaritans?

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Week05:TheMirroroftheNewTestament Sunday

Scripturereading:Acts11:23,10:14,44;Matthew17:5;Acts 11:1920,2526;2Corinthians12:24

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My beloved Son, in whomIamwellpleased.HearHim!Matthew17:5 TheRejectionbytheLord Whenthetimecametopreachthegospelto the Gentiles, this was too much for them (Acts 11:23). It was all right to speak to the Samaritans, but the Gentiles were like pigs. Jews do not eat pigs. Howcan aJewenter into the house ofaGentile and speak to him? Then the Lord called Peter and commissioned him, Rise up, kill and eat! Peter agreed, Okay, I will rise up. I will kill, but I will not eat.Hesaid,BynomeansLord!Ihavenevereaten this kind of food (Acts 10:14). What did Peter do? He resisted. He was resisting God because of his tradition, because of his old understanding. When the Lord was talking to Moses and Elijah, God said, Here is my Son! (Matthew 17:5) If you would ask
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Moses, Are we allowed to eat unclean animals? Moses would answer, No! It is not allowed. According to the law I have received from God, we are not allowed to eat unclean animals. But if you would ask the Lord Jesus, He would answer, No! Thatwasinthepast.WhatIhavemadeclean,donot make unclean. Now these animals are clean. I am God;Ihavetherighttosayifitiscleanornot.Itused to be unclean, but it is not anymore. You eat! The voice that Peter was listening to was the voice of Moses and it was stronger than the Lords voice. At thispointtheLorddidnotacceptthis. Yes, in fact, Peter did obey. He went and preached the gospelto the Gentiles (Acts10:44),but hedidnothavetheabilitytotaketheleadamonghis fellow workers to propagate the gospel (Acts 11:19). SowhatdidtheLorddo?HecalledSaulofTarsusand commissioned him to go and propagate the gospel among the Gentiles. Then the Lord gave Paul more visionandrevelation(Acts11:20,2526;2Corinthians 12:24). Keyword:Tohaveanewundestanding. Yourkeyword: Question:WhywasPeterrejectedtocontinuethework?
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Week06:TheBaseofJohn'sMinistry

Monday
Scripturereading:2Corinthians6:1617;Ephesians1:314,5:18; Romans12:11;1Peter2:5,9

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,..." Ephesians5:18 Paul'sVision The Lord gave Paul more vision and revelation. What kind of vision? The vision concerning Christ. Who in the New Testament presents Christ to us in a clear way? The Apostle Paul. In Second Corinthians Paul said, If you know Christ according totheflesh, this issomething of the past. I know Christ according to the Spirit (2 Corinthians 6:1617) We need to know Christ according the Spirit. Paul advanced more than the others. They knew Christ according the flesh, but Paul knew Christ according to the Spirit. The Lord came to Paul and opened to him the revelation of who God is, who Christ is, and who the Spirit is (Ephesians1:314),howtoenjoytheSpirit(Ephesians 5:18), and how to serve God in the spirit (Romans 12:11). In the Old Testament they needed to go to
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the temple to be a priest, but in the New Testament we can all serve God in the spirit. We are a royal priesthoodbecauseoftheSpirit(1Peter2:5,9).

Keyword:ServingGodinthespirit. Yourkeyword: Question:HowdidPaulknowtheLord?

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Week06:TheBaseofJohn'sMinistry

Tuesday
Scripture reading: Matthew 16:1819, 18:1718; Acts 2:21,42; Ephesians 1:2223, 5:2920; Colossians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 12:2728;Ephesians2:1415;2:22;5:2527,3132;6:11

AndHeputallthingsunderHisfeet,andgaveHim tobeheadoverallthingstothechurch,whichisHis body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Ephesians1:2223 Paul'sVisionabouttheChurch The Lord also used Paul to speak about the church. The Lord Jesus spoke about the church. How many times did He speak about the church in the gospels? Only two times: in Matthew sixteen and in Matthew eighteen (Matthew 16:1819, 18:1718). The Lord said He would build His church. But what is the church? The church is the kingdom. And what is thekingdom?Thekingdomisthechurch. On chapter 16, what the Lord spoke about the church was this: If you want to come after Me, deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me (v.24). This is related to the practice of the church. The disciples didnt know about the practice. If you would ask them to explain the church, they would
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tell you: The church is the kingdom. We have to build up the church by following the Lord, denying our self, and taking up our cross. We just know this much.WeneedtofollowHim. Later, in Matthew 18, the Lord spoke about the church again: If you have a problem with your brother that you cannot resolve, go to another brother, present the situation and if he cannot resolveit,present ittothechurch. Butwhere isthe church?IftwoorthreemeetinMyname,Iwillbein theirmidst(v.20).Isthisthechurch?Yes!Thisisthe church. The church is where you have two or three meetinginHisname.Butiftherearepeoplemeeting inanothernameevenifthereareonethousandit is not the church. The church is only when we are meetinginthenameoftheLord.Ifwearemeetingin His name, He is in our midst. But if we are one thousandpeopleandmeetinginanothername,Heis not in our midst and we do not have the testimony. This is one of the points the Lord is presenting to us in these days. But, how can we put thisintopractice? Theapostleshelpedustocallonthenameof the Lord, to have the teaching and the fellowship of the apostles, to break bread and to pray (Acts
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2:21,42). However, their help was limited. But praise theLordthatHecalledtheApostlePaulandgavehim morerevelationregardingthechurch. The church is the Body of Christ (Ephesians 1:2223, 5:2920; Colossians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 12:2728). It is the New Man (Ephesians 2:1415). This New Man is not Greek, it is not Jewish, it is not rich, and it is not poor. The New Man is just Christ! The separation has been removed on the cross. When the Lord was killed, He was creating the New Man. Also, thechurch isthedwelling place of God in Spirit (Ephesians 2:22). When we are in theSpirit we are in the dwelling place of God. And the church is the Bride of Christ, which is being prepared (Ephesians 5:2527,3132). It is also a Warrior (Ephesians 6:11). On the side of love, the church is theBride,butonthesideoftheenemy,thechurchis theWarrior.PraisetheLord!Thisisthechurch. Keyword:Paul'svisionaboutthechurch. Yourkeyword: Question: How to practice the points the Lord is presentingtous?

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Week06:TheBaseofJohn'sMinistry Wednesday
Scripturereading:Ephesians5:1821;Ephesians6:111;Colossians 3:16;Hebrews4:2;Titus1:59

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with graceinyourheartstotheLord.(Colossians3:16) TheLessonsfromPaul'sMinistry Paul helped the believers to practice the church.Forexample,weneedtobeinthespirit.Inthe meetingsweneed to befilledwiththeSpirit,speaking andsingingpsalmsandhymnsandspiritualsongs.Also, inordertobefilledwiththespiritweneedtogiveglory to God in every place and submit to one another (Ephesians5:1821).Wehavethechurchmeetings,the family life, the social life and spiritual warfare (Ephesians6:111).Thisischurchlife. How much time are you in church meetings duringtheweek?TheLordsTabletwoorthreehours; the ministry meeting another two or three hours (thats six hours); the prayer meeting another two hours (for it to be two hours, it must be a very strong
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prayer meeting). So, three hours to enjoy the table, threehourstoenjoytheword,twohourstopray;that totals eight hours. If you have a family group, you will be with them at least once a week for two hours. So, threeplusthreeplustwoplustwowehavetenhours. Howmanyhoursdowehaveinaweek?Wehaveone hundred andsixtyeighthoursperweek.Ifyouuseten hoursforthemeetings,whatareyoudoingoutsidethe meetingstherestofthetime? Thechurchlifeisalifeinthespirit.Ifwearein the spirit, the church can be built up. If we are not in thespirit,wearelosingtimeandGodislosingtime.At leastduringthemeetingswecanputfuelintoourspirit. We need the Spirit in our spirit. The Spirit comes through the word. We praise the Lord for the church meetings.Theyaretheplacewherewecanfillourtank byreceivingthewordinourspirit(Colossians3:16). The fuel has to be put into the tank. It is not goodenoughtojustheartheword.Whatwehearhas toenterintoourheartandthenreachourspirit.Ifthe worddoesnotreachourspirit,itmeansthatthefuelis not in the tank. We have a car, but instead of putting the fuel in the tank, the worker puts the fuel all over you. No! We need to put the fuel into the tank, and then the carcanwork. The Spiritinthe wordneedsto
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be put into our spirit. This iswhy we need to hearthe word and mix it with our faith by exercising our spirit, saying Amen! and taking the word with prayer (Hebrews4:2). Wecanfillourtank,especiallyinthemeetings, but what kind of life do we have when we go home? Whatkindoflifedowehavewhenwegotowork?The churchlifeisnotonlymeetings.Wehavethefamilylife, the social life and spiritual warfare. We have to fight againstthekingdomofdarkness. We praise the Lord that the Apostle Paul helpedustoseeallthisandtoestablishatestimony,a pattern,sothatallthebelieverscanpracticethisvision. He also received a burden to perfect and confirm the leadership in order to be able to preach the word of God,topresent theleading andprotect thefellowship (Titus1:59).Welearnallthisfromtheteachingofthe ApostlePaul. Keyword:Churchlifeisalifeinthespirit. Yourkeyword: Question:Whythemeetingsaresoimportant?

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Week06:TheBaseofJohn'sMinistry Thursday
Scripturereading:2Timothy1:15;2Peter3:15;Revelation2:45

Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its placeunlessyourepent.Revelation2:5 TheProblemwiththeFirstGeneration The vision from Pauls twelve epistles was wonderful, but the result was not good. All in Asia turned away from him (2 Timothy 1:15). What was theproblem?Wasitinthevision?No,thevisionwas nottheproblem. Wasitinthe truth? Isthereabook of Pauls that is not correct? No, the problem is not withthevision.Itisinhowtoapplythevision. Then the Apostle Peter came to confirm Pauls speaking in order to explain the matter of the salvation of the soul: the matter of maturity, the growthinlife(2Peter3:15).OhLordJesus! The result was that after the first generation ofthechurchtheylefttheirfirstlove.Ifweleaveour first love, the Lord will remove our lampstand and give it to others (Revelation 2:45). What does the
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first love mean? The issue of our first love is our consecration. When we are in our first love we do not think about anything else; we just want to serve theLordandwejustwanttooffer.Butwhenwelose our first love, we lose our consecration and we lose our offering we stop offering. We need to recover ourfirstlove. Keyword:Theneedofrecoveringthefirstlove. Yourkeyword: Question:Whatdoesitmeantolosethefirstlove?

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Week06:TheBaseofJohn'sMinistry

Friday
Scripturereading:Revelation3:16;1:1

TheRevelationofJesusChrist,whichGodgaveHim to show His servantsthings which must shortly takeplace.AndHesentandsignifieditbyHisangel toHisservantJohn,...Revelation1:1 TheRevelationGiventoJohn The first commission given to John was to mendthenet.Thisistorecoverourfirstlove.Weare all here, and the Lord needs to recover our first love so that we can consecrate ourselves to Him. The resultwillbeagoodandstrongtestimonyinourcity, andthenthepropagationofthegospelwillprogress. It will be strong and we will see fruit. But if our first love is not recovered, we will become lukewarm (Revelation3:16).Wewillnotbehotorcoldwewill be just there. Time will pass and we will not have fruit. We will not be perfected and the result will be that we are replaced. The Lord does not want to replaceus,Hewantstorecoverus. Praise the Lord for the generation of Jesus Christ: for the work of the Lord and of the twelve
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apostles, the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Peter. They made mistakes, not in the vision, but in their service, especially in how to apply the word. This is thecommissionofApostleJohn.Allthesepointsthe conditionofthechurch,thefutureofthechurch,the future of this earth, the Lords coming all these points were presented to John by the Lord (Revelation1:1).Thisisawonderfulrevelation. Keyword:TheLordwantstorecover,nottoreplace. Yourkeyword: Question: Where was the problem on the ministries oftheApostlesbeforeJohn?

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Week06:TheBaseofJohn'sMinistry Saturday
Scripturereading:Revelation4:1;Revelation19:710

...Buthesaidtome,Seethatyoudonotdothat!I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Revelation19:10b TheTestimonyofJesus The Lord called John and opened a door for Him. He said, Come here and I will show you the thingsthatwilltakeplace(Revelation4:1).AndJohn went. He looked and saw the throne of God, the throne of the Lamb, the book with the seven seals, the judgment of God, and the judgment of the great Babylon.ButwhenhesawthemarriageoftheLamb, he was beside himself. The marriage of Christ with his wife this is marvelous! This is wonderful! Do you know what he did? He decided to worship the angel (Revelation 19:10): Oh dear angel, the revelation you presented to me about the church, the judgment, the judgment of the great Babylon

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but the revelation of the marriage of the Lamb this istoomuchforme.Youarethebestangel. The Apostle John was very mature and experienced. He knew the situation of Paul and Peter.NowtheLordrevealedmoretohim,andwhat didhedo?Heworshipedtheangel.Theangeldidnot say, Thank you John. There is no problem with worshipping me. I am not a man of God; I am an angel of God. It would be a problem for you to worship a man, but but there is no problem with worshipping an angel. You can worship me. Let us seewhattheangeldid. ThisisJohn'sministry.Doyouknowwhatthe first problem in the church was? It was in worshipping the messenger. We need to worship God. If we worship the messenger we will not fulfill the spirit ofthe prophecy, and this word cannot give life to us. It will just be knowledge to us, and knowledgekills. Revelation 19:79 says, Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine line, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. And
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hesaidtome,Write,Blessedaretheywhoarecalled to the marriage dinner of the Lamb. And he said to me.ThesearethetruewordsofGod. WhatdidJohndoinhismaturity?Hewasnot a new one; he was mature. Let us read verse ten, AndIfellbeforehisfeettoworshiphim.Andhesaid to me John bowed down and said, Thank you, angel. This is wonderful! I am full of thanks to you. Thank you, angel! He did this. But what was the reaction of the angel? Let us continue reading verse ten, Do not do this. I am your fellow slave and a fellowslaveofyourbrotherswhohavethetestimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is thespiritoftheprophecy. A man of God who is really a man of God cannot understand this. If John, inhis maturity, after receiving the revelation, reacted by worshipping the angelwhataboutus?Arewebetter than John? Do you think our reaction would be different than Johns? Imagine we are receiving revelation from theword,andthegreatestrevelationisthemarriage of the Lamb. It is great and it is beautiful because it manifeststhekingdom.Themarriageofthekingdom is the manifestation of the kingdom. Now the millennium will be revealed. But the angel said Do
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not do this. I am a servant just like you. Do not worship anyone; only God. The spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus Christ. The spirit of the prophecyistotestifyofandworshipJesusChrist. Keyword:TotestifyaboutJesus,notthemessenger. Yourkeyword: Question:Whatwasthefirstproblemofthechurch?

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Week06:TheBaseofJohn'sMinistry

Sunday
Scripturereading:Revelation22:69

Then he said to me, 'See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of thisbook.WorshipGod.'Revelation22:9 TheBaseofJohn'sMinistry The angel reacted and did not allow John to worship him. A brother who takes the lead in the church by bringing the word and revelation is responsiblefornotallowingpeopletoexalthim.How can he do this? John shows us: he did not uplift his nameinhiswritings.Wecannotfindhisname.Why? Because he had been corrected by the angel. After seeing the revelation, he fell down to worship the angel,themessenger.Thishasbecomeabigproblem throughout history, because the ones who brought the revelation received exaltation. If we exalt the messenger,weloselife.Ifweloselife,weloseheart. Finally, the same thing happened in Revelation chapter twentytwo, when the Lord revealed the New Jerusalem to John. Verse six says,
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And he said to me, these words are faithful and true; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets,hassentHisangeltoshowtoHisslavesthe things which must quickly take place. Verse seven says, And behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this scroll. And now in verse eight, we see again, And I John am he who hears and sees these things. And when I heard andsaw,Ifelltoworshipbeforethefeetoftheangel whoshowedmethesethings. John saw the revelation of the marriage of theLamb.Thiswastheintroductionofmanifestation of the kingdom, which was the ultimate revelation. His reaction was to exalt the messenger, but the messengerdidnotallowit:Donotdothis!Worship God! But when John received the revelation of the New Jerusalem, he forgot about the correction. He probably thought that the New Jerusalem was the ultimate, the consummation of everything of God and man. He considered that he could not worship the messenger who brought him the revelation concerning the kingdom, but he could worship the angel who brought him the revelation of the New Jerusalem. So, he fell down again and worshipped theangel:Ohmydearangel,thankyouverymuch!I
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wanttoexaltyou.Pleaseletmeputyournameinthe bookTheRevelationofTheAngel. Praise the Lord for the angel! He learned fromLuciferwhofellbecauseheacceptedexaltation. This messenger said: No! Worship God! I am a servant, just like you. I am the same as the apostles and the prophets who have to obey what is written in this book. God is the one you have to worship (v.9). This is the base of John's ministry. The revelation we receive is to worship God. If we worship man we will open a hole in our net: in our ministry, in our work. Later we will lose heart and loseourfirstlove. Keyword:ToworshipGod. Yourkeyword: Question: Why we cannot find John's name on his writtings?

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Week07:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(1) Monday
Scripturereading:Ezekiel28:1314,16;Ephesians5:12;Genesis1:28

...God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chainsofdarkness,tobereservedforjudgment... 2 Peter2:4 TheFalloftheAngels We are happy that the Lord is with us. At this timethisyearwearecompletingtenyearssincetheLord broughtustoserveinAfrica.Wehavehadagoodtime together, but we need to realize our condition. This is especially true since we are receiving this word concerning the ministry of the Apostle John in his maturity. Remember that this ministry has two aspects. Firstly, it is to mend the net in order to resolve our shortcomings,tocoverourholes.WeneedGodslightto showusandtoexposeusregardingourcondition,what we need in our personal live, in our church life, in the work, in the propagation of the gospel and in how to perfectthesaints.

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Thesecondaspectistocompletethework.We mend the net, recover our condition, become healthy andfruitful,andthenwecancooperatewiththeLordto complete the work by propagating the gospel of the kingdomandproducingatestimonyineverycity.Thisis why at this time the Lord has shown us all the generations,startingfromtheOldTestamentrightupto the New Testament; in order for us to learn from their mistakes, failures and shortages, so that we can apply themtooursituation. Remember thatbeforethecreationofmanwe havetheexperienceofthearchangels,especiallyLucifer. He had a ministry. He was in charge of the service on earth, but he rebelled against God. In Ezekiel twenty eightwecanlearnthereasonforhisrebellion. Luciferwasinvolvedinmanybusinesses(v.16). Itisdifficulttosaywhatkindofbusinessitwas.Business issomethinginwhichyousell.Itisanexchange;yougive somethingandyoureceivesomething.Itisdifficulttosay whatkindofnegotiationhewasinvolvedin. Weknowthathewasinchargeofkeepingthe garden (v.13). He was the covering cherub. He used to walkinthemidstoffierystones(v.14).Inallprobability heusedthese stonesto profitsomething. Thesestones were related to the glory of God, and this became a
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problemtohim.Ofcourse,hewasfullofprideandself exaltation.HewantedtobelikeGod. HowdidhewanttobelikeGod?Hewantedto belikeGodinthe matterofreceivingexaltation. This is only for God. It is very possible that at that time he received praising from the creatures and was exalted, and he enjoyed it and wanted to receive more. This developed to the point that he became very close to God. This was his fall. At this time the kingdom of darknesswasproduced,withSatan,hisfallenangelsand the demons, and they were controlling the earth (Ephesians 5:12). Then God created man so that man couldbeonewithGodtoregaincontrol,havedominion andestablishthekingdomofGod(Genesis1:28). Keyword:AllthegloryistoGod Yourkeyword: Question:WhydidLuciferfall?

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Week07:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(1) Tuesday
Scripturereading:Genesis3:6;1Timothy2:14

Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him,Whereareyou?Genesis3:9 TheFallofAdam Adam failed, and Genesis chapter three presents the reason for his failure. Let us read verse seventeen:AndtoAdamHesaid,Becauseyoulistened to the voice of your wife and have eaten the tree concerning which I commended you, saying, "You shall noteatofit";Cursedisthegroundbecauseofyou;intoil willyoueatofitallthedaysofyourlife." WhenwecometoHebrewschaptereleven,we seealistofthepeopleofGodthatGodapprovedof.The firstnamewefindthereisAbel.WecannotfindAdam. WhyisAdamnotonthislist?Itisbecausehecommitted abigmistakeinsteadoflisteningtoGod,helistenedto hiswife(Genesis3:6). WerealizethatAdamwasfulloffeelingforhis wife.Hereallyappreciatedher.Helovedhertothepoint that he decided to die rather than be alone. When she atethefruitofthetreeofknowledge,Adamrealizedthat
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she would die. And she offered the fruit to him. AccordingtothewordofGod,weknowthatthewoman wasdeceivedbutthemanwasnotdeceived(1Timothy 2:14). Heknewverywellwhathewasdoing.Hedecided toeat.Heprobablypreferredtodiethantoremainalone. Mostlikelyhethought,Ihavenoreasontobeseparated frommywife.Ifsheisgoingtodie,Iprefertodie. This situation shows something about him. It shows that he did not know God. He was lacking in his relationshipwithGod.HeshouldhaveturnedtoGodto show Him this situation. God created man. He has the power to create, and He also has the power to defeat death.Thewomanmightbegoingtodie,butiftheman was one with God, God would have the ground to do somethingforthewoman.ButbecauseAdamlistenedto thevoiceofhiswifeinsteadoflisteningtoGod,because Adamdidnothavefaith,hefailed.PraisetheLord! We need to learn from this. If we do not take Gods word, we open an opportunity to loseour heart. Many situations can come against us and we can be defeated.OhLordJesus! Keyword:ToturntoGodineverysituation. Yourkeyword: Question:WhydidAdamfail?
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Week07:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(1) Wednesday
Scripturereading:Jude6;Genesis6:29;4:26;5:2324;Hebrews11:7

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for Godtookhim.Genesis5:24 TheFallofMankind During the generation of Adam we have the mixtureofthefallenangelswithhumanbeings.Genesis chapter six presents this in verses one and two: And when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of Godsawthatthedaughtersofmenwerefair;andthey took wives for themselves from all whom they chose. Some translations say supernatural beings instead of angels.Theangelsmarriedthedaughtersofmen.We have a reference to this in the book of Jude: God said thattheangelsthatdidnotkeeptheirdwellingplaceare theangelsthatweremixedwithfallenmen(Jude6).The angels that took the daughters of men as their wives were rebellious, fallen angels. Imagine fallen angels mixedwithfallenman.Thisproducedadifferentkindof creature. It produced giants, famous men, and people who loved to be exalted. They were very much
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separated from God. This was very bad. Violence and fornication filled the earth in order to destroy human beingsanddestroyfamilies.EventuallyGodrepentedof creatingman.Canyouimaginethis?Godsplancameto astop(Genesis6:27). Man was created to cooperate with God, but man became one with Gods enemy. And man created another race that was not the original race anymore. It consistedoffallenangelsmixedwithfallenmen.Theyhad a very hard heart that was not open to receive Gods word. Then the Lord decided to destroy the human beings. But praise the Lord that God found Noah, and Noah found God. Noah and his family survived, and we canlearnsomethingfromtheirgeneration(Genesis6:89). WhenEnoshwasborn,menbegantocallonthe nameoftheLord(Genesis4:26).Thisisaveryimportant revelation that we can learn from Adams generation. Therearemanyevilthingshere;however,wecantouch onsomethingverypositive.Manstartedtocalluponthe nameoftheLord. Enoch learned this point very well, and he walked with God for three hundred and sixtyfive years (Genesis5:2324).Oneyearhasthreehundredandsixty five days. It was like one year. If we walk with God for oneyear,GodwillraptureustoHimself,andwewillnot
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die.ButEnochwalkedwithGodthreehundredsixtyfive years,andhedidnotseedeathbecauseGodtookhim; hewasraptured.Thisisthefirstgeneration. WecanlearnfromAbelthathepleasedGod.He died,buthepleasedGod.Enochdidnotdie,buthedid something morethanjustpleaseGodhelearnedhow towalkwithGod.Wecantakethesetwopointsinorder to walk in God's presence: the blood from Abel, and thenameoftheLordfromEnoch. Noah received revelation through the word of God(Hebrews 11:7).Through thatwordhebuiltanark tosavehisfamily.Thearksavedthemnotonlyfromthe kingdomofdarknessbutalsofromGodsjudgment.We need to fight against the kingdom of darkness, but we alsoneedtobesavedfromGodsjudgment.Thisiswhy we need His provision the blood, the name and the wordthenwecansurvive.Doyourealize thatweare surviving on this earth? Why are we not involved with this world, sin and fornication, that damage our family andourfuture?Itisbecausewehavetheblood,wehave thenameandwehavetheword. Keyword:ToCooperatewithGod. Yourkeyword: Question:WhyGoddecidedtodestroythehumanrace?
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Week07:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(1) Thursday
Scripture reading: Genesis 12:13;15:46, 32:28,50:26;Galatians 3:6; Joshua24:32;Deuteronomy12:11

...thentherewillbetheplacewheretheLORDyour God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offeringsofyourhand,andallyourchoiceofferings whichyouvowtotheLORD.Deuteronomy12:11 TheNewBeginningwiththePeopleofIsrael Itisnotenoughtobeasurvivor.Godhasaplan. Wearenotherejusttosay,ThankyouLordthatweare stillaliveaftertenyears.Myfamilyisaliveandwearestill servingGod.ThisdoesnotsolveGodsproblem.Hewants to complete the work. We need to be called by Him as Abrahamwas. Abrahamreceivedthepromiseofaland,anation andablessing(Genesis12:13).Weneedtocometoanew land. This new land is Christ. We need to enjoy Christ so thatwecanbecomeagreatnationandablessingtobless allthenations.Thiswasapromise,buttoaccomplishthe promise it was necessary for Abraham to have a
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descendent.Thisdescendant wasIsaac.Isaacdidntcome becauseofAbrahamspower.Abrahamwasveryold,and Sarahwasveryoldalso.Theyhadnonaturalstrength.How could Isaac come? He could come through faith. They trustedinGodsword(Genesis15:46;Galatians3:6). Wehavenostrengthtoproduceanything,butwe cantrustintheLord,andwecantrustinHisword.Weare notmanyinnumber,butwehaveapromisetobecomea great nation. But in order to accomplish this we need to trustinGodsword.WeneedfaithtoproduceIsaac. GoddoesnotonlywanttoproduceIsaac;theLord wantstotransformustobeprincesofGod(Genesis32:28). ThisrepresentswhatGodwantstodothroughJacob,who wasasupplanter.TobeaprinceofGodlikeIsrael,weneed to mature until we canrule over Egypt. Thisis whatGod wantstodoinusbyfaith.PraisetheLord! ThenJosephcame,buthediedandwasputinside acoffin(Genesis50:26).Ononehand,thisisnegative,but on the other hand, it became a seed the seed of the ministrysothatwecansowthisseedintheGoodLand (Joshua 24:32). However, God's people were in Egypt. Thereneededtobeanothergenerationthegenerationof conquerorssotheycouldcomeoutofEgypt,crosstheRed Sea,crossthedesert,crosstheJordanRiverandenterinto

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theGoodLandtodefeattheenemy,takepossessionofthe landandestablishthekingdomofGod. For this to happen, the Lord needs to do somethingmoreinus.Itisnotpossibletoconquertheland ifwearenotanarmy.TobeanarmyGodneedstoestablish aleadership, a spiritual leadership with aheavenly vision. Godneedstoproduceeducators,likethehouseofAaron, tohelpandteachthepeopletoknowGod.Theyneedto knowhowtohavefellowshipwithHim,howtoserveHim and how to live a proper life. We have to be spiritually educated. PraisetheLordforthechurchlife!Wearelearning howtobeinthespiritandhowtolivebyGodsword.Atthe same time, the Lord is producing a proper leadership to leadustotheGoodLandinthewayofenjoyment.Asan army we can go out, propagate the gospel, conquer the landandestablishGodsauthorityineverylocality.Butwe needtogofurther,forwestillhavemanylandstoconquer. ButthisisnotallGodalsowantstobuildHishouse. In order to build the house of God we need revelationto seethe groundofthis building. We cansee this in the book of Deuteronomy. Moses received a revelationfromGod.InchaptertwelveGodsaidtoMoses, WhenmypeoplecrosstheJordanRiver,theywillnotdo the sameasthey didinthe wilderness.Iwillshowyoua
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place and you will go there. It is there that I will put My name,anditwillbeMydwellingplace"(vv.1012). Keyword:Thechosenplace. Yourkeyword: Question: Where the seed of the ministry needs to betaken?

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Week07:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(1) Friday
Scripturereading:1Kings8:1011;1Corinthians2:35;Philippians 4:13

And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration oftheSpirit and ofpower, that your faithshouldnotbeinthewisdomofmenbutinthe powerofGod.1Corinthians2:45 TheFallofthePeopleofIsrael God had spoken about a place, but when the peopleofGodenteredintotheland,theyforgotaboutthis. They lived there for more than four hundred years, and theyhadnoideawhattheyweredoingthere.Onlywhen GodraisedupSamueldidthingsbegintochange. WhenSamuelanointedDavidasthekingofIsrael, Davidreceivedarevelationthathewasdwellinginahouse, butwherewasGodshouse?Atthattimethearkwasina tent,andtheydidnotevenknowwherethearkwas.But praisetheLord!GodrevealedtoDavidtheplacetobuild thehouse,andDavidpreparedthematerials.However,he could not build thehouse because hehad shed so much blood.WhenSolomoncame,peacecame.PraisetheLord
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thatpeace came! Weareimproving in our experience of peace.Everytimewecometogetherwecanrealizethatwe are improving. We are more blended and more harmonized.Wehavemorepeaceandifwehavepeace, wecanbuildthehouse. When the house was built, Gods glory filled the house,anditbecameaverystrongmodeltoblessallthe nations (1 Kings 8:1011). After that it was necessary to propagate the testimony, but we know what happened. Solomonwasverywise,butheforgotGodswordanddid manythingscompletelycontrarytowhatGodswordsaid, whichcauseddegradationanddeviationtocomein.Thisis verytypical.Whensomeoneisblessedregardingtheword of God, and is successful in presenting Gods word, eventuallytheystarttoinventthings.Theirblessingcame throughthewordofGod,butbecausetheybecamevery successful, they started to have ideas. But their ideas are differentfromGodsword.Thisisverydangerous. Imagine if wewould come to apoint where the Lord blesses us and we put the Bible aside and start to inventthingstodo.Weproposethatwebuysomethingto identify ourselves. For example, it might be green cars: Everychurchneedstobuyagreencar.Thegreencarswill expressourtestimony.Whereverwegopeoplewilllookat us and say, 'Oh, this green car belongs to the church. It
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belongstothechurchinNakuruandthechurchinNairobi.' Thiswouldbeverygood. Thenwewouldcomeandaskeveryonetobuya green car. We would prepare a special meeting to encourage the saints to buy green cars. And everybody wouldofferinordertobuygreencars.Thenthingswould starttoregress.Wemightthinkwehaveablessing,butthis isonlyourimagination.TheLordsaidnottomultiplyhorses todayhorsesarecars.Sowemultiplycars.Wehavecarsto propagatethegospel.Ifwehaveacar,itisgood,andifwe donothavecar,itisgoodalso.Wedonotcareaboutcars. Wecareaboutthegospel.Weshouldnotgiverulestothe saints,gettingthesaintsinvolvedinthesethings. Then I build a carfactoryto producegreen cars. Thesaintshavetobuyfrommyfactory.Igiveadiscountto theoneswhobuymygreencars.Thisbecomesabusiness. ThenIstarttohavefinancialproblemsbecausethecarsare notselling.SoIaskthesaintstohaveaspecialfellowshipin which I become angry, telling them to buy more cars. I declarethatthesaintsdonothavethesameheartasIhave, and I tell them that they have to buy more cars for the gospel.Actually,myfactoryisnotdoingwell,andIneedto sellmorecarsbecausethisinvolvesmoney.Someonehas probablyinvestedalotofmoney.

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This is what Solomon did. If he had not been so wise he would not have had this kind of thought. But because Salomon was very wise, very smart, he knew business.Heknewhowtodobusiness. Sothesethingscamein,andnowthereismixture in the church. This is deviation. We lose the blessing and bring in forced labor. What is forced labor? Who is strengtheningus?TheSpiritisstrengtheningusthroughthe word of God (1 Corinthians 2:35; Philippians 4:13). We cannot force anyone to do anything. What we can do is enjoy the Lord and the Spirit together. This will give us strength. But if I invent this kind of situation and start to force you to do whatI want, this is forced labor. Do you knowwhobroughtthisintothekingdom?ItwasSolomon, becausehewasverywiseandhehadgoodideas.Hewas abletodotwentythingsatthesametime.Mostpeoplecan onlydoonethingatatime.OhLordJesus! Keyword:Theblessingcomesthroughtheword. Yourkeyword: Question: What happens if someone uses wisdom withoutthewordofGod?

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Week07:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(1) Saturday Scripturereading:2Corinthians2:17;1Timothy6:56

For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak inthesightofGodinChrist.2Corinthians2:17 TheLostGeneration Because of our ability we put the Bible aside. Webringinthingsthathavenobasisintheword.Thisis the source of deviation. Degradation came in and they lost everything. They lost everything they had the temple,thecity,thewalls,theland,andthepeopleand theyfellintocaptivity.Thisisthelostgeneration.Doyou knowwhatthefirststepinbecomingthelostgeneration is?Itisnaturalwisdom,naturalcapacity. We are blessed because we are following the word. If we come to a point where we have glory; the glory comes from God. But we could mix Gods glory withournaturalcapabilityandinventthingslikeTshirts, andespeciallyhatsjusttogiveglory.Imayaskallofyou to buy the same hats. Who will produce these hats? I mayaskbrotherA,Canyouproducesomehats?Then wepresentthistothechurch.Onthefrontofthehatwe
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put,JesusisLord.Wearepropagatingthegospel.But brother Amay tellmethathehasnomoneyto doit. I ask brother B for some money, and he loans it to me. NowbrotherA,themoneyishere.Youcanproducethe hats. Then the saints buy the hats. But the business stopsdoingwell.Sowetellthesaints,Youneedtobuy hats. Look at this verse that says that you are under authority,spiritualauthority.Hatsaregood. Thisismerelyimagination.Thesearethingsthat havenogroundintheBible.Ifwedidthis,wewouldbe takingaveryproblematicwayandthesaintswouldfeel verybad.Theywouldthink,Whatisthisbrotherdoing? HewantsustobuyhatsIamnotcomfortablewiththis situation.AndthenImightcomecomplaining, Whyis Nakuru not buying hats? Mombasa is full of hats, but Nakuru is not buying the hats. Then we will have a specialmeeting,nottospeakaboutthesituationofthe church,buttospeakaboutthehats,thehatfactory,and the green cars. This is what happens. This comes from glory.Ifsomeonedoesnthavegloryandwisdom,hewill notbeabletodothiskindofthing.OhLordJesus!Thisis verydangerous. We hope the Lord will keep us pure. We only presentthegospeltothesaints.Weonlyhelpthesaints toenjoytheLord,betogether,andservetogether.Our
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offeringsarenotforbusiness;theyaretopropagatethe gospel and the work, to supply the migrations, and to produce material for propagating the gospel. They are not to produce material to make business (1 Timothy 6:6). Youcannotfindwhatwearesharingwithyouin many places. Many of the saints think that this kind of wordwouldbegoodtopreachontheradio.Theythink thatthisconferencethewordabouttheministryofthe Apostle John in his maturity would be very good to preachontheradio.Andweneedtoprepareabookto sell to make a very good profit. You might consider, How much is this revelation worth? Then you charge the price that you want. I spent two U.S. dollars to preparethematerial,butIwillchargetwentytimesthat much and will sell it for forty U.S. dollars. I will use this money to support the work. It seems good, but can I use the revelation to gain profit? Is this revelation comingfrommeorfromGod?DoIholdtherightstothe revelation? How can I profit from something that belongstoGod.HowcanIprofitandaskpeopletopay? Whogavemethisright? ThisisverycommontodayamongChristians (2 Corinthians2:17;1Timothy6:5).TheyusewhattheLord has given them to make business. They use prayer. If
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someone is good at praying, or if they have received powertohealpeople,theydoitfreelyinthebeginning. But later they start to charge. If you do not pay in advance, they will not pray for you. This is to make businessfromsomethingthattheLordhasgiven.Arewe allowedtodothis? This also happens with revelation. Someone speaksaboutasubjectintheBible,andthepeoplelikeit and want to read more. Then the people have to pay. Howmuch?ItcostsfortyU.S.dollars.Whocanpaythis? Only the rich; the poor cannot pay. The rich receive knowledge, and the poor receive nothing. Is this the Lords way? Did the Lord do things like this? This came from Solomon. He opened the door for deviation and degradation, and this generation became the lost generation. But, praise the Lord that He reacted and calledthegenerationofrecovery. Keyword:KeepingthewordofGod. Yourkeyword: Question: How Solomon open a door for deviation anddegradation?

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Week07:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(1) Sunday Scripturereading:Revelation3:8

I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not deniedMyname.Revelation3:8 PreparingtheWayfortheLord We need to be like those who recovered the testimony of the Lord. We need to be brought back to the ground. What ground? The ground of the Lords name, the Lords word, and the Spirit. But we have nostrength. Wehave a little power (Revelation 3:8).Whydowehavealittlepower?Itisbecausewe cannotusemethods;wehavetodependfullyonthe Lord.IftheLordgivestous,wehave.IftheLorddoes not give to us, we do not have. We do not have enough to produce a good conference. We do not have transportation for everybody or money to pay for hospitality or money to pay for everything. If we could pay for everything, we would fill this building. If we do not have the money, we do not fill the building.Wedonothaveenough.OhLordJesus!
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But what we have comes from the Lord. Therefore we can build something according to the word of God. Praise the Lord! This is recovery: the recovery of the ground, of service, of consecration andofpropagation. The recovery in the Old Testament was not strong; rather, it was weak. Not all of God's people went back to Jerusalem. The majority remained in Babylon,wheretherewasmixture.Onlyafewpeople returned. This is our situation. We present the truth, therevelation,andpeopleagreeandenjoybuthow many return? How many want to come back to pay the price? We are just beginning, so we don't have manythingsorbeautifulthings.ButtheLordfounda group to take up the burden, the same as what we aredoing.AndthiswasenoughfortheLordtocome. TheLordcouldcomebecauseofthatrecovery. Keyword:Week,butbuildingwiththewordofGod. Yourkeyword: Question:Whichthingsneedtoberecovered?

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Week08:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(2) Monday
Scripturereading:Matthew1:1;2Samuel12:115,24;Galatians3:6

Thebook ofthegeneration ofJesusChrist, theson ofDavid,thesonofAbraham.Matthew1:1 TheGenerationofJesusChrist Wealso have the generation of Jesus Christ,the son of David, and the son of Abraham. Why is this generationcalledthesonofDavidandthesonofAbraham? This is the first verse in the New Testament. Mathew chapteroneverseonesays,Thebookofthegenerationof JesusChrist,thesonofDavid,thesonofAbraham. WhoisthesonofDavid?ItisSolomon.Buthow could Solomon come? Hecamebecause Davidrepented. Davidwasgoingtodie.Hecommittedasin,andhegave thejudgmentconcerninghimself.Theprophetcametohim andsaidthataforeignerwasreceivedbyarichman.The richmanofferedthesheepofhisneighbor,whoonlyhad one sheep, to the foreigner to please him. The prophet asked David, What do you think about this? David was quick to judge the situation. He said,This man needs to die. How could he do that? And the prophet said, This manisyou!Youarethisman.Davidgavehisjudgment,
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andhewastheking.Davidsaid,Thismanneedstodie. Andtheprophetsaid,Thismanisyou.ThenDavidasked forforgivenessandGodacceptedhisrepentance.However, Davidschildhadtodie(2Samuel12:115). Praise the Lord for David's repentance. Solomon cameasthefruitofrepentance(2Samuel12:24).Theson ofDavidisthefruitofourrepentance.Howmanymistakes havewecommittedinourserviceandinourlocalityagainst God, against the saints, againstthe word,inourthinking, tryingtobringthingstoourministry?Thisissin.Everything that we do we must do for Christ and for the church. Nothingisforus.Thisisrepentance.PraisetheLord. ThesonofAbrahamwhoisthesonofAbraham? ItisIsaac.HowdidIsaaccome?HecamebecauseAbraham believed (Galatians 3:6). The beginning of the New Testament is repentance and faith. Praise the Lord! We needtorepentandbelieveinthewordofGod,inthepure wordofGod.ThisisthegenerationofJesusChristthatwill buildGodshouseandfinishthework. Keyword:Repentanceandfaith. Yourkeyword: Question:WhatdoesitmeanfortheLordtobethe SonofDavidandtheSonofAbraham?

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Week08:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(2) Tuesday
Scripturereading:1John3:56;Matthew4:1825,5:12

And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples cametoHim.Matthew5:1 PreparingtheDisciplesTheFirstSeparation What did Jesus need to do? He needed to accomplish redemption. He did not commit any mistakes because He was full of the Spirit. He never committed a mistake because he was full of the Spirit. Before doing anything, He would pray. He would look to God and be before God. So He never made a mistake (1 John 3:56). Because of this He became the Lamb of God to die in our place. He was the Christ, so He was committed to accomplish what theothergenerationsdid notaccomplish, which was to establish the kingdom and build a house for God. TheLordinitiatedthis.How?Heproducedagroupof disciplesbycallingthemandseparatingthemforthe kingdom. The Lord called them. Firstly He saved them, healedthemandgavethemlife.LatertheLordcalled
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them to follow Him. Many followed Him a great multitude (Matthew 4:1825). The Lord looked at that great multitude and saw that it was too many. Hewantedtomakeaseparation. The Lord went up to the mountain, but the multitude remained down the mountain (Matthew 5:12). They did not go up; they did not want to pay the price. But praise the Lord for the disciples. They paidthepriceandwentuptobewiththeLord.There the Lord taught them. The Lord did do any miracles; Hejusttaughtthem.IfyouwanttofollowtheLordto see miracles, one day you will have nothing to see. He goes to the mountain and in the mountain the Lord does notdo miracles;He justteaches. What we need is His word, His living word, His divine word. Praise the Lord! This can transform us. Miracles cannottransformus.Thereisonlyonethingthatcan transform us the word of God, the living word of God that we receive by the Spirit and life. Jesus is Lord! Keyword:Payingthepricetobecomeadisciple. Yourkeyword: Question:Whatcantransformus?

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Week08:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(2) Wednesday Scripturereading:Matthew8:1925 Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followedHim.Matthew8:23

PreparingtheDisciplesTheSecondSeparation The Lord made another separation when He enteredintotheboat.Hesaid,Letusgototheotherside (Matthew8:18).Howcanwegototheotherside?Wehave to enter into the boat. The disciples started to consider, Howcanallthesepeopleenterintothisboat?TheLord enteredintotheboat,butdidntsaywhyorhow.People asked,Howcanthismultitudeenterintothisboat?Thisis notaproblem.Theboatisnottheplaceforthemultitude;it isaplaceforthedisciples.Themultitudecannotenterinto theboat. Whatisthedifferencebetweenthemultitudeand thedisciples?Oneofthedisciplessaid,Lord,Iwillfollow youwhereveryougo.AndtheLordaskedhim,Doyou want to follow Me? I have no place to lay My head (Matthew8:1920).DoyouwanttofollowMe?Idonot think anyone would enjoy following someone who has nothing.Somemaysay,Iwantahouseandaplotofland.
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IftheLorddoesnothaveaplotoflandandahouse,Idonot wanttofollowhim.OhLordJesus! If we are following the Lord because we want a house,wewillprobablybedisappointed.Ifwefollowthe Lord,Hewillprovideeverythingweneed.PraisetheLord!If wearefollowingtheLordbecausewewantthegreencaror the red hat, or a house of a certain colour, and the Lord says,I will not give you ahouse" we will followanother ministry. We will follow a ministry that gives houses. The ministry of the Lord did not promise this. What the Lord promiseduswastosupplyallourneeds.Yes,weneeda house,andtheLordwillprovideahouse.Butitdoesnot meanthatthehousewillbelongtous.Wewillprobablynot betheowner.ButtheLordpromisedahouseforustolive in.He promised food, clothes, and transportation. He did notpromiseacartous,butHewilltransportus.IfHewants ustogosomewhere,wecanbesurethatHewillprovide themeans. AnotherdisciplesaidtotheLord,LordIneedto gotoafuneral.Lord,IwanttofollowYou,butbeforeIdo,I have to go to a funeral my fathers funeral (Matthew 8:2122) Thefuneral of ourfather is the mostimportant funeralwecangoto.So thediscipleaskedtheLordifhe couldgotothefuneral.Anditwasprobablythetimeofa

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conference,becausetheLordsaid,Letusgototheother side. The Lord wanted to speak something to the disciples.TheLordaskedthemtostaywithhimduringthat time.Therewasonlyoneboat.Ifthedisciplemissedthat boat,hewouldlosetheexperienceinthatboat.Hewould miss the Lords speaking and the opportunity to be a disciple.Thedisciplehadanexcuseagoodexcuse:Iam sorry Lord. I have to go to my fathers funeral. Do you knowwhattheLordsaid?Hesaid,YoufollowMe!Leave thedeadtoburythedeadandfollowMe.Canyouimagine this? I think the translation is not correct. But the translationisveryaccurate.TheLordsaidnotohim.Thisis veryimportant. Doyouknowwhatthisis?Thisistradition.Thefirst caseisdreams.Wedohavedreams.Ifwewanttofollow the Lordbut wedo not want to give up our dreams,we cannotenterintotheboat.Thesecondcaseisourtradition. Ifwearenotreadytoleaveourtradition,wecannotenter into the boat. To enter into the boat you cannot bring baggage. Allofushavetwobigbags.Onebagisourdreams, especially our material dreams. This is the bag of our requests. And the other bag is the bag of our traditions. Sincewehavebeenalivewehavebeenbringingthesetwo
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bagswithus.Whereverwegowetakethesetwobags:our dreams and our traditions. And these bags are getting bigger.Everydayweputsomethingelseintothem.Youfind somespaceandanewphonegoesin.Now,ajob:Lookat thisjob,howniceitis.Next,Theyarebuildingbeautiful housesinNairobi.Iwantone. On the other hand, we have traditions: funerals, weddings, and infant baptisms. When the time comes to enter into the boat to follow the Lord, the disciples have twobigbags.AndtheLordsays,Thisisnotpossible.Ifyou wanttoenterintothisboatyouhavetoleavethebags.You cannot bring bags. Then the disciples start to complain, ButLord!Ibroughtmybagswithmeuntilnow.Thisisall thatIhave.TheLordwillsaytoyou,Yes.Butifyouwant tobeadisciple,youhavetoleaveyourbags. Wepraise the Lordthat the boat represents the churchlife.ThiswastheonlytimeintheNewTestament,in thatboat,whenChristslept(Matthew8:25).Inthewhole NewTestamentthereisonlyonetimethatweseeChrist sleeping.Hewasresting.HesaidHehadnoplacetorest, butwhenHeenteredintothatboat,Heslept,Herested. Thisisthechurch.ThisistheplacewhereGodcanrest.Itis the placewhereJesushaspleasure.Itisnotabig ship,a transatlantic.Itisasmallboat.TheLorddidnotenterintoa

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transatlantic,abigship,tocrossthecontinents.Heentered intoaboat,averysmallboat.ButHefoundrestthere. Then the Lord produced a group of disciples (Matthew10:14).Hewashappy.TheFather'sworkcould bedonewiththisgroupofdisciples.JesusisLord!Itwasa littleflock,butthislittleflockgavetheLordrest,itgaveHim pleasure.PraisetheLord! Key word: Leaving the dreams and tradition to becomeadisciple. Yourkeyword: Question: Where and with whom can the Lord find rest?

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Week08:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(2) Thursday
Scripturereading:Matthew26:4045;John18:10;Mark14:6672;16:7

...and saying, 'The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in thegospel.'Mark1:15 TheDisciple'sMistakes Thetwelveapostlesadvanced,buttraditioncame intostoptheLordsmove.ThentheLordcalledtheApostle Paul.Paulwasverystrong.Hereceivedrevelation,buthe alsomademistakes.Peteralsomademistakesasadisciple andasanapostle.Weknowverywellhowmanymistakes hemadeasadisciple.OnthelastdayoftheLordsearthly ministry,PeterdeniedtheLordthreetimes,hefellasleep threetimesandhealmostkilledtheservantofthepriest (Matthew26:4045;John18:10;Mark14:6672).Whenthe Lordwasbeingarrested,Petertookaswordandcutoffthe earoftheservant.Canyouimaginedoingthatatnight?The patrol came at night to arrest the Lord with swords, and when they found Him, Judas kissed the Lord. When they weregoingtoarrestHim,suddenlyPetertookaswordand cut off the ear of the soldier. Imagine the soldier seeing Peterattack.Theycouldreturntheattack.WhatPeterdid
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at night was very dangerous. But the Lord adjusted the situation.TheLordputtheearbackveryquickly,andwhen thepeoplelookedatthesoldier,theearwasthere.They leftwiththeLordandletthedisciplesgo. Peterdidsomethingthatwasverydangerous.All thedisciplescouldhavebeenkilled,includingtheLord.The Lord would be accused of rebelling, resisting arrest, and armingthedisciplesbecauseofPeter.Itwouldhavebeena disaster. But when the Lord reminded Peter after the resurrection, Peter did not resist. He committed many mistakesonthesamedayhecouldnotpraywiththeLord, hefellasleepthreetimes,heputthelivesofallthedisciples atriskandhedeniedtheLordthreetimes.Hecouldhave leftafterthat,buttheLordremindedhimandcalledhim. When PeterrealizedtheLordwascalling him,he didnot resistandwentbacktotheLord(Mark16:7).Atthispoint Peter was very good. He reacted very quickly. He made mistakes,butherepentedveryquickly. Keyword:Torepentquickly. Yourkeyword: Question:WhatcausedtheLord'smovetostop?

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Week08:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(2) Friday
Scripturereading:Acts9:3240;10:1314

And a voice spoke to him again the second time, 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.Acts10:15 TraditionCausingPetertoFail Then Peter took the lead among the apostles in Jerusalem,andhewasdoingverywell.Butwhenwelookat Acts chapter 9 we see Peter healing a paralytic that had been in bed for eight years. Peter went there and said, Standupandwalk.Andhedid(vv.3235).Later,asister died, and Peter went to her funeral. The people were crying, especially the sisters, because the sister who had diedwasaverygoodsister.WhenPeterarrivedheaskedall ofthemtogooutbecausehewantedtopray(vv.3640). Canyouimagineyoucometoadeadsisterandyouask everybodytogooutbecauseyouwanttoprayforher,to ask God to raise her? He asked everybody to leave. He wantedtobealone.Hedidnotevenallowthesaintstocry. AtthistimePeterbecameverystrong.Hewasabletopray andraiseadeadsister,butthesmallsaintscouldnoteven cry.
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TheBodyneedsthefunctionofeverymember.In the Pentecostalwaythestrongwillbecome strongerand stronger,andtheweakwillbecomeweakerandweaker,to thepointthattheweakonescannotevencry.Theywere therecrying,butPetersentthemout,andthestrongerone wasabletoprayandraiseadeadone.Itlooksverygood, but where is the Body here? The Body is the function of every member. We need to perfect the members of the Body,butinthePentecostalwayitisimpossibletodothis. At this point the Lord gave Peter a commission. The Lord raised this sister from the dead. He answered Peter'sprayer.Ifyouhavearequest,abigrequest,sayyou needabigfavorandyouasksomeonetohelpyou;ifthat personhelpsyou,youwillbeverythankful,andwhatever they need of you, you will do for them. This is what happened to Peter. He asked the Lord to raise the sister fromthedead,Lord,pleaseraisethissisterfromthedead andthenIwilldoanythingYouaskme.AndtheLordsaid; Fine,Iwilldoit.AndHeraisedthesister. In the next chapter the Lord came to Peter and saidtohim,Riseup,killandeat.AndwhatdidPetersay? By no means, Lord (Acts 10:1314). The Lord probably saidtoPeter,Peter,youaskedMetoraisethesisterfrom thedead.Ididnotsaytoyou,Bynomeans.Ididwhatyou askedofMe.NowIamaskingyoutoriseup,killandeat.
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What did Peter say? By no means! Why did Peter say that?Becauseofhissoullife.Hebecameverystrong,tothe pointofarguingwithGod.ThisisthePentecostalway. Pentecostal things, that is, to be filled with the Spiritandmiracles,areimportant.Butlookwhathappened toPeter.PeterrefusedtolistentowhattheLordsaidtohim becausehebecameverypowerful.Heobeyed,butnotto the extent that the Lord wanted. Then the Lord replaced him. The Lord called the Apostle Paul to do what Peter shouldhavedone.Why?Becauseoftradition.Wearenot ready to humble ourselves, to realize that we need somethingfromtheLord. Keyword:WhatwehaveisfromtheLord. Yourkeyword: Question:WhyPeterarguedwithGod?

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Week08:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(2) Saturday
Scripturereading:Acts16:67,910;19:21;22:1718;21:4;2Timothy1:15

Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Acts16:10 TraditionCausingPaultoFail WehavethesamesituationinPaul'sexperience. Paulwasverysuccessfulonhissecondjourney;hewasvery sensitivetotheSpirit.IhopeyoucanrememberthatPaul decidedtogotoAsia,andtheSpiritsaid,No.Pauldidnot argue, he said, Fine. Then he decided to go to Bithynia andtheSpiritsaid,No.AndPaulobeyed.Duringthenight hereceivedavision.AMacedonianmancametohimand said,CometoMacedoniaandhelpus.ImmediatelyPaul went to Macedonia. He was very sensitive during his secondjourney(Acts16:67,910). Butonhisthirdjourneyhesaid,Iwanttogoto Jerusalem (Acts 19:21). The Lord said, Don't go to Jerusalem.IfyougotoJerusalemyouwillbearrested,and they will not hear your testimony concerning Me(Acts 22:1718). But Paul said, I will go. I want to go to Jerusalem.TheLordraisedupsaintstotellhimnottogoto
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Jerusalem (Acts 21:4), but he said, No, I will go to Jerusalem.ThentheLordraisedupaprophettotellhim thathewouldbearrested.Pauldidn'tcare;hesaidhewas readytodie(Acts21:1013).Hewasanapostle.Whatprofit woulditbetoGodifhedied?Anapostleneedstobealive. Paul had a vision, he had experience, he had burden.WhydidheneedtogotoJerusaleminthemidstof tradition and religion and get involved there? He went there,andhewasarrested.InPaulsexperienceweseethat becausehehadexperiencedsomuchandwasstrong,he got to the point that when the Lord needed him in one place,hewenttoanother.ThishappenedwithPeter,andit happenedwithPaul.Aftersometimeallthechurchturned awayfromhisministry(2Timothy1:15). Keyword:NotbeingstrongagainstGod. Yourkeyword: Question: What happened when Paul arrived in JerusalemafterdesobeyingGod?

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Week08:TheMinistryofApostleJohninhisMaturity(2) Sunday
Scripturereading:Revelation22:89;John6:63

Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And whenIheardandsaw,Ifelldowntoworshipbefore the feetofthe angel who showed methese things. Then he said to me, 'See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of thisbook.WorshipGod.Revelation22:89 TheministryofapostleJohninhismaturity PraisetheLordfortheApostleJohnwhocameto mend the net and to complete the word. In Johns Revelationwithfourgreatvisions,thethirdgreatvisionis regarding the judgment of the great Babylon and the marriageoftheLamb.YesterdaywesawthatwhenJohn sawthemarriageoftheLambhebecameveryexcitedand worshippedtheangel.Ohdearangel,Ithankyouforthis revelation about the kingdom, the judgment of the great Babylon,andthemarriageoftheLamb.Thisissobeautiful! Thankyou,mymessenger.ThemessengerstoppedJohn and said to him, Worship God! This is the basis for mendingthenettoworshipGod.
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Ineverygenerationinchurchhistorythepeopleof God have worshipped the messenger: Lutherans, Wesleyans, etc. Every messenger produced worshippers. ButintheselastdaystheLordhasshownusarevelation.In Revelation 22, the last chapter, John says, I, John I did this.Heexposedhimself.Hedidnotpresentthepositive things that he did, but he presented his mistakes. Let us readRevelation22,verse8:AndIJohnamhewhohears andseesthesethings.AndwhenIheardandsaw,Ifellto worshipbeforethefeetoftheangelwhoshowedmethese things. Healreadydidthisinchapter 19.Nowtheangel showed him the New Jerusalem, which is the consummationofGodsplan. Thisisamarvelousvision.Hebecame soexcited thatheworshippedthemessengeragain.Herewehavea goodtestimony,inthatheexposedhimself.Mynameis John,andIdidthis.Thebasisformendingthenetistosee our shortcomings, to recognize our situation. He did not accuseanyoneelse.Hesaid,MynameisJohn,andIdid this.Imadethismistake.Iworshippedthemessenger.This isthesourceoflosinglife.Ifweworshipthemessenger,if we exalt aman, wewill make a hole in the net, andour generationwillbeanotherlostgeneration. We learned this lesson. The Recovery did this: exalted the messenger. The messenger did this. The
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messengersaidthat.Everythingyousayyouhavetosay thenameofthemessengerbecauseThemessengersaidit likethis. PraisetheLordfortheministryoftheApostleJohn in his maturity. This was the last time Johns name was mentioned. In his gospel we have the name of John the Baptist. Wehave the nameofthe apostles, including the nameofPeter,butwedonothavetheApostleJohnsname because he was the messenger. He learned from the messengerwhodidnotallowhimtoworshiphim. Inthisministrywedonotacceptthisandweare not for this; we worship God. This is a very important mendingofthenettorecoverourfirstlove.Whydopeople losethefirstlove?BecausetheydonotcontactGod.They contact the explanation of the Bible. They contact the revelation. But if you want to receive life you need to contactGodHimself.AndthefirststeptocontactGodisto repent:MynameisJohn.Ididthis.OhLordJesus!Johns repentance is very unique in the New Testament: My nameisJohn.Ididthis.OhLordJesus! After this fellowship is a good time for us to go before God and say: My name is , I did this. Oh Lord, forgiveme.IfwedonotreceiveJohn'sministrywewillnot dothis.Wewillsay,Hewastheonewhodidit,notme. Adam did this, Solomon did this, David did this, the
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prophetsdidthis,butIamfine.Ifyouarefineitmeansyou havenoholesandyoudon'tneedJohn'sministry.Butifyou haveholes,thisministryistosaveyou.Itistobringyouback to a good condition: to contact the Lord, speaking and singingthehymns,digestingthewordandprophesying. A very important point in John's ministry was to help God's people know how to enjoy the word of God, howtotouchthewordofGod.Itisabigproblemtotouch thewordofGodasknowledge.IfwetouchGodswordin the way of knowledge, it will kill us, our family and our testimony.Thewordneedstobecomespiritandlife(John 6:63).Howcanthiswordbecomespiritandlife?Wemust touch the word with our spirit. Not only so, we need to digestit. We have shared many points during this conference.Don'tthinkthisisenough.Forthiswordtobe absorbed by us, we need to digest it, ruminate it, many times. If we do not do this, the word will just be information,knowledge;andthisknowledgewillkillusand damageourconsecrationandourlove. John'sministryistomendthenet,tobringusback totheLord,andtohelpusknowhowtoreceivethewordof God. It is not only to hear it, then next week we speak something else and forget what we heard. We need to

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digest it. Then it will be our constitution. We will be this wordandthiswordwillbeus.OhLordJesus! Keyword:Mynameis.....Ididthis. Yourkeyword: Question:Howcanwehaveourfirstloverecovered?

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