Oklahoma 2008 Blog
Monday, November 24, 2008 p.m.
We are in Bondage
Bro. Daniel Layne
Christians are not in bondage to sin or the flesh. The spirit gives us liberty to reign over this.
We are not in bondage to Satan or the flesh.
We are no longer in bondage to ceremonial law.
We are in a strait bondage. We are in bondage and have volunteered, and this bondage sets us perfectly free.
Matthew 11:29,30
When you come to the Lord for salvation, you’re asking for the yoke.
“The only way I can have the fire is if I have the yoke upon me.”
Ephesians 4:8 There are only two masters.
The design was not to set us free from all captivity, but to translate us from one captivity to another. There are no people walking on this earth who are not a captive to one of these masters.
“I’ve been captivated!” That means this has gotten my total attention.
Genesis 1:25 God set limits from the beginning.
Revelation 4:11
The reason for creation was to glorify God. This is a bondage, It’s my boundary and my duty to glorify God.
We are in bondage to one another.
We are in bondage to acknowledge and walk in the light. We have no choice. We have no choice concerning the things God sends our way.
John 12:32-36 This is a command, not a suggestion.
We sacrifice for the light. When the light comes on, we recognize certain things about ourselves we didn’t know were there before.
James 1:21-26
The Word of God is a bondage maker. It’s a chain to chain you to God.
2 Peter 2:11
Ecclesiastes 12:13
We are in bondage to fear.
There wouldn’t be so much backsliding if people had a healthy fear of God.
We have finally admitted that we are in bondage.
We are in bondage to those who have the rule over us.
Hebrews 13:7
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 a.m.
Grace
Bro.Jeff Moser
Titus 2:11
Ephesians 2:8-9
Hebrews 10:1,2,4,10,14
Was Christ just another sacrifice?
Matthew 5:17
Luke 24:44
Exodus 3:14 I am
He will become exactly what you need Him to be.
Grace is God’s non legal way of dealing with sin.
Psalm 84:11
Zechariah 4:7
Zechariah 12:10
The liberty in grace is to do what we ought to do, not what we like to do.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 a.m.
The Unity of the Saints
Bro. John Strizu
Genesis 2:7-8, 18
It’s not good for man to be alone. The Lord knew that we needed some help. He knew it’s not good for you to serve God alone.
Ephesians 3:14-18
You are never going to be able to understand or comprehend the fulness of God on you own.
God is not just dealing with people individually altogether.
God has created something that’s called unity, not union.
John 17:20-
Jesus Christ and the Father were not basically like-minded. If there ever was someone that was one, it was Jesus and the Father.
You can preach all the right messages, and believe all the right things, but if there’s no unity, the world is not going to believe.
If we all have the same spirit, then He’s going to show us all the same thing. He won’t show one a different standard of living from another.
1 Corinthians3:1-2
Be careful because the enemy’s after our unity with the saints.
Unity is not just something that we decide that we want. But Jesus Christ died that we may be one.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 p.m.
The Office of the Holy Ghost
Bro. Ray Tinsman
The Spirit of God has confined itself to the Book.
Real religion, real salvation will change the way you live. There’s been a radical change in your life.
John 16:5-15
Man calls the restoration man-rule, and by doing so they have shown their extreme ignorance.
1 John 4:1-3
There are probably more evil spirits in religious circles than there are in the bar rooms and night clubs.
There are a lot of spirits talking and we must know the voice of Him that speaketh.
Genesis 6:3 The Holy Ghost has a way with striving with man.
People backslide and they think they’re going to have a fun time, but what they forget is that there’s still the Spirit of God.
Nobody has ever gotten save that the Spirit of God hasn’t dealt with.
John 15:26
The Holy Ghost is a reminder of the Words of Christ- doesn’t just say words without a foundation. You can know the truth by the Spirit of God.
There are some things that just can’t be understood without the Spirit revealing it to you.
John 3:5-8
When the Holy Ghost gives birth, He gives birth to His own kind The Holy Ghost will give birth to holy people.
The number one characteristic of someone who’s been born of the Spirit is that they must be holy.
The Spirit of God dwells, it doesn’t just come betimes. He doesn’t just visit.
The Spirit of God is not a visitor. The only thing that will cause Him to leave is when there’s sin.
The spirit of the devil can not give birth to holy people.
Unity comes from holiness. Holiness can’t be counterfeited.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 a.m.
The Gift of the Apostles
Sis.Susan Mutch
1 Corinthians 12:1,4-7,27,29
God gives gifts to the church. Not to make someone feel important, or keep them busy, but for the profit of the church.
People don’t mind the gift of th pastor, but when they hear the gift of the apostle,people get nervous.
God uses apostles as planters.
Ephesians 4:8,11
1 Corinthians 1:1
2 Corinthians 1:1
Galatians 1:1
1 Timothy 1:1
Paul did not have a choice as to which place to fill in the body.
If you got a call from God, it was a command. You didn’t pick that place.
2 Corinthians 11:13
Acts 13:50
Acts 14:4
Philippians 2:25
Galatians 1:18-19 James, the Lord’s brother
1 Corinthians 4:6,9
Revelation 18:20
1 Peter 5:1-5
Anyone that God can use in a great way will have great humility.
1 Timothy 5:17,19
Hebrews 13:7,17
1Thessalonians 5:12-13
2 Timothy 4:9, 11-12
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 p.m.
Running the Race
Bro. Rick Wiebe
Hebrews 12:1
There is a race that has been established before you. Everyone of us has a different race. It’s up to you as to what you’re going to do with what the Lord has set before you.
There are different kinds of races and you are expected to go through.
It’s not up to you to choose what kind of race you want. It’s already determined by God. Your race has been specially picked out for you concerning your personality with your weakness in mind. The race has already been established for you, and it’s upto you what you are going to do with it.
Exodus 13:17-18
When God chose the race for you. Don’t go looking for something else.
Races have hurdles. You can choose to go around them but if you do, you will be disqualified. The best thing you can do when you meet up with hurdles is jump.
When you’re in the midst of a trial and battle, just jump.
Once you’re past this one, there’s another one just around the corner, it’s prpbably bigger than the other one. But if you go around the first one you won’t make it through the second one.
1 Corinthians 9:24
When we get to the hurdle, the Lord puts springs to our feet.
What are you running this race for? Are you running with only one thought in mind? Your attitude makes a big difference.
You have to tell yourself, “I am going to win.”
The reason why people are backsliding is because they enter in the race and tell themselves, ” I don’t know if I can make it.”
You are going to have to be concerned about the smallest things. You can’t be looking back.
You have to get your eyes on the goal and be serious about it.
Revelation 4:11
If you’re only running this race because you don’t want to go to hell, you’re going to lose.
Sometimes the Lord wants you to run the race even when no one is cheering you on. Can you stand it when it’s only the Lord that’s cheering you on?
Sometimes you need to get down on your knees and hear the Lord cheering you on because you jumped over a hurdle. Sometimes no one will understand why you jumped.
This race is not just for you, it’s for Him.
2 Timothy 4:7
There’s coming a time where you will end this race.
This is a race of patience.
Thursday, November 27, 2008 a.m.
Make War
Sis. Elfie Tovstiga
Revelation 19:11-15
War does not just happen. There’s someone who has to strike the first blow.
Among the army there’s not one slugish and lukewarm one.
If you’re a part of this army, then you are just as intense and stirred upas He is.
Coming to meeting is making war. When we sing, we make war against the enemy.
It’s important that we make war against formality.
Judges 4:18
It’s very dangerous to just come here and just sit here.
The moment you cease to be aggressive you lose your life.
Never have that spiritually satisfied attitude.
Never settle for a partial victory. We need blazing victories.
Hebrews 3:12
Make war at the evil spirit of unbelief. You will not remain if you don’t.
Isaiah 63:1
The blood stains of the enemy will make the saints so glorious. The blood stains of the enemy is like an ornament to the saints. The more blood stains we have the more glorious the church will be.
Anybody who has been doing well spiritually has been fighting.
Jeremiah 48:10
You can detect the spirit. Find out where your enemy’s coming from before you can even see him, and make war.
As end time saints we have to become more aggressive as we go on.
Watch your desires. Watch your eyes. Sometimes you have to pluck out your eye.
Watch your money making spirit.
Watch your self seeking spirit.
There’s some discipline involved in being in the army.
Seek not to please yourself. Learn to sacrifice.
Strike down that frivolous spirit that’s light.
Make war against moods.
If you fail in your home life you fail everywhere.
If you don’t feel happy, you still have to be happy.
Don’t tolerate children whining.
Watch your vain imaginations.
You make war at not showing up at the sight of temptation. Frustrate the enemy’s plan.
If you’re going to do well spiritually, you’re going to have to fight. If you’re not doing well, you’re receiving blows. You have to fight for what you want.
Thursday, November 27, 2008 a.m.
How to Live Within your Means
Bro. Henry Hildebrandt
If a person soesn’t live within their means, it will greatly affect someone in their spiritual lives.
1 John 2:15
Overspending, living beyond of what you can afford is actually what the world does.
You have to learn how to live according to what you can afford.
It’s not saintly to over spend.
If a credit card controls you, you shouldn’t have one.
The world is squandering, the saints are saving.
Proverbs 3:5
Treat credit cards as a dangerous thing.
Thursday, November 27, 2008 p.m.
Entire Sanctification
Bro. Benjamin Tovstiga
Deuteronomy 2:1-
The children of Israel had no goal or destination in the wilderness.
There’s a danger of going around in circles in the wilderness.
Romans 7:14-17
The blood of Jesus Christ forever stops the fountain of sin.
If you’re not sanctified, then the very thing that makes people pull triggers and do awful sin, is still in you.
Hebrews 6:1,16-19
perfection- the removal of the source of every committed sin.
going on- to be driven, to rush, to move, to reach.
You need a refuge from the carnal nature.
You have only one hope, and that hope is in the holy of holies.
2 Corinthians 7:1
In every heart that’s not sanctified, there should be a fear.
Luke 24:49
Acts 2:1-2
You can only be entirely sanctified on the day of pentecost and no sooner. You need to have a day of Pentecost in your life.
You have to be prepared. It’s an instantaneous experience, but it takes time to get there.
Psalm 118:27
An untied sacrifice is not acceptable to the Lord.
Don’t take sanctification by faith, but you need a witness.
Friday, November 28, 2008 a.m.
Vain Worship
Bro. Ernest Benion
Acts 17:16, 22-23
The reason why we are here is because there were those who were stirred about the whole world being given in to idolatry.
You need to know exactly what you’re doing. It matters how you worship God. Just believing is false doctrine. Just going ot church is vain worship.
Matthew 15:3-9
The problem with vain doctrine is that it produces nothing.
False doctrine comes from the doctrine of men.
It is a part of the false doctrine to bring instruments into the service of the Lord.
Exodus 25:8-
We do not believe in using instruments in the service of the Lord.
So long as Moses lived and reigned there were no instruments in the service.
1 Chronicles 15:16
1 Chronicles 23:25
1 Chronicles 25:1
2 Chronicles 7:6
2 Chronicles 29:25 instruments ordained by David.
Just because David instituted instruments in the service doesn’t mean we get to do it. That would be vain worship; that would be following tradition.
Psalm 103:1
We are to bless the Lord with our soul. When we come to the saints service and we sing, what we’re listening to is souls music.
1 Corinthians 14:15
The reasons why we cannot use instruments in the service, is because the instruments do not accompany the soul. There can be no connection between the dead instrument and the soul.
Eph. 5:19
Acts 8:25
Acts 11:19
Acts 13:42
When we come to sing together, we’re not just singing to God, but we’re singing to each other.
It’s dangerous to hear the singing and not be moved.
Every time we sing it has to be with God on our hearts.
When you call a song, you need to know what you are calling. It’s a dangerous place to call a song.
The only song that God listens to is the song of the redeemed.
When the saints sing, it’s like God tells all of heaven to be quiet so He can listen to the saints singing.
Friday, November 28, 2008 a.m.
Election
Bro. Randy Hargrave
Psalm 25:14
The Bible has a lot of secrets in it.
The covenant is a revelation from God tot he individual heart.
Romans 9:11
It doesn’t matter altogether if people don’t understand. God’s purpose is still going to stand.
Hebrews 13:8
Exodus 25:9
Revelation 10:9
Genesis 4:1-5
The first election took place and it was Paul.
God doesn’t need our help to pick the right person.
If Cain didn’t have a choice, why did God talk to him?
What would you do to be accepted?
Matthew 23:33-35
Genesis 6:8-9
If you missed the opportunity to get saved, you missed it.
There’s a lot of people who are to proud to come under the elect.
Romans 9:1
You’ve got to get together with those who are flourishing.
Romans 11:1
Pick the picked.(Jesus)
Friday, November 28, 2008 p.m.
Face to Face
Bro. Steve Hargrave
Proverbs 27:19
The heart of man does not look back and answer with someone else’s face.
Your heart is like water sending back the image of yourself.
You are what your heart is. You are only as good as your heart is.
Matthew 12:34
Your heart is the source of your words.
Exodus 34:29-33
God in His mercy chose to look like Moses. The people couldn’t stand to look at Moses’ face because their heart and mind was not ready to receive, or to look at him, because the face of Moses and the face of God were one face.
2 Corinthians 3:14
Numbers 6:22-27
There’s nothing better than His face to shine on you. That will help you go through anything.
Genesis 2:7
After you have looked into His face you will never be the same.
If there ever was a face you need to see, it is Jesus Christ.
The moment you look into the face of Jesus Christ, it is the most blessed and the most dangerous day.
There’s only one way that you can be beautiful, if you can see the face of Jesus Christ.
It’s impossible to live free from sin, unless you can get face to face with Jesus Christ.
There are a lot of people who want to see the face of Jesus, but are not seeing it because the works of the devil has not been destroyed in their lives.
What we want is people who are conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 a.m.
Separation
Bro. Abe Redecop
Matthew 10:34-38
Everyone needs to have a sword experience.
Psalm 106:34-37
Deuteronomy 7:1-5
Matthew 13:24-47
We need to separate ourselves from where we were.
The ministry isn’t going ot altogether do the binding for you. They will help you and tell you how, but you will have to do it yourself.
You have come to the fulfillment of the prophecy, you can shine.
There’s a fear today of giving up everything.
Do you want to fit in? Then let go of everything that you need to let go of.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 p.m.
Spiritual Discernment
Bro. John Strizu
1 Timothy 4:1
There are many spirits that are out there waiting to deceive.
The spirit of God is active, not passive.
1 John 4:1
It’s not just the Holy Spirit that’s speaking out there, but there are many spirits.
In order for something to be deceptive it has to be close to the real thing.
The reason why peoplearen’t recognizing the Holy Ghost is because they’re not children of God.
If the Spirit of God is not speaking to you, youre in a terrible place.
If you have not been baptized of the Holy Ghost, you’re in a position where the Lord has a lot to say to you, but He is not able to.
You and I can’t afford to not hear what He has to say to us.
Sunday, November 30, 2008 a.m.
Parental Burden
Bro. Patrick O’Shea
Exodus 1:15-22
The world has put out a decree that our children should not live; that they shoud die.
The world is doing everything possible to keep our children from being saved.
The devil’s desire is to slow the restoration down.
You can live so close to God that the devil will flee in flight from your very presence.
Every counter reaction must be met with an equal and greater reaction.
The devil must bow.
The Lord wants us to be a terror of discouragement to the devil.
A parent without a burden is not a real parent.
Children, you need to have a burden for your siblings.
What is a saint without a burden?
You are a product of someone’s burden. That’s why you’re here.
Sunday, November 30, 2008 p.m.
Who Jesus Really Is
Bro. Allen Bontrager
It’s our responsibility to God to show the world who Jesus is. Until He lives in you, you can’t show the world who Jesus is.
Revelation 1:11
Matthew 16:13-16
It takes a divine revelation.
John 24:20
Acts 14:8-11,15
It’s our duty to do cataract surgery.
Romans 1:3-4
Jesus is the spirit of holiness. Jesus is not a spare tire.
1 Corinthians 12:12
Acts 10:38
