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On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came...

Many Jews were confused and marveled, “Whatever can this mean?”

Then Peter standing up raised his voice and began to speak. “These are not drunk as you suppose...but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel...” (Acts 2:16)

This is that... is a resource to reveal, and give light to scripture...by comparing scripture to scripture. Only God can reveal God. Only His Spirit can “guide us into all truth.” (John 16:13)

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4/29/2018

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Faith Class 101: Class 8

The Professor, as usual, began the class with the prayer of thanksgiving. Afterward He reminded the students: This is the way you should begin your day. As soon as your feet hit the floor in the morning lift your hands to the Father and give Him thanks. With a chuckle He said, trust Me, in a few moments, your faith-filled words of thanks will be accompanied with good feelings.

Let’s continue studying about “Righteousness.”
This subject is vitally important for you to understand. Why? Because it will affect every step you take on your daily walk with the LORD. Many children who do not have a clear understanding of their right-standing with God will not fulfill their call on earth because they inwardly see themselves as unworthy.

Several years ago, one young student confided that she did not “feel” righteous, particularly in prayer. “Something just seems to hold me back from connecting with God even though I know He forgave me when I received Jesus Christ into my heart.”

Many of My students make this common mistake. They confuse the word righteous with the word holy.

Righteousness means right-standing with God. When did this take place in your life? When you were born again. When Jesus suffered and died on the cross He took all your sin, sickness, disease, poverty, sorrow, and lack upon Himself. He went into hell and on the third day rose again. Jesus paid a debt He didn’t owe because we owed a debt we couldn’t pay.

THE GREAT EXCHANGE
When you accepted Jesus into your heart — your spirit was changed from eternal death to eternal life and you became a new creation in Christ. Through faith in Christ we receive His righteousness; His right standing with God is your right standing with God. Therefore, we can boldly enter the throne room of grace like a little child who runs into the open arms of their father.

Do you remember Jesus teaching on the Parable of the Prodigal Son? When the prodigal son returned to his home penniless, covered in filth, shame, and guilt, his father came running toward him with love and placed upon his son “the best robe.” That is the robe of righteousness! (Isaiah 61:10)

We received Christ’s spotless robe of righteousness through faith in Him. This faith is accompanied with grace: God’s unearned favor and blessings given to His child who He sees without sin! The great exchange!

“.... be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law,” (or by my doing good deeds,) “but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith...” (Philippians 3:9)

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

The gospel of Christ is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. “For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith.’” (Romans 1:16-17)

You can’t accept righteousness without faith. And faith is energized by righteousness ... which will produce a holy boldness!

Living by faith means that you believe the “in Him” scriptures that reveal who you are in Christ. Remember, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. (1 Thessalonians 5:23)

When our dear student said she didn’t feel “righteous,” it was because she was wrongfully identifying with the old Adamic nature of guilt and unworthiness. Recurring memories of past sins and the sins she committed after she received Jesus were keeping her from an intimate, open-hearted relationship with Father God.

In a private meeting with her I told her of her Covenant Rights as a born again Christian. Then we read 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

When she understood and really believed that repentance and confessing her sins cleansed her of ALL unrighteousness, tears of joy flowed. She saw herself as God saw her...righteous, holy, acceptable; complete in Him!

Righteousness and Your Potential
Wherever you are right now is not where you are going to be.
God sees you according to your potential.
Potential means hidden abilities.
Potential deals with future accomplishments.
God desires that you see you the same way He sees you so that the power of the anointing will flow through you to set the captives free.
Revival is closer than we think!!!

This is that...which is legally yours through Abraham and through Christ’s Blood: See Deuteronomy 28:1-14.

This is that...which Christ has legally redeemed you from: See Deuteronomy 28:15-68.
(Memorize: Galatians 3:13-14)

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4/20/2018

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Faith Class 101: Class 7

The Professor smiled as He watched the students, one by one, enter the room. Joy and expectation filled the large room. When everyone was seated, the Professor asked the class this question:
What happened to Abraham when He believed that God would give him descendants as many as the stars in heaven?

One student responded. Professor, the Bible says in Genesis 15:6 that it was accounted to him for righteousness. But I’m not sure I understand what that means. Can you explain that for me?

Yes, of course.
Because of Adam and Eve’s disobedience in the Garden of Eden, the stain of sin would be transferred to every person born on earth...including Abraham who was born about 2,000 years after Adam.

During a personal encounter, God told Abraham to look up at the stars and said, “So shall your descendants be...” (Genesis 15:5)

Faith, which is the substance of things hoped for, took hold of God’s Word. Abraham believed in his heart that God would not only give him a child, but he saw multitudes of his children born in every nation, “for in you all the nations shall be blessed.”

Galatians 3:8-9 reveals that God was preaching the gospel to Abraham. Jesus Christ would come forth from Abraham to save the lost in every nation.

Righteousness Means Right Standing with God
Definition of Righteous. 1: acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin. 2: morally right or justifiable; justified

The moment Abraham believed it was accounted to Abraham as righteousness. Righteousness was imputed or credited to Abraham, similar to someone who would make a trillion dollar deposit to a poor man’s checking account. Abraham’s faith in God produced God’s enormous, unending gift of grace.

God is righteous. All that He is, all that He does, and everything He says is right and perfect. When Abraham believed he would be the father of many nations, the contamination and separation of Adam’s sin was removed.

Let’s read together Romans 4:5-9.
“But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
And whose sins are covered;
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

“Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.”

The promise that God made to Abraham was not through the Law of Moses because Moses was not born yet.
The promise came before the sign of circumcision, which was the outward seal of the inward transformation — righteousness of faith. (Romans 4:11)

“Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is written, ‘I have made you a father of many nations’) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did...” (Romans 4:16-17)

It is of faith so that God’s abundant favor — blessing — grace! might be made certain to all the seed: both Jew and Gentile who believe, who have the faith of Abraham.

Students, every one of you in my class are part of what father Abraham saw when he looked up at the sky that night.
Jesus Christ, the Messiah himself was included in God’s illustration: God’s own Son, born of a virgin.

Justified, Approved, and Loved
The miracle of the new birth, the new creation in Christ, came forth when you believed the gospel message. Faith in what you heard produced the righteousness of God in you, just like it did in father Abraham. “...that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10)

This is that...
which the New Covenant teaches to those who are born again of God’s Spirit:
“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

Recommended Assignment:
Read Romans Chapters 3, 4, and 5.
As you read, underline or highlight the word “righteousness.”
On a sheet of paper, write down those scriptures.
Take that list and meditate on it for the week.

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4/11/2018

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Faith Class 101: Class 6

The Professor entered the room and wrote on the white board: INVERSION. Then He began to speak in a compassionate manner to the students.

Many of you are worried about the way things are going in Washington, D.C., even to the point of waking up at night in fear. Those who are in God’s Word daily will remain stronger through these times of transition because the Word in your heart will strengthen your faith. Faith overcomes the world and faith in God will see you through...IF you “walk by faith and not by sight.”

Definition of inverted: to turn upside down; reverse in position; inverse; bottom up. So inversion means a change in the position, order, or relationship of things so that they are the opposite of what they had been.

God is at work correcting the inversion that began in the U.S. government many years ago. That which was up is coming down. That which is down is coming up.

Because God is restoring our government, we can be confident that the end result will be marvelous. Hidden in this is Revival.

When God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt they didn’t fully understand what was going to happen. God was giving them the land to establish the Kingdom of God, the Law of God. This would affect the whole earth for generations to come, until the promised Messiah established a better covenant.

Students, when watching or reading negative news reports about our government, remember this word, INVERSION. Boldly declare it over what is being said that is contrary to God’s will.

Abraham: Heir of the World (Romans 4:13)
We saw in our last class, Abram had a name change that brought about a new identity. People began calling him Abraham...Father of Many Nations. They were confessing the Word of the LORD, declaring what would take place in the near future. (See Romans 4:17)

This is what happens when “faith in God” shows up! Inversion!

Can you see this, class?
Abram’s circumstances were hopeless.
His body was incapable of producing life: inoperative, inactive, not working — dead! So was the body of his wife, Sarai.

Exactly the place God waited for.
Why?
To bring about a supernatural intervention from the Kingdom of God!

What God was dealing with right here was Abraham’s descendants and one in particular who would change the future course of man’s history. God would bring forth His own Son, born of a virgin, to redeem all mankind from the corruption of sin and death! (Romans 8:1-2)

Death and Life are in the Power of the Tongue (Proverbs 18:21) Abraham, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became his new name: Father of Many Nations.

People were calling this couple what God had declared.

Did it have an effect on them?
Well, of course it did...“faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.”
(Romans 10:17)

Did this affect their hope?
Most certainly!

And if there had not been a personal encounter with Almighty God, and the daily reminder of the circumcision of Abram and all his servants, (Genesis 17:7-14) Isaac would not have been born to an old couple incapable of bearing a child.

But nothing is too hard for God.
Something else to consider about Abraham's circumcision is that blood was shed... Selah

Was there a requirement that God needed to bring about His will in the earth? Yes!
“And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.” (1 John 5:4)

This is that...which is the gospel.
“And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ‘In you all the nations shall be blessed.’ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.”
(Galatians 3:8-9)

Recommended for you:
Audio teaching from E.W. Kenyon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy6BqB11rdI

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4/1/2018

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Faith Class 101: Class 5
The Professor began class with this story.
One of my students has had a bitter life. Troublesome experiences in his youth and difficult times since have had a negative effect on him. He doesn’t see it, but he is walking around with a dark cloud over his head. It follows him wherever he goes and has an effect on everything he sees and does. He always seems to be in lack.

One day another student gave him a list of scriptures that reveal what his new birth in Christ really means...a new identity in Christ. He was told to read the scriptures out loud over himself three times a day for the next three weeks. The other day when he came into class he was smiling and began talking and sharing with the other students. The dark cloud that had influenced his life was gone!

The Unseen Power of Faith
Faith in God, faith in the scriptures, produced what had already been given to him at his second birth. Knowledge of who he is in Christ, knowledge of his complete redemption from past sins, and knowledge of how much his Father loves him brought inner healing.

When the faith given to him at the new birth connected with the knowledge of his new identity it turned into an experience that produced liberty and a new life.

Now let’s take a look at Abraham’s faith and how it affected his life.
Thirteen years after the child Ishmael was born (see Genesis Chapter 16), Abram has another encounter with Almighty God. Not only is Sarai still barren, but at ninety-nine years old Abram is now incapable of producing offspring.

This is exactly what God was waiting for.

God reaffirms what He promised Abram twenty-five years ago.
“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.” (Genesis 17:4-6)

“...As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.”
(Genesis 17:15-16)

During this visitation, God once again reminds Abram of the future generations that will come and the land that is set apart for him and for his descendants after him.

“... As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. (Genesis 17:9-11)

When Abram and Sarai received this promise from Almighty God, the Word, a living seed, began to change their bodies and one year later Isaac was born!

God would have a family!

Something happened when Abram and Sarai received their new names.
Do you know what that was class?

They received a new identity!

Students, you have much in common with the father of faith.
When you heard the gospel preached and received it, the living seed of God’s Word birthed a new creation in Christ Jesus!

Your second birth is no different than the miracle of Isaac’s birth.
“For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:10) Eternal life belongs to you.

What else did you receive?
A new identity!

What else happened?
Your heart was circumcised! (Romans 2:29)

And God would establish a New Covenant and write His laws within us, on our mind and in our heart. “I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
(Read Hebrews Chapter Eight)

God has a family!

Remember our young man that was born again walking around with a dark cloud over his head until someone gave him a list of scriptures that told him who he is in Christ? When he realized that God changed his identity, faith set him free to enjoy the abundant life.

This is that...which was written before Isaac was born...
“... (as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations) in the presence of Him whom he (Abraham) believed--God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did...” (Romans 4:17)

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