The modern church teaches that you can’t love your neighbour until you love yourself. The Bible teaches the opposite. The Bible teaches that if you want to be a genuine disciple you have to hate yourself (Luke 14:26,27,33).
The twelve disciples served Jesus in love with themselves. They proved this when they told the children to go away; they proved it when they asked for thrones next to Jesus, they proved it when they wanted to call fire down from heaven; and they proved it when they deserted Jesus at the inquisition.
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Hurt by Authority
As a child, and even as an adult, everyone gets hurt in some way by authority. We get hurt by Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: authority, blame, blindness, elevation, envy, false church, judge, Lie, Pharisee, position, rejected, repent, sin
Jezebel came from the tribe of the Zidonians (1Kings 16:31). The Zidonians were Canaanites and were noted for their couldn’t-care, over-confident, without-caution attitude (Judges 18:7). They prided themselves in a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, no hassles, no boundaries, no accountability, and no law enforcement. Basically, just like today’s modern society, they Read the rest of this entry »
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As a child, if you blame the authority, with bitterness in your heart, for being unfairly treated and for your hurt feelings, you’ll initiate a spirit of resistance against authority. If you allow this hurt to fester, you’ll generate a permanent pattern of defiance with an inner heart of …
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In Mark 5 we read the story of the man possessed by 2000 demons. When he saw Jesus he ran and worshipped Him. It is not only possible to worship Jesus with demons in you, the reality is that most church people do this, because most church people
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Tags: authority, blindness, correction, elevation, envy, false church, good, humility, Lie, lying spirits, position, sin, spirit, submission, surrender, truth, worship
This is what I reckon happened in heaven, and I reckon it happened because it’s inherent in every human being’s nature …
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Tags: elevation, envy, faith, forgive, Joseph, judge, position, repent, suffering, trigger, voices
In Genesis chapter 3, Eve succumbed to the temptation to elevate her position above what God allocated to her. Once she took the carrot she gained the knowledge that she was naked, then in fear, hid from God, then lied about why, then blamed the serpent, whilst at the same time Adam blamed God for giving him the woman, and then blamed the woman for misleading him.
The pattern of sin was set from the beginning,
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Q. Why did God remove King Saul from the throne? 1 Samuel 15
King David deliberately plotted murder against one of his loyal subjects in order to cover-up his sin of adultery, yet God forgave him. How come God didn’t forgive King Saul? Read the rest of this entry »
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