You Know not What Manner of Spirit You Are

Eph 1:17-18
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Last week in Heart-Thoughts of DK I wrote a message titled Revelations Right Results Right and I made this statement that if we as children of God are not getting the results that we are desiring in our relationship with God then the core problem is misconceptions and misunderstandings about God and the way that God operates concerning us and what that all boils down to a lack of knowledge on our part.

That is an awesome revelation and the reason that so many people live there lives in this condition is because of misconceptions concerning God and those misconceptions hinder their relationship with God.

Heb 7:16-18
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

The word of God is telling us that Jesus Christ was not made a high priest after the law of a carnal commandment nor was He made a High Priest after the Leviticus Law; He was made a High Priest forever after the order of Melchisedec and through the power of an endless life.

Verse 18
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

To what is the disannulling?
The disannulling is to the commandment going before or in other words concerning the Old Testament commands,

That word disannulling in the Greek is athetaysis and it means to cancel, to put away and the reason that there is a cancellation of the commandment going before is because of the weakness and powerlessness that existed in the previous commandments

In other words let me bring something to you that will shock you
The Old Testament commandments are not for the New Testament believers

This is powerful and yet very few are going to take the time to study out what I am saying and come to the truth that will literally change their lives.

I need to say it again so that there is no confusion the Old Testament commands are not for New Testament believers.

This is one of the reasons that there is so much confusion about God today,
The things that God did and had to do in the Old Testament because of the covenant that existed at that time many of God’s children have no understanding concerning those things and because they do not understand they have wrong conceptions concerning the covenant in the New Testament.

Verse 19
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

The word of God is clear, the law made nothing perfect. It brought no hope, no life and no expectation but the bringing in of a better hope did by which we can draw nigh unto God and the better hope brought unto us was the opportunity to have intimacy with Almighty God.

Heb 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

The first covenant prophesied the end of itself and prophesied that there was something better that was coming and yet multitudes of Christians today are still trying to relate and to have relationship with God through the first covenant that was disannulled.

The reason that the old covenant was disannulled is because the first covenant was not compatible with the second covenant, the two covenants do not contradict each other but it is the second covenant that fulfills the first covenant and the first covenant compliments and ushers in the second covenant.

But if you try to live your life according to the Old Testament and the New Testament at the same time you are going to have ideas about God that are not accurate and complete because the two covenants can not be mixed together.
Many of our ideas about God come from the Old Testament and those ideas do not give a complete and accurate representation of God.

Jesus Christ is the total and complete expression and perfect representation of the glory of the Father

John 14:9
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

Here is a truth that very few of God’s children really grasp,
If Christ would have been present in His physical body in the Old Testament a great deal of the things that were done by men of God and who were anointed by God in the Old Testament would have been rebuked by Christ

And the reason that they would have been rebuked is because they did not give a true representation of the Father

Heb 8:8
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

This verse not only applies to the house of Israel but this verse applies to every born again child of God, for we are the heirs of Abraham through faith and have been grafted into the house of Israel

Look at the verse,
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

For all that are of this house shall know me personally, intimately and be in close communion with me.
We do not have to depend on some one telling us about God, some one relating to us about God, some one teaching us about God for they shall know me from the least to the greatest.

Heb 8:12-13
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

This is a radical statement being made by God,
I will be merciful to there unrighteousness and I will remember there iniquities no more and what that means is that if you are born again that means past, present and future.

And if you do not believe that your future sins are forgiven then you also have to concur that no one in this day and age can be saved because He took care of the sin issue two thousand years ago.

Most of Gods children believe that God holds their sins against them, that God holds them accountable and responsible for their sins and that God holds back blessing and refuses to answer prayers based upon sins that He holds against them.

For some reason we as children of God still feel that God relates to us based upon our sins and failures,
This is one of the reasons that we hold and esteem prayer and fasting and tithing in such high regard because if we are not doing these things that is the reason that God has not moved as He should be moving in our lives

We have in our mentality that God moves according to the good that we have been doing and that is a misrepresentation of the gospels and the character of God

And just to set the record straight no I do not believe in once saved always saved and neither do I believe that you can live your life anyway that you want regardless of sin
The word of God is very clear that sin kills and destroys and those who deliberately sin are stupid because sin will cost you more than what you are willing to pay.

I need to say it again,
We have in our mentality that God moves according to the good that we have been doing and that is a misrepresentation of the gospels and the character of God

The word of God tells us that He will be merciful to our unrighteousness and our sins and iniquities and He will remember them no more

Heb 8:13
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Here is truth
For the most part the child of God and even many preachers have very little understanding concerning the relationship between the Old and the New covenant and because of the misunderstandings that we have we have been getting wrong results in our relationship with God and those wrong results have brought much confusion and division concerning our relationship with God.

Please have understanding,
No matter what your perception of God is He is still God and He is not changed by your perception of Him but the huge difference is that you can not receive right results from God when you have wrong revelations or perceptions of Him

If you do not think that God still works miracles that does not change the fact that He is still El Shaddai and He is still the miracle worker
The only thing that is going to matter is that you are not going to receive any of those miracles that you do not believe that He still performs

If you do not think that speaking in tongues is of God that does not change who God is nor does it change what the word of God says concerning speaking in tongues the only thing that comes out of that is that you are not going to speak in tongues and come into the completeness and the fullness of all that He desires to give you through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

You can not have what you do not believe and you can not believe beyond your concept of Him

Awesome truth

If you believe that every negative experience that has ever happened to you is because there is something that you have to learn, something that you have to go through, make no doubt about it, God will be there for you, God will comfort you and He will guide you through it but that is not who God is

God is who God is regardless of what you think and one more thing God will not be anything to you that you do not believe that He is.

Heb 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

That is an awesome word,
What you do not pursue through your perception of Him you can not have for as a man so thinks in his heart so he is.

Prov 23:7
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

I can not tell you the multitudes of people, who pray like this,
Lord I just don’t think I can do this, Lord make me to have revelation, Lord make me to see it, make me to walk it, make me to understand it, I give you my will make me to get this.

It is not going to happen
That is not who God is, your impression of God is going to be what you receive and experience with God

Listen to the word of God,
Matt 7:8-11
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Luke 11:10-13
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

The majority of Gods children do not see God in this light instead they see Him as the one who withholds blessings and takes away things if a certain standard is not met.

Most of Gods children relate to Him through the Old Testament instead of through the New Testament, they get saved through amazing grace and then relate to Him through the law and performance

I believe that there is no one misrepresented more than God and I believe that once God is truly revealed as to who He is and to what His true nature really is, then His children will begin to walk in the awesome revelation of the good Father who is not imputing there iniquities unto them and is reconciling His children unto himself through His Son

I Jn 4:8-9
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

We say that God is love, to the sinner we proclaim that God is love and then out the other side of our mouth we proclaim that if America does not repent and turn from her wicked ways the judgments of God are going to fall upon this evil nation, in fact they are already falling through hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, draughts and floods.

We proclaim the bird flu as a judgment of God; we proclaim every epidemic as God trying to get our attention.

No wonder the world has a difficult time trying to understand our definition of the love of God when the love of God according to the church is saving us on one hand and destruction on the other.

I Jn 4:9
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

In this was the love of God manifested towards us that He sent His Son in to the world that we might live through Him,
We say that God loves us,
We say that He is merciful and that His great grace has brought us into His presence and then we say things that undermine that love and pollute that love and take away the benefit of that love.

We as children of God need to get some things understood so that we can start to get right results from our relationship with God.

I need to say this again,
If Jesus would have been present in the Old Testament He would have rebuked a lot of the things that took place in the Old Testament and to many this statement is incredible and hard to believe and the reason is because they do not understand God in the Old Testament and they do not see the true nature of God in the New Testament.

II Ki 1:2-3
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

Ahaziah who is the king of the ten northern tribes of Israel has fallen through the lattice in his upper chamber and because of that fall has sustained severe injuries and so he sends his messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether or not he will recover from these injuries

In case you do not know who Ahaziah is he is the son of Ahab, the ten northern tribes of Israel have fallen into paganism through his father and now the son reigns as king.

And the Lord tells Elijah to arise and go intercept the messengers of Ahaziah and ask them this question.

Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

This is what is being said,
Why do you go to the pagan god of Samaria is there not a God in Israel

VERSE 4
Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
This is interesting
The king’s men give a very small description of a man and they describe him as hairy and girt about his loins with a girdle of leather and the king immediately makes this observation and says
it is Elijah

There has been a long feud between Elijah the prophet of God and the family of Ahab,
It was Elijah that stopped the rain from falling on the land of Israel, it was Elijah that killed the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel who were the priests of Jezebel
It is Elijah who confronts Ahab when he goes down to take possession of Naboths vineyard

Let me bring the word of God to you
IKing 21:1-7
And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

So Jezebel has Naboth killed and gives his vineyard to Ahab and as he takes possession of the vineyard Elijah shows up.

IKing 21:16-19
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

VERSE:23
And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

And that is exactly what takes place when Ahab is killed in battle and they brought his chariot into the garden to clean off the blood in the exact place that Naboth was killed dogs licked the blood of Ahab
Later on when King Jehu took possession of the city of Samaria Jezebel painted herself up and as Jehu cried out who is on the Lord’s side,
Jezebel was thrown out of the two story window and Jehu took his chariot and ran over her again and again and again until she was dead and the dogs ate her

This is the relationship that Elijah had with the family of Ahab

Now I can imagine that this is the reason that Ahaziah went to the god of Ekron to inquire about his injuries because the relationship between Elijah and the family of Ahab to say the least was not a good one and that relationship continued to spiral downward even through Ahab’s son.

Look at
II Ki 1:9-17
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken.

Here is the judgment of God falling out of heaven according to the words of the prophet Elijah and to many this is the nature of God in reality,

Fire falling out of heaven consuming all in His path,
His righteousness consuming all that stands in His way, the words of His anointed one the prophet bringing forth destruction and judgment to all those who do not surrender and repent and if you do not know scripture this is the impression that you will have of God.

But look at.
Luke 9:51-53
And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

The reason that they did not receive Him is found in
John 4:5
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria,( Remember the city of Samaria is the city that Ahab and Ahaziah reigned in) which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

This is the woman that Christ ministered to and she went in and told the entire city about the things that He had told her,

VERSE:28
The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

VERSE 39
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
And many more believed because of his own word;

The entire city was turned around and believed on Him but now that his face is turned towards Jerusalem and crucifixion they do not receive Him

Now look at
Luke 9:54-56
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

In the Old Testament fire fell from heaven and consumed them,
When the disciples wanted to do the same thing Elijah did Jesus rebuked them and said you do not know what manner of spirit that you are

I have not come to destroy mans lives but to save them.

And I dare say today that many of Gods children do not know what manner of spirit that they are

Eph 1:17-18
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
I wonder if God’s people comprehend that the view and the impression that they have of God is the result of how and what they receive from God.

That is powerful information!
The impression that you have of God is the direct result of what you receive from God

2 Pet 1:1-2
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

The word of God is telling us in 2 Pet 1:1 that the way that grace and peace are multiplied unto us is through the knowledge of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ

That is powerful and yet many of Gods people are trying to get grace and peace increased in there lives through prayer, through fasting, through conferences and seminars, through someone praying for them, through ministry and the list goes on and on and on.
How is grace and peace increased in your life?

Grace and peace are increased in your life through the knowledge that you have of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Which equates to a powerful truth?
If you have wrong knowledge you are going to get the wrong results and when you have right knowledge you will get right results.

Let me give you something awesome,
How does faith come, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17)
Why does faith come?
Faith comes because faith is based upon knowledge and wrong knowledge always produces wrong faith.

And if we as children of God are not getting the results that we are desiring I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that the core problem is a misconception, a misunderstanding about God and the way that God operates concerning us and that all boils down to a lack of knowledge.

Hos 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

Look at,
2 Pet 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

The word according in the Greek means to the proportion of or to the degree of,
So according to the proportion of or to the degree of His divine nature He hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.

In other words all things that pertain unto life and godliness are given unto us through the knowledge that we have of Him.

If you have a need for healing, then your need is not about being healed, your need is about understanding the character of your creator, your need is about understanding who He is so that you can have knowledge of Him to receive from Him.

If you have a need concerning deliverance then your need is about knowing Him and understanding who He is because every problem that you have relates back to you not understanding and knowing who He is which goes back to the place where you do not know who you are.

Worry, anxiety, fear, rejection, discouragement and depression would not be a factor in your life if you understood how faithful and full of love God is

If you really understood the passion, the integrity and the loyalty of God concerning you, if these things were really established in your heart then the fear, worry, frustration and anxiety that you are going through would be totally taken out of the picture and they would be dominated by the love and loyalty that God has for you.

Where do fear, worry, anxiety, frustration and rejection come from?
We can say that they come from the devil and he certainly is the source of all these things but the real answer is that these things come from a lifestyle of misconceptions and misunderstandings concerning Gods love for you.
They have been birthed out of falsehoods and half truths that have been sowed into our lives concerning Gods love for us.

And let me deal with one of these misconceptions.
If you are one of these people who believe that the sovereignty of God controls everything in this world then I guarantee you that you are not going to have a very good impression of God

This is probably one of the most popular doctrines in the church world today and many believe that God is in control of everything that happens or that He allows it to happen.

Many of Gods children are in total confusion concerning this doctrine and there conception and impression of God is in the negative because of things that they do not understand.

Do I believe in the sovereignty of God?
Yes I do as long as you have the right explanation for the word sovereignty, that there is none that is above Him, that He is Almighty, that He is all powerful and all glory belongs to Him, that no one dictates to God, that no one pulls the strings of God and no one controls God.

If that is your definition of the sovereignty of God then I believe in the sovereignty of God but I do not believe that God is the cause of everything that is going on in this world, all the floods and disasters, all the fires, all the hurricanes, all the tornados and tsunamis, all the sickness devastation deformities and death that is taking place amongst children.

Absolutely not

Do I believe that before anything that happens must have the approval of God before it can happen?

Absolutely not

James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Where do fighting’s and wars come from?

According to the doctrine of sovereignty that exists in much of the church today it comes from God, all the disasters come from God ranging from earthquakes to flooding, most churches believe that devastation in one way or another comes from God because they are His judgments, judgments upon nations, judgments upon individuals, judgments because of sin.
But the word of God tells us that they come from amongst us, they come from the lusts that war within our own members.

One of the most asked questions that comes from the child of God when some one dies of sickness,
When some one is taken early in their life is why did God allow this to happen.

God did not allow it to happen, God has provided for every child of God to walk free of sickness, to walk in the liberty of divine health,
God did not bring sickness into this world, we did.

Why do we blame God for deformed babies when He is the one who brought us life?

John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Why do we blame God for failure when He gave us perfection?
Why do we blame God for corruption when He created in the realm of excellence?

The doctrine of blaming God for everything that is going on in this world is one of the most damnable heresies that exist in the church world today.
So most of the things that are going on in this world today we call them judgments, we call them the results of sin, we call them the wrath of God because of our sinful nature and many call them paybacks.
And yet the truth is that Christ paid the penalty for sin, Christ made atonement for the sinner,
Christ entered in once into the holy place and through the shedding of his blood obtained eternal salvation.

Heb 9:12
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Then if all these things that are taking place in the world are about judgments and the wrath of God being poured out because of sin then that means that the blood of Christ was not sufficient to deal with the sin problem that had separated us from God

That means that the sacrifice that Christ made was not sufficient to satisfy the Father and it also means that His work is not finished.

And that is a lie from the pits of hell.

Is there coming a day when the wrath of God will be poured out because of the evilness of man
Yes

Is there coming a day when the earth will see such fury as it has not seen since its existence.
Yes

But it will not be until the end of the age of the church and seven years before the millennium.
And if you believe that all things in this world are in the control of God then it is going to effect your perception of God and the way that you receive from God and these things are going to affect your confidence level, you’re assurance level, you’re level of stability and you’re belief level.

Why will these things affect you?
Because you’re conscience will condemn you and bring condemnation.

If you want shocking news,
The number one place where God is being is blamed for the multitude of things that are taking place in the world today is the church.
It is the church that is misrepresenting the character and the nature of God, it is the church that has brought the condemnation and guilt to multitudes of believers, and it is the church that hammers you if you do this and if you do that,
God will move if you are doing right and if God is not moving it is because of something that you are doing.

I need to say it again,
It is the church that is misrepresenting the character and the nature of God

I have been a pastor for 21 years
I have been born again for 31 years and in that time like many of you I have had a heart for God, but about nine years ago I had an encounter with God in Baltimore Maryland as I was preparing for a crusade and it changed my life.
It literally changed me and in that transformation I immediately knew some things that I had been struggling with for many years.

Yes I was a Pastor and Evangelist and there were things that I was struggling with,
When I had this encounter with God I was instantly delivered of a performance mentality Christianity and as I was searching for the more instantly I came into the revelation of the more and in that revelation I was free indeed and in that freedom came the revelation of His word

I Jn 3:1-2
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for

when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

That word for means that this is the reason that we will be like Him for we shall see Him as He is

Very few of Gods people see Him as He really is and that is the reason that very few of Gods children see themselves like Him.

Here is an awesome truth if you will ponder the words that I have just given you
When He shall appear and I am not talking about some time in the future, when He returns, I am speaking about when he shall appear in your heart, in revelation knowledge you will see Him as He is and you will see that you are like Him

Why does the word say that no man shall see God and live?

Exod 33:20
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

Most people who read this scripture relate this scripture as meaning that no man can see God and live either he will die or be killed by God

And yet Christ came so that we could have intimate relationship with God
Christ came to reconcile us back into relationship with God.

John 14:19
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

So what does this scripture mean in?
I Jn 3:2
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

It means that when you really come to the place where you really see God as He is, when you really see Him in His love, in His glory, in his faithfulness, in his mercy,
When He shall appear, when He manifests Himself within you and you see Him you will be like him for you shall see Him as He really is and you will be changed into that image.

That is what happened to me in Baltimore Maryland
When He appeared I saw Him as He really is and I became like Him because I saw him as He really is

When you see Him as He really is in you it will literally transformed you in to His image and you will see who He is and who you are in Him.