A Change is Coming
Romans 8:18-25 (NET)
18 For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us. 19 For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly but because of God who subjected it—in hope 21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now. 23 Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.
The teaching on the Millennium this past Wednesday night brought many questions. And this is an attempt to bring light to what God has been dealing with my heart about. I have had several dreams dealing with end time events.
I have had two dreams, both dealing with nature, the nature of man in relation to sin. You and I are affected by our nature. I propose that our nature itself has been corrupted by satan. Man’s nature has been corrupted by sin.
When God cursed the ground, it was a punishment to man. His creation sinned against Him. God could have killed us and started all over, but we are not an experiment of God, to amuse his almighty self, that’s not my God, that’s not my Jesus, and it’s not the Holy Spirit’s way.
Man would earn his living by the sweat of his brow, and woman would travail in childbirth.
During the Millennium, imagine women having twenty or thirty children or a hundred because the curse will be removed. There will be no pain in childbirth. Imagine a perfect body with perfect children.
Pastor is telling you such a time is coming, where the lion and the lamb will lay in the same nest.
Man’s nature is going to be changed. I remember when I was young, I felt like a bull, I could do anything. I had unreal strength. I could be up all night long and work all day long.
Now I’m trapped in a body that’s subject to time, God’s Word says man shall live…
Genesis 6:3 (NKJV)
And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Psalms 90:10 (NKJV)
The days of our lives are seventy years;
And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Live a righteous life before God, live a healthy life, live a prosperous life before the Lord. Live your life surrounded by His presence and His Word, and don’t surrender to death, remember God didn’t create death.
Death is the result of sin.
Those who go through the rapture will have changed natures.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (New American Standard Bible)
51 Behold, I am telling you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (New American Standard Bible)
Those Who Died in Christ
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as indeed the rest of mankind do, who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose from the dead, so also God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. 15 For we say this to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore, comfort one another with these words.
It’s not natural to die, it’s not God’s plan for you to die. We have accepted our own demise; we have paid for our own burial but let me spin this just a little…
The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come and take his Church home. Every son and every daughter will be raised from the grave, everything God has promised is about to happen, in my spirit I have become a son and you a son or daughter of God.
I have been adopted by God, by the Spirit of God. But God’s not going to leave me in spirit form. He’s coming back after this body. He didn’t adopt just my spirit; he adopted my body as well. He’s coming to make all things new.
Praise the Lord, He alone is worthy
I Thank God for a Spirit enforced life, his Spirit in you is life, and if you have not been born again, you are missing the greatest gift God could have given outside of his Son.
Indulge me for a minute or two. In this world, man’s nature without Christ has made us soulish, we only care about me, myself and I. That’s why when you were saved, you started caring about the souls of man.
But the soulish creature is after the course of this world our habits become spirit enforced.
Ted Bundy a serial killer and rapist said in an interview with James Dobson:
Pornography was what motivated him to become a rapist and murderer.
An addiction becomes spirit enforced; demons are spirit beings; they cannot manifest without a body.
The devil would like to possess everybody with a demon, but if he can’t possess you, he looks to oppress you.
The devil is a spirit being, he cannot be destroyed. God made him, he was an archangel, thrown from heaven. In heaven there is no sin, when satan was thrown out he drew 1/3 of the angels with him, they were deceived by the devil. These angels left their first estate. Now they are in the form of a demon. They oppose God and his kingdom. Man is his target; his goal, to kill, steal and destroy man, God’s greatest creation. Man was created a little lower than the angels. How do I know man is God’s greatest creation? It took his son to redeem us from the curse of sin.
I believe cancer is a demon, I believe AIDS is a demon, I believe COVID is a demon, all looking for a body to manifest in. Hear me the devil cannot possess a Christian. Why? Because we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
You can look at nature and see amazing demonstrations of demon powers controlling atmospheres, tornadoes, hurricanes, demons can’t possess that realm. Yes, he is the ruler of the air, but he cannot possess it. Rather he can oppress it.
Mark 4:35-41
Jesus Stills the Sea
35 On that day, when evening came, He *said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.” 36 After dismissing the crowd, they *took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him. 37 And a fierce gale of wind *developed, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling with water. 38 And yet Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” 39 And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm. 40 And He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?” 41 They became very much afraid and said to one another, “Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
That was demonic spirit manifesting in the wind and sea and Jesus rebuked the wind and sea and it obeyed.
A change is coming like nothing we have ever seen, it’s beyond my imagination.
Has your life been the target of satan’s oppression? Jesus said I have authority to anoint you with oil and the prayer of faith will heal the sick. He said we would cast out demons and break the strong man’s hold on your life.
God sent you to this church to get help, to find freedom. Jesus wants to heal your soul. Will you be born again? Will you let Jesus set you free?