I'm so glad you're here!
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for bringing us in safety and health to this place of fellowship.
We are thankful that we can surrender our lives to You in our worship. As we gather, let us take a moment to remember all of those who could not be with us today. For those who are sick, we pray for their healing so that they may gather again to praise You. Challenge us, comfort us and support us as we work to honor You. Inspire us to learn more about Your majestic ways and the beauty of Your grace. We pray and ask all of this in Your Name
Amen
"You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you."
Matthew 10:18-20
Spirit Of Your Father
"Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
Life and Judgment Are Through the Son
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me."John 5:19-30
All these words can only be understood if we just look at the thought of a FATHER'S SON having HIS FATHER'S characteristics.
Jesus said that HIS FATHER had given Him authority
The SON can do nothing of Himself.
The Son raises the dead and gives life to them because the FATHER does so.
All men will honor the SON because they HONOR the Father.
Son cannot seek His own self, but seek the Father who SENT HIM.
This is speaking about the SEED of the FATHER that is in the SON.
The reason the SON can do nothing of himself is because He is a SON.
A son really is an extension of his father.
We were created to be containers of God's Nature.
As an apple seed holds within itself the nature of the apple tree, it will bear forth an apple tree.
Satan had Eve eat the fruit of the tree of death instead of the tree of life.
It is the tree of death since God said the day you eat of it you will die.
But after man ate that fruit and sinned, God said he must get out of the Garden lest He take of the Tree of life and eat and live forever.
Talk about a HYBRID!
What would Adam become with seeds from two opposite trees in him?
Seed from the tree of death with seed from the tree of life in him?
He would be so strange and awful and not be able to multiply and replenish the earth.
Hybrids cannot multiply.
Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
Look what happened to them.
Watch how they reacted to one another.
Somehow they got Satan's nature in them!
"And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:11-13
They became self-centered.
Sounds a lot like the devil.
Notice what the devil said in his heart:
The Fall of Lucifer
"“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’"
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’"
Satan has a fire burning in him that will destroy him in the end.
It is a NATURE in Him that God will not allow to exist forever!
"Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
I cast you to the ground,
I laid you before kings,
That they might gaze at you.
“You defiled your sanctuaries
By the multitude of your iniquities,
By the iniquity of your trading;
Therefore I brought fire from your midst;
It devoured you,
And I turned you to ashes upon the earth
In the sight of all who saw you."
By the multitude of your iniquities,
By the iniquity of your trading;
Therefore I brought fire from your midst;
It devoured you,
And I turned you to ashes upon the earth
In the sight of all who saw you."
Mankind has that very same nature in him!
"You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."
Truth and error.
Jesus said he is the truth.
Opposite of truth is error or LIAR.
"You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it."
John 8:44
The people of the world, Jesus said, were of their father the devil!
So what did He mean?
Jesus was saying:
They had the nature of the devil in them.
Not that they were demon possessed, but that they had his nature.
They would do HIS LUSTS.
Jesus did not say they would do their own lusts, but that they would do the devil's lusts.
Self centered.
"I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.”
John 8:38
Jesus could do nothing of Himself.
He knew who He was.
He was the SON OF GOD!
And He knew that SONS have their father's natures.
The people thought they were doing their own thing, but they were doing the lusts of the devil.
They had their father's nature.. The DEVIL!
We are containers.
We are vessels.
You CONTAIN something even now!
The reason sinners do things they wish they did not do is because they have the enemy's nature in them since the Garden of Eden when Adam ate the fruit of death.
Our problem is that we were BORN OF ADAM'S RACE.
There is only one way to be free of that race and family.
There is only one way to be free of that nature.
You must die and BE BORN AGAIN!
God must become your Father.
You need to get out of the family of the devil.
You need to receive God's nature.
You were created to have His nature since you were created in His image.
We must die and be born again.
"Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Acts 2:38
Death and New Birth
Repent and be baptized is the DEATH.
Receive the Holy Ghost is the NEW BIRTH.
It is not good enough to simply die.
We will have a whole bunch of people who are nothings.
Empty.
It is no good to simply clean out the house and drive out the bad spirits and leave it at that.
If you leave it there, the spirits come back and find it empty and bring seven more worse than themselves.
YOU NEED TO FILL THE HOUSE WITH A NEW SPIRIT.
YOU NEED A NEW NATURE.
You need to be born of the SPIRIT after you die.
You need to be able to say "Our Father who art in Heaven."
Many say that but are not telling the truth because they are not children of God but of the devil.
They have never been born again!
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!
From the heart of Adam and Eve did these two SPEAK FORTH.
"Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
Matthew 12:34
Jesus called them a brood, or generation of vipers.
The serpent was their father.
They were a GENERATION FROM (OF) VIPERS.
They could not speak forth good things because they had the nature of the enemy.
" Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
I Never Knew You
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven."Matthew 7:17-21
You are either a good tree or a bad tree.
Mankind is a container of one of two seed-natures.
Those of us who were born again have God's GOOD nature in us.
The remainder of us who were never born again have the enemy's nature in them.
Some will say, "But that person who is not saved is good".
The bad seed was from the tree of the knowledge of BOTH GOOD AND EVIL.
It is just the GOOD part of the good and evil.
Still not the right seed.
It is not that you must be good to be saved, but YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.
Jesus said you MUST BE BORN AGAIN
All of us must repent and be buried and receive God's Spirit.
All of us were born in Adam's family and have that bad seed nature in us.
The seed will grow and more and more of Jesus likeness will come out.
Jesus:
"Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”
Luke 12:34
Stephen:
"And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,
And they divided His garments and cast lots."
Acts 6:5
The seed was growing well in Stephen, so they chose him to help in ministry.
"But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God."
Acts 7:55
"Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep."
Acts 7:60
Like JESUS.
Out of His mouth came seed.
When God's Word goes forth it is seed.
I can speak from my own personal experience,
If you let it into your heart, it will start to work with you!
You will want IT'S NATURE.
And believe me, you will not want this "foreign" nature from the devil in you anymore, and you will quickly realize it never did belong there!
You will choose to repent.
Paul was standing there that day.
"and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul."
Acts 7:58
Saul Persecutes the Church
"Now Saul was consenting to his death.
At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles."Acts 8:1
Paul never forgot that scene.
I believe the seed of Stephen's words stuck in his stony heart.
It took time, but it must have made Paul deep within want something.
Paul never realized it, but inside he was beginning to react and want God
He was hungry for God.
Truly hungry.
He misunderstood God's ways and thought killing Christians were removing God's enemies.
But that desire along with the seed of Stephen's words must have done something within him.
Because GOD CHOSE TO CALL HIM
NOTICE THAT AFTER HE HEARD STEPHEN SPEAK WORDS LIKE JESUS, SAUL DID MEET JESUS ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS!
God's Word no matter where it is spoken, will seek out the desirous heart and draw it to salvation.
On the road to Damascus in Acts 9, God's Spirit, JESUS, called him.
Paul did not realize it but that seed from Stephen was working with his true desire for God.
God knew that a reaction was working with Paul and the seed.
People who truly have a desire for God will get a seed one day and that will begin working with their desire and God will move with His Spirit.
In Genesis, God's Spirit hovered over the world and God spoke.
God's Word is right now going to all the world.
And whenever the SPIRIT notices a heart that receives the seed due to some desire inside,
THE SPIRIT JUMPS INTO ACTION.
Glory to God for His Grace
"And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
1 Timothy 1:12-13
In closing..
How many times have you heard people say they always had a desire for God, though they knew not the truth?
God saw that, and in the midst of thousands of religions, led them to the truth.
His Spirit jumped into action.
His Spirit led them to a place where SPIRIT BIRTH was being taught and promoted.
As long as their desire to do His will remained and kept working, He continued to lead and to lead and to lead TO ALL TRUTH.
A person may be in a cult now, fooled by the self-seeking liars who teach them, but if they truly have a desire, God will lead them out and into the truth
May the Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you
The Lord life up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Now and forever, in Jesus' name
Amen
And be gracious to you
The Lord life up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Now and forever, in Jesus' name
Amen
Brian Monzon Ministries