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Trench warfare or already won? 1 chase 1,000? 3 of 4

9/24/2022

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Hi all,
Some years ago I was driving across western Kansas, which is nearly as flat as a table top. For those outside the US or those Americans who have never traveled it, Kansas is in the middle of the USA, and many crops such as wheat are grown there. There is 1 main interstate highway, I-70, that runs the full length of the state east to west, a distance of 437 miles, or 703 kilometers. Central and eastern Kansas have hills, but western Kansas is so flat a person can see horizon to horizon without trees or buildings to interrupt the 180 degree view of the sky. 
 
Night was falling on a cloudless evening, and as I drove I looked around at the unobstructed view horizon to horizon. As the sun set I could literally watch the darkness in the east move westward to envelope the land. It was a rare and awe-inspiring scene. I said within myself: "Father, look at how the darkness is advancing!" Immediately He replied clearly and concisely:
 
"It's not that the darkness is advancing; it's that the light is retreating." 
 
That statement from the Father illustrates the two sides of spiritual warfare. One side is fearful, crying out because the darkness is to their perspective, advancing on their life, the lives of their loved ones, or society. The other perspective is that the darkness has no power in and of itself, for it advances only to the degree the light retreats. 
 
When we are talking about 'spiritual warfare', it is important to take the perspective of the Father, to see the only reason the enemy is advancing in one's life, is because somewhere, somehow, the light retreated from them. 
 
The mistake people make
Bible teachers and pastors are infamous for taking verses out of context, twisting them to something that sounds good and that they can market. When they do that concerning the subject of spiritual warfare, their error leads to Christians believing what they do is scriptural, when it really is not. That means God is no where near their prayers, declarations, and spiritual warfare fight.
 
Because these teachers don't understand the reality of Christ in us and what He did on the cross and resurrection, and how we have authority to use that most powerful name in the universe, they must rely on Old Testament verses now obsolete because we are in a new covenant established upon new and better promises (Hebrews 8:6)
 
They are therefore afraid the darkness is advancing and lead others in their fear, allowing the darkness to advance in these good-hearted people. 
 
For instance: 1 can put 1,000 to flight and 2 can put 10,000 to flight
This teaching is so common whole generations of Christians think their understanding is chapter and verse. Namely, that they can pray with someone to multiply their power against demons.
 
The verse in question is Deuteronomy 32:30: "How should 1 chase 1,000, and 2 put 10,000 to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?"
 
Deuteronomy means 'words', and is the transcript of Moses telling the story of the birth of Israel to those born in the wilderness during their 40 years of wandering. 
 
Because those who came out of Egypt had within a few months refused the Lord 10 times, He gave them what they told Him they wanted - to die in the wilderness. "Truly as I live says the Lord, as you have said to Me that is what I will give you; Your bodies will fall in the wilderness..." (Numbers 14:2, 28-29)
 
Here in Deuteronomy 32, Moses tells all this to the children of those who died in the wilderness. Moses is about to die, and these young people needed to hear what happened to their parents. They needed to know why the enemies of Israel were successful; It was because after stubbornly refusing to believe after 10 times, He was forced to their parents what they demanded: Die in the wilderness. (They couldn't go back to Egypt at this point) 
 
It is within that context Moses says in 32:30: "How could one single enemy chase a thousand of them, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them (to their own unbelief), Unless the Lord had close them in - limited their attempts to do it on their own?"
 
The verse is about how the enemy triumphed over the unbelieving generation: How 1 enemy made 1,000 Israelites run in terror and 2 enemy made 10,000 Israelites run away because they abandoned God, who eventually had given them over to their unbelief and its consequences.
 
But some preacher years ago took the first part of that verse, and thought it would 'preach'. Thus an erroneous doctrine was born, and eventually became a doctrinal plank in the foundation of many Christians - and they wonder why their efforts are so powerless. God is Truth, and they have been lied to, believing that verse says something it does not. So God isn't in it. 
 
There are many such false doctrines that well meaning Christians have believed. But the Holy Spirit isn't in error for He is Truth, so those people feel powerless spiritually and have no idea why. 
 
Is the darkness advancing or is your light retreating because you've believed error all these years? 
 
Next week, what the New Testament says about spiritual warfare...until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]

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Trench warfare with the devil or having already won? 2 of 4

9/17/2022

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Hi all,
They say when training government agents about how to spot counterfeit money, they train the agents to know real money to the last detail. In that way, when a counterfeit is seen, the agent immediately recognizes it is counterfeit because they know the true so well.
 
So in this study I'm going to start by showing New Testament realities. Once we are so immersed in New Testament realities, when we encounter the fake, we'll immediately recognize it.
 
What is your 'ticket' into heaven? 
To ask another way, "Why do you go to heaven? or, "How do you know you're going to heaven?"
 
Most people would immediately say, "My sins are forgiven". 
But that is not the correct answer. What gets you into heaven is your spirit being recreated by the Holy Spirit. 
 
"...Truly, truly I tell you, 'Except a person is born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit." John 3:5
 
Here Jesus says the 'ticket' into heaven is having your spirit recreated by the Holy Spirit - He said nothing about sins being forgiven. Think of it another way; that everyone in heaven has a spirit that has been recreated by the Holy Spirit. Old things are past, behold, all things have become new. We are new creations in Christ. 
 
Having our sins forgiven was the legal action which allowed the Father to recreate our spirit by His Spirit. 
 
What about the water?
For some, this has been a point of great debate, but if we set it in context it makes sense. The first method of setting the context is to see who Jesus is talking to. That answer is Nicodemus, a leader in Israel, who was trying to grasp the ministry of Jesus. They met at night, privately, and we are given insights to this private discussion.
 
Then we ask 'when?' That answer to that is early on in the ministry of Jesus. In John 1 it was all about John the Baptist, and Jesus Himself had submitted to water baptism. Jesus had to show Nicodemus He was righteous - He had fulfilled all righteousness by being water baptized. What does that mean?
 
What did water baptism meant to Nicodemus and first century Judaism? In Judaism in the first century, there were many 'ritual washings', including full and partial baptism. Gentiles who wanted to become Jewish were water baptized as a public expression of their faith in the God of Israel. Jewish people were baptized to express repentance or renewal of dedication to the Lord. 
 
So whether Jew or a Gentile convert, faith in the God of Israel was publicly expressed by being water baptized. Without it, you were not counted as being in covenant with God. That's why Jesus submitted to being water baptized, so He would have credibility, because it was right culturally and historically to the Jewish faith. 
 
This is in the 3rd chapter of John 
Jesus had submitted to John's water baptism. John's words and Jesus' baptism would have been fresh on Nicodemus' mind, for he understood to be ushered into the faith, Jew or Gentile, one must first be water baptized. 
 
So when Jesus said to Nicodemus in this private meeting; 'Except you be born of water (initiated into faith in the faith of the God of Israel) and the Spirit (your spirit recreated by the Spirit of God', you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven', it makes sense.
 
This understanding of the emphasis on the recreated spirit being the 'ticket' to heaven is seen throughout the New Testament. 
 
I haven't forgotten the subject is spiritual warfare...
But we need to know the position from which we do battle - from the trench or from having already won?
Once your spirit is recreated by the Holy Spirit - that is you are born by the Spirit, you are now a citizen of heaven. You are a child of God for He took of His Spirit to cause you to be born into His Kingdom.  
 
"From this point on I will judge no one by earthly standards, for if anyone is in Christ old things are passed away, behold! All things have become new, and those all things, are of God..." II Corinthians 5:16-18
 
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ." Ephesians 1:3
 
"...after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, after you believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise..." Ephesians 1:13
 
"...that the eyes of your understanding would be opened to know the invitation He has given to you, and what the riches of that inheritance is for the saints, and His exceeding great power which is directed to and for us who believe. That is the same power He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and authority and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world but also that which is to come. And He (Father) has put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the Head over all things to the church (the body of Christ), which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills the universe with Himself." Ephesians 1:18-23
 
This is just a start at seeing what we have and who we are in Christ. We are recreated by the Holy Spirit, we have the authority to use the name of Jesus against demons, we are seated in the heavenlies in Christ. We've been adopted to the Father through the sacrifice of Jesus (1:5).
 
Once you realize this, you'll know demons are terrified of the Christian who knows who they are in Christ. 
 
I freely share things of the Lord and angels during visitations - those times I am 'in the Spirit' as Revelation 1:10 and 4:2 calls it. But I rarely talk about seeing demons, though I've seen many. 
 
Nearly every time I've seen a demon, and he realizes I can see him, he runs away terrified. They are terrified of us. An exception to that was a demon I saw in a church once, actually I've seen a few of that kind. They look kind of like the character from Star Wars called 'Jabba the Hutt'. Big, slovenly, fat, lazy. In each time they were secure in their position in the church building. 
 
And each time I saw them they were in what we could call 'prosperity churches'. Their task seemed to be causing people to become prideful in their possessions, resulting in laziness - let someone else reach the poor, the downtrodden. "Teach me but don't challenge me to apply it to my life" sort of Christian. The kind of church where people invite Jesus into their life as part of their schedule, rather than give Jesus their whole being.  
 
These demons knew I couldn't cast them out of the building because the pastor and leadership and people wanted them there. 
 
In one visitation with the Lord He was teaching me how demons get into the mind of a person. 
Christians cannot have demons in their spirit, for that has been recreated by the Holy Spirit. But if a person entertains evil thoughts they can reach a point a demon will enter into their minds and try to take over their thoughts and emotions. 
 
In this visitation it was about a Christian man who was just standing there, and in the Spirit where the Lord and I were, this man was in a massive sphere of light. The light was not stopped by floor or ceiling or walls. The man had about a 10 foot (3m) or more sphere of light he was in - God's light, God's life. 
 
Two demons were walking around the outside of this sphere of light, looking for a way to get to this man's mind. The Lord and I were standing behind them as the Lord talked to me, for the demons were focused on the man and didn't even look behind themselves to see us. 
 
The Lord talked of how this man was righteous 
But in one area he had a secret sin that he protected. About every 2 weeks the Lord said, he would entertain thoughts of his flesh, and instead of disciplining himself and redirecting his attention, he would open the door for those demons.
 
Just then a part of the sphere pulled open, like a slice of pie, wide on the outside and narrowing towards the center. But it was an opening. I saw the demons turn sideways as they moved towards the man in that 'slice' so as not to touch the light. When they got close enough to the man they jumped up on his shoulders, and started talking into his ears, and then hopped inside his head, to occupy his thoughts. Then the man sinned, repented, they jumped out, and the opening in the light closed with the demons on the outside once again. 
 
Spiritual warfare gets very personal when we talk of our will, discipline, and secret sins. But I learned in that visitation that we have all the power, all the authority we need. When it comes to personal spiritual warfare, very often we open the doors. 
 
But the devil does also get into our lives by people around us, to harass us - and we'll pick it up there next week. Until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]

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Trench warfare with the devil or having already won? 1 of 4

9/10/2022

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Hi all,
Are we to live in the spiritual trenches on the defensive, being afraid something we might say or do, or not say or not do, might open the door for the devil in our lives?
 
Or do we treat the devil as a sometimes nuisance like a buzzing fly, but no real threat to us or our loves ones? 
 
When we do all to stand, and having done all, stand, do we stand from a perspective of having already won, or do we put on that whole armor to do battle against an enemy where our victory is not yet determined? 
 
Back in the days of the Word of Faith (WOF) movement... 
...'positive confession' took center stage. Related to that was being careful (oops, 'careful' was one of the banned words) not to say words perceived as negative. 
 
Around 1981 we were saying goodbye to some friends, and made the mistake of saying with a wave, "Take care!" Wow, the wife reacted! You would have thought we had just insulted her mother the way she snapped around and angrily corrected us: "We reject that in the name of Jesus, no devil, we take no cares on us. We are careful for nothing (careful to use the King James English because if it was good enough for Paul, it was good enough for them) Don't you know saying 'be careful' means to take care on yourself? We won't do that because we don't want the devil to have an open door into our lives!" Wow. We closed the door having been sternly rebuked. 
 
All we were trying to do was express care for them in their drive home in the dark...we weren't suggesting they take the cares of the world upon their shoulders. Wow, that was a vivid lesson in two areas - one, to be careful about what we said, (oops, I did it again) and two, there were some people out there really afraid if they made one misstep, the devil could come into their lives and wreak havoc. 
 
Here we are decades later 
The belief systems related to saying the right thing and being concerned we might open the door to the devil, not only exists, but is thriving, and has become much more sophisticated. 
 
There is the group that believes in an elaborate court system in heaven, with rules and protocols by which we may present our case. If we do something wrong, then the case could go against us. 
 
There is the group that goes into detail about every demon in charge of everything from nations to regions to cities, and they do battle in prayer against those demons. During the height of the teaching about doing warfare with spirits over cities, one group in Tulsa dressed in army fatigues and rented the 60th floor of a building so they could be closer to the prince of the power of the air. 
 
Do we read in Acts or the letters where Paul or Peter, James, John or Phillip did spiritual warfare over cities they traveled to? Do we see that in Samaria or Ephesus, to call down the evil spirits over those cites? No. 
 
There is also the group(s) that follows their leaders religiously, hanging on their every word, often reading some spiritual sign or threat into everything from the color of the moon to dates on the calendar, all done in defensive mode to see what the devil may do. Does anyone remember when prayer alerts went out when the western calendar turned to 6/6/(0)6? 
 
This stream holds their audience (captives) in rapt attention following every move, for it they don't tune in to the next service, if they don't do exactly as they are told, the devil will surely have a door into their lives and bring lack and whatever else he wants. 
 
Fear takes many forms, many ways to manifest as you can see above, and I just mentioned a few ways. But when it comes to 'religion', fear puts the burden on us to be on the defensive against the devil. 
 
Some are so addicted to fear, I call it "fear p*rn". They are both afraid and fascinated, and achieve a spiritual release by the fear p*rn addiction. They can't stop looking at those sights that wrap their news in fear. 
 
That same fear that makes people afraid of the devil, makes God the adversary. 
Some years ago leaders of one 'stream' of the faith told their followers if they just gathered enough people together at a conference, they would bring heaven down to earth and cause revival to pour out across the land. They would travel from one city to another in conferences with 3,000 and more people, even filling a stadium or two, and all with the same theme - if we gather enough people we can yell and shout and cry and beg to God the Father to pour out His Spirit to us and for our land. 
 
In the various 'revivals' in recent history, yelling and crying and screaming out to God was the normal way for many people. They made God the Father in heaven who refused to hear them, refused to pour out His Spirit to send revival, who had to be cried to, shouted at, coerced, to answer prayer, or send revival. 
 
All those people forgot that Christ lives in their spirit and we are one with Him - there is no need to shout. 
 
Let me interrupt myself right here: If you are at a spiritual place where your Heavenly Father has become your adversary, then whoever you've been listening to, whatever you've been watching, please run, don't walk, to the nearest exit. Those people who make the Father or Lord our adversary are not healthy nor balanced. 
 
Let's look at scripture....
Have you noticed from Acts to Jude, very little is said about the devil? Consider Luke (wrote Acts that covers 30 years), Paul, Peter, James, John, Jude, wrote letters that make up our New Testament over the course of about 70 years, and none of these men have much of anything to say about the devil. There is no letter fully devoted to spiritual warfare. They barely mentioned the devil. 
 
They lived in a time when Christians were being killed just for being Christians. But very little was said about the devil. There was no commentary or instruction about the demons motivating Caesar or local governments to persecute Christians. There were no calls to cast down the spirits controlling Rome. 
 
We have I Peter who writes the most about suffering for the Lord. There are some 15 or 16 references to suffering for the Lord, with a few of those being bringing our flesh into subjection to Christ and the suffering it endures facing discipline (I Peter 4:1), but the rest are about persecution and how to handle oneself. (4:16-19)
 
Paul mentions 'this present distress' in I Corinthians 7:26, referring to persecution and submitting for their consideration it may not be the best time to get married - if one or both of you may lose your lives to martyrdom.
 
And in his closing words of his letter to the Ephesians he talks of prayer, how to behave as a parent and employer and employee, and mentions putting on the whole armor of God to stand against the devil. 
 
The other side of that coin...
When Paul mentions in Ephesians 6:10-18 for us to put on the whole armor of God, he mentions this in the context that he is in prison for his faith - clearly the first meaning of that passage has to do with standing against the devil's plot to persecute you (v19-20).
 
The other side of the coin is to consider just whose armor he says to put on. If I say, 'You can have my coat, here, put it on because its cold outside', you understand the coat is mine. So when Paul says put on the armor of God, whose armor is it? 
 
The scriptural reference is Isaiah 59:15-21 which most if not all the original readers would have understood just Whose armor it was. Isaiah is prophesying about a time when those who are good, are accused of being evil. It is a time when doing good makes yourself a prey to evil people. 
 
Isaiah continues in v16 saying the Lord marveled that there was no intercessor and it displeased Him there was no justice, no one to make things right, "So His arm brought salvation, righteousness sustained Him...He put on righteousness as a breastplate, the helmet of salvation was upon His head, His clothing was zeal..."
 
You see, when Paul said to put on the whole armor of God, the God he was talking about is the Lord Jesus, who was spiritually equipped to fulfill His mission on planet earth (persecuted throughout) - Do you remember when David was given King Saul's armor with which to face Goliath? Do you remember what he said to Saul: "I cannot wear this, for I have not proven it (in battle)." David took Saul's armor off and went to the stream to pick up 5 stones to arm himself with the weapon he had proven against the lion and bear. (I Samuel 17:34-40)
 
Jesus proved the armor in battle. He successfully brought salvation, and now we are commanded to put on the whole armor of God - it has been proven in battle, it is for us. 
 
But are we in the trenches using this armor, or do we battle like David, knowing we have already won before the fight even begins?
 
We will pick it up there next week. (This first in the series ran a little long, sorry, shorter next week)
Until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]

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The 7 churches of The Revelation 4 of 4

9/3/2022

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Hi all,
Now we come to Philadelphia - it is the Greek word for 'brotherly love' and used throughout the New Testament to describe exactly that. Like the letter to Smyrna, there is very little the Lord finds wrong with the body of Christ there.
 
In The Revelation 3:7-12 He commends them in that they 'are very weak, yet have kept my Word and not denied my name'. Then the Lord makes an amazing promise about a future time of judgement where they will be vindicated; 
 
"I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you." 
 
It reminds me of Matthew 12:41-42 when the Lord told the people around Him that the people of Nineveh will rise up in judgement against that generation because someone greater than Jonah was in their midst, and the same with the Queen of Sheba as there is one greater than Solomon in their midst. 
 
It speaks to a time when people who scorn us now will one day see Who and what we were talking about. The Lord has the last say on our life, and we need to be encouraged when people speak against us or treat us poorly.  
 
Laodecia - the rich church in need of nothing
The city was located on the Lycus river like Colossae and Hierapolis, which was a major east-west travel route. Hierapolis was just 6 miles to the north (10km) and had hot springs that served as the water supply for Laodecia, transported there by an aqueduct. 
 
When the water started in Hierapolis it was very hot, but by the time it reached Laodecia it was lukewarm, meaning it was too hot to drink but too cold to use for cooking - it wasn't good for anything unless someone either heated it or cooled it based on their need. 
 
Additionally, because of the hot springs and mud that went with it, Laodecia had a huge medical complex for eye and other diseases, believing the mud-based salve to aid the healing of diseased eyes. Both these cultural facts figure in to how the Lord speaks to them:
 
14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. 21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
 
It could be argued Laodecia became lukewarm because of its great wealth - we can see that in our day as well. They had a prosperity gospel which was actually consistent with some in Judaism who believed wealth was a sign of God's blessing on a person's life. That isn't always the case, for the church He is coming for is one that is very practical and down to earth - I was hungry...thirsty...naked...a visitor....sick...in prison...and you took care of me. That is where the blessing of God rests on a person, in the things no man sees, but the Father only. 
 
To me, the 'oh me' lesson is that these Christians did not know they were no longer righteous in the eyes of the Lord. He said they were 'wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked', and He said they needed to 'buy white robes'. (Robes of righteousness, Revelation 19:8, 14)
 
I wonder today how many believers are unrighteous like the Laodecians - not going to hell, just not right before the Lord. Maybe I should include this thought. If our lives are like a pizza with 12 slices, maybe in 11 of those slices we are upright and right before the Lord. But some have that secret 12th slice where they hold onto the secret sin, or they hold onto that bitterness or haven't restored fellowship with a friend, or are in envy, strife or divisions. That 12th slice makes them unrighteous in that area of their lives. The Lord will for the sake of privacy, bless those other 11 slices while at the same time working on the heart of the person about that 12th slice...
 
Paul said the same in his first letter to the Corinthians, 3:3-15. He said their strife and divisions were wood, hay, and stubble that would be burned away on judgement, though they would be saved, but as one having come through fire. The Corinthians loved the Lord, were tongue talking believers - but they were full of strife and divisions - that part would be burned away in judgement if they didn't deal with it this side of heaven. 
 
It's interesting that the first letter, to the Ephesians was about a church once zealous for the Lord but now cooled down, and ends with the letter to the Laodecians about the same subject. The caution throughout these letters is to guard against complacency, that lukewarm faith that sits in neutral gear rolling along with the flow of 'traffic', just going through the motions. 
 
Some read the messages to the 7 churches as periods of church history - starting with Pentecost and great zeal like Ephesus then falling into works in the name of the Lord but no real relationship at the end of the 1st century. Then they see the persecution of Smyrna being the time between The Revelation and the legalization of Christianity in the 300's AD, and so on, ending with Laodecia being the church today. 
 
I find that to be a rather self-focused American or western way of looking at things. Over 20 years ago various organizations posted estimates that at least 173,000 Christians are martyred every year for their faith, and from what I've read since, things haven't changed. More Christians are being killed for being Christian today than ever before. And not every Christian around the world is wealthy enough to feel lukewarm about the Lord. 
 
But if we look at each church representing seasons of our own spiritual lives... 
I think that can fit. Many of us had an initial season of zeal like Ephesus, then found ourselves going through the motions like they did...And like Smyrna, early on we suffered persecution, rejected by friends and family for our new faith.
 
Then like Pergamos we had a time that seemed to be with people from the 'synagogue of Satan', worldly people, maybe we had a seasons of 'falling away' from the faith. And maybe like Thyatira we had our time in the world's system, a Christian in our hearts but doing business as ruthless business people. Or we got caught up in the system, compromising our morals and ethics in the name of making money and gathering 'things'. 
 
Next was Sardis, asleep in the light, the feeling spiritually dead church - having experienced the world perhaps like Thyatira and the deep sins of idol worship and sexual immorality, we went through a season of spiritual deadness, asleep in the light, keeping our thoughts about the Lord and 'what we needed to do'.
 
...and then we had a season of Philadelphia, turning our hearts to love and forgiveness, wanting to rejoin 'brotherly love', learning to grow a backbone though surrounded by unbelievers, humbling ourselves to those we broke fellowship with, making our way back to the Lord. Then to Laodecia, thinking all was well, after all God was blessing, but in the heart still searching for the real, the genuine, the true...and maybe that's for some today.
 
And to that He tells them: "I am here! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone opens I will enter into and we will share a meal together, and you can sit with me in my throne and kingdom...."
 
There is something today for everyone in the Lord's messages to the 7 churches so long ago. Whatever elements are quickened to you, follow that 'rhema', that element the Lord is showing you, and get all the spiritual nourishment you can get! Come quickly Lord Jesus! 
 
New subject next week, until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at [email protected]
 

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