January 27, 2002

Hello:

My name is A. C. X, and I live in Yukon, Oklahoma. Is there anyone in Yukon, Oklahoma, or elsewhere in Oklahoma, with whom you are affiliated or acquainted and with whom you would recommend I visit? Thank you.

acx

Hi AC:

Unfortunately, there is no one there that I know of, even though I feel sure that God has His "seven thousand that have not kneeled before Baal" somewhere. When I attended Oral Robert Grad School of Theology, I met some good folks north of Tulsa from the old pentecostal school who had love and faith, even though they did not understand much of the true doctrine, and those old folks are surely gone on to be with the Lord by now. That's as close as I could possibly come to knowing who out that way has heard from Jesus concerning the things he has taught us here. Why do you ask, if you don't mind telling me?

Pastor John

A.C.X wrote:

Hello again,

I don't really know how to express it all in only a few words, but, the long and the short of it is, I want "the baptism of the holy Ghost." The below expresses what I'm aiming for fairly concisely.

"The baptism of the holy Ghost is for you, and so are we. It is essential that you know that nothing but the baptism of the holy Ghost will cleanse your soul. It is the baptism of the holy Ghost that makes a man a member of the body of Christ (1Cor. 12:13), and it is the baptism of the holy Ghost that washes from our hearts the stain of sin (Acts 22:16), removing even the desire for sin from the heart of man. The baptism of the Spirit is the experience which makes a man a new creature in Christ Jesus, fit to live in eternity among the saints." -- excerpt from http://www.isaiah58.com/tracts/speakingintongues.html

Unfortunately, I do not know anyone here in Oklahoma who meets the "and so are we" criteria of the above quoted material. And given much of the content of your website, I thought, perhaps, you knew of someone here in Oklahoma with whom I could visit.

Thank you.

acx

Pastor John wrote:

AC:

You don't need to belong to a group anywhere in order to receive the holy Ghost. A number of godly people I know received the holy Ghost alone, in bed at night or praying in their homes.

In his first letter, John tells us three things that will always lead to receiving the Spirit. (1) Believe that Jesus is the Christ, (2) Do righteousness, and (3) love the brotherhood, or the family of God. In each case, John says that whoever does this is born of God. Do these things and then expect Jesus to fill you with his Spirit! And let me know when that happens!

Pastor John
PastorJohnsHouse.com

January 15, 2002

Brother Rob:

The fear of the Lord entered into my heart when I read that article on Islam and the public schools!

Brought this scripture to my mind:

Jer.12

[5] If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

Now is an easy time to serve the Lord, as Brother John has said. But the "swelling of Jordan" is coming and we are going to have to be mature in the Spirit and "the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth." We are going to have to grow up in Christ, Brother Rob, so "that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. . . ." It is time to put away childish things!

I have never been so blessed by the above verses in Ephesians 4 as I have been this week. It is time to put behind us the little things that keep robbing us of the joy and peace of the Lord! Well, my, my, if we cannot even overcome the small, petty things of this flesh, how in the world are we going to endure the persecution that is surely to come? We are going to need every experience in Jesus, every feeling from the Spirit, and every bit of the Power of God to endure what is coming on this earth! And it is time for our children to know the importance of the Power of God.

There is a time when the joy of the Lord is our Strength, and there is a time when God said, "Their strength is to sit still." Our strength and our trust can only be in the Lord. Listening to and following the Spirit is our only help, Brother Rob, and I am so thankful that we have that counsel and guidance to lead us every day. We have no problems if we have the Spirit. We just need to listen!

My prayer is that we all mature spiritually in the Body so that we can be "fitly joined together" in Love. I am thankful for every brother and sister that the Lord has given me, and for my part in the Body. To "keep on keeping on" as Preacher Clark told me many years ago seemed such a small thing. But, oh my, how much wisdom that man of God had! He had those "real" experiences with Jesus and knew the Power of God! Going forward in God as He draws us closer and closer to the Goal, to our Home, and to our Eternity with Him!! Now what of this earth is worth trading for that Reward!! Praise God, Brother Rob!

Sorry I got longwinded, but the Spirit in me today just feels like traveling on!!

Sure do love you,
See you tonight!
Sister Sandy :)

Rob's response:

Amen on every word, Sister Sandy! I keep feeling such a strong desire to get well established in the Truth. "Deep rooted" is the phrase that keeps coming to my mind the past few weeks. Jesus wants people who love Him and his Father so much, that nothing else really matters when a choice has to be made concerning all the little decisions we make every day of our life. At the end of the day all of our decisions should be based on Jesus. Making Jesus and his Father happy, that is our number one job on this planet. There is coming a day when we are going to have to know "what we believe" and "why we believe, what we believe". The roots of the Truth are going to need to be deeeeeeep in our hearts. Now is the time to prepare and now is the time to seek more understanding and knowledge of what Jesus has for us. The storm is coming, prepare now! Things will not always be as they are now.

That is one of the many wonderful things of the truth; you can never get enough and you should never stop wanting more and more. Whew, your e-mail really stirred me up. I am glad you are on the team. Two more phrases that are running through my mind after reading your wonderful e-mail:

-Do not be picky eaters! Eat what is put on the table.

-Do not think you have enough of Jesus for now, so tonight/today you'll just hold back and let someone else have some! HA :)

AMEN!

Rob

December 2, 2001

Damien Callaghan wrote:

Pastor John:

Looking at that zodiac site and some others I found has shown me so clearly one truth that Satan will never allow his ministers to use. Different ones of them have certain pieces of truth; they have worked out prophetic stuff that appears quite amazing, they read the prophets with fine tooth combs, but you know they just cannot read [and understand] 1John at all [concerning the spirit of antichrist].

It seems all Christian ministers synonymise the Antichrist with the Beast. They, perhaps correctly, speak of New World Orders, the zodiac and other star signs and conspiracies and Satanic counterfeits [and from left field, pyramids on Mars!!!???] but none teach that the greatest counterfeit of all is Spiritual and involves "fake passports" to enter the body of Christ. These people so quickly read over the word "antichrist" [and John's definition of it], substituting Satan's attention-shifting redefinition that they miss it completely. And, of course, if you say something to them, you are part of Satan's work against their "divinely ordained ministry".

The day God gives you or whomever the power to really preach this to the world, "hell" will break loose. Satan will be furious to say the least when the truth about the body the Christ, and what it is, and how you get into it are made known widely and loudly.

Interesting days to come.

djc

Damien:

Yes, I agree. The truth about the new birth will be the key to God's children realizing that they must come out of Christianity, if they want to be united in the Christ, if they want to please God, and if they want to serve Jesus in spirit and in truth. Satan seems to be able to endure almost any of the blessings God gives His people except the truth. The truth is what makes us free, and the truth is what binds the prince of darkness.

Oh, God, help Your people! Trying to open their eyes, Jesus has, instead, infuriated many of his own children by sending them messengers with his truth for them. They do not recognize the love of God when they see it because love, too, has been redefined by Satan's ministers. (Have you ever heard the first sermon that I preached, in 1993, after Jesus revealed the truth about Christianity to me? It is called "Destruction by Redefinition").

Solomon said that the man who increases in wisdom increases in sorrow. How true that is! It is a precious blessing to have our eyes opened by Jesus to understand the truth of the gospel, but then, it hurts to see the condition of our brothers and sisters. But what can we do? Many of them will die defending Satan's right to be in the body of Christ.

jdc

October 30, 2001

JOE wrote:

Hello Pastor John,

I and OFS had some bible study on Sunday the 21/10/01. OFS told me he had some questions that he would like to ask, so when we had time alone at home we studied. We looked over 1 John 4 regarding the issue of Christianity being the antichrist and in addition to what we have heard from the you on tape, it was such a blessing when we could read them out from the bible ourselves. One part that really touched me was the explanation of the words “every spirit that CONFESSETH that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh”. We had some problem with the word confesseth as we have known that word to mean by Christian standard to verbalize something without being moved by His Spirit. The confusion and burden was lifted when we look up the word (confess) in the concordance and it says that it means to Acknowledge. Also we looked up the reference in the verse where the above quote was taken (1 John 4:2b) which was in 1 Corinthians 12:3, it showed us that to confess Christ means to “speaking by the Holy Ghost”. Again I am left with wonder where these Christians get their meaning to words like confess Christ and accept Christ from.

We also read Romans 10:9 which is the most popular verse that the Christians quote to say that if one confess his sins and accept Christ, he shall be saved. The first word that we noted there is the word SHALL (future tense). Does it not mean that even if their definition of confess is correct, that one does not get saved as soon as he confess (but shall be saved). As we dwelt on that Romans 10:9-10 thinking if the Christians were correct after all, the Spirit made us to read further down some verses. It was when we read it to verse 17 that we discovered that there is more to it than the eyes of the Christians could see. Verses 9-17 is like a ladder. The word Confess is at the top of the ladder. The Christians do not see the other items from the bottom of the ladder which one must climb (pass through first before getting to the top. They did not see that 1) sent from God, 2) to preach the Word of God not bible 3) the Word will be heard by people in other to believe; 4) believing then will make the person to call on the Lord (pray); 5) sincere call from the heart of the sinner will be answered by God’s righteousness 6) God’s righteousness (His Spirit) will then confess (acknowledge) to such a one that truly that It (Holy Spirit) has arrived in the soul of that person.

Among other things, we saw the true meaning of “and how shall they preach, except they be sent?” in verse 15. Christian ministers use that verse to collect money from people to send out some people whom they call missionaries to preach their denominational gospel and not that of Jesus. Here we discovered that “except they be sent” means that except the Father anoints on to preach His word, such a one is not sent.

J O E

Brother J. O. E.:

You are learning much, and well. Keep it up.

You will be interested to learn that the phrase "calling on the name of the Lord" is a Biblical phrase that refers to something that man cannot do without God's help. According to Zephaniah 3:9, the holy Spirit must inspire even that.

Pastor John

October 15, 2001

DC wrote:

Hey Pastor John

In the course of talking with brother Peter he has sent me certain comments he has received regarding Xtns,Muslims etc.

One of these, from a lecturer at one of the most highly regarded Pentecostal colleges in Aust., contained the following comment. "She rejects the Bible which is the ONLY basis of our belief"

I don't agree that the bible is the only basis of our belief. I don't feel it is a basis at all. I think the Spirit is the true basis of our belief and that the Scriptures become useful because the Spirit gives us the faith to believe them and know that God inspired them. I would appreciate your insight on this issue.

We have had some follow up rain as well. The Lord has been gracious to us.

DC

DC:

Anyone who has the Bible as the basis for their faith will fall. Jesus condemned the Jewish leaders of his day who trusted in the Scriptures to save them. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that he didn't come to them with eloquent orations but with the power of the holy Ghost "that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God."

During WWII, my father was engaged in conversation with two ministers who were worried about their ministries because Hitler, it was rumored at the time, would do away with all Bibles. They asked my father what would he do if all Bibles were destroyed. He responded, "Preach the gospel." He could continue to preach without a Bible because "the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." The Bible didn't send him to preach; Jesus did. If a man's ministry is dependent upon having a Bible, he has no ministry ordained of God. The power of God is a threat to every man's ministry who is without it. Paul condemned the work of those who had a "word only" ministry. There is almost no real preaching being done on earth at this time, compared to what must be, if the body of Christ is to do well. What we see instead of preaching is teaching, and most of that is false.

The power of God is the only sure basis of faith. It is one's personal experience with the holy Ghost power that produces in the heart a sure foundation for faith. God's people need power from God, and need it desperately. I cannot stress that too much.

Pray that Jesus will touch us with his power.

Pastor John

August 1, 2001

My dear sister Nic'kole,

I had a difficult time chatting with you yesterday. Our Internet kept acting up. I do apologize and look forward to chatting with you today or any other day.

Because of the way our discussion ended yesterday and considering what I said about someone not being born again until he/she speaks in tongues, I would like to explain it further.

In my KJV bible, John 3:3 has this to say: "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born 1again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." There is a small figure 1 before the word Again in that verse. In the centre reference another word for the word AGAIN is FROM ABOVE. This mean that we can render John 3:3 in this manner: Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born FROM ABOVE, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

From the examples that we have in the bible, to be born again means to be JOINED in the Body of Christ. This joining, being born again or regenerated is a spiritually thing and should be viewed with spiritual eyes. If you read John 3:1-11 carefully, you will notice that Jesus talked about two births (verses 5&6). Those two births were referred there as "born of water" and "of the Spirit" or "born of the flesh" and "born of the Spirit". Putting all together we have born of water to mean natural birth (you know water comes out before natural birth) and born of the Spirit to mean to be born of God in the heart. Every human has the first experience but not so many have the second.

After these two distinctions, Jesus went ahead to tell Nicodemus and others listening to him how one can know that he/she is born of the Spirit (born again). And still using physical example, Jesus used WIND in verse 8: "The WIND bloweth where it listeth, and THOU HEAREST THE SOUND THEREOF, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is every one that is BORN OF THE SPIRIT" (CAPS here and in other places are mine for emphasis).

And if you remember correctly the Acts 2 experience, it was recorded like this in Acts 2:2-4 "And suddenly there came a SOUND from heaven as of a rushing mighty WIND, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." The above shows the disciples of Christ got born again on the day of Pentecost according to God's standard, though man through Xty will teach us otherwise.

You might be quick to ask, "so the disciples were not born again while they are doing the good work of God with Jesus"? My answer according to the scriptures will be YES. Permit me to explain it so that you will understand it better. We were told in Hebrews 9:15-17: 15And for this cause he is THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of ETERNAL INHERITANCE. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of NECESSITY BE THE DEATH OF THE TESTATOR. 17 For a testament is of force AFTER MEN ARE DEAD: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

From the above, we can see that Jesus needed to die first, be buried, resurrected and appear before the Father and be accepted as the sacrifice (Atonement) before believers can have spiritual Body to be born into. What actually happened in Acts 2 experience is that Jesus ascended to the Father some days before. Father accepted His sacrifice (atonement for our sins) and had to send the holy Spirit to the disciples to confirm to them that Jesus' sacrifice has been accepted. His sending the Holy Spirit is to fulfil "they which are called might receive the promise of ETERNAL INHERITANCE". This means that NO one was Born Again until Jesus' sacrifice was accepted by the Father.

I would also like to show you another scripture to help your understanding. That scripture is in 1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized INTO ONE BODY, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 27 Now ye are the BODY OF CHRIST, and members in particular.

From that we can see that it is the baptism with the holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues that takes us into the Body of Christ and makes us members of that Body. It also simply means that those today who love God, who are in several denominations doing the best they can for God but do not speak in tongues are like the disciples before they received the holy Spirit baptism. They are showing God their desire and interest to be accepted into His Kingdom. I will say to you and others what Jesus said to the disciples in Acts 1:4-5 "And being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but WAIT FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER WHICH, saith he, YE HAVE HEARD OF ME, FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTISED WITH WATER, BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTISED WITH THE HOLY GHOST NOT MANY DAYS HENCE". Keep seeking Him and one of these days, like he sent a confirmation to the disciples, He will send the same to you.

I know you have questions. Correct?

J O E

Lagos, Nigeria.

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