Now the great pattern of our priestly ministry is Jesus. If you look for a moment in Hebrews chapter five, verse one, it says: For every high priest taken from among men, is appointed for man in things pertaining to God, that he may offer [Notice [...]

Romans 12:21 says: Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil by good. So we have two options and only two. We can overcome, or we can be overcome, but there’s nothing in between. And when we’re confronted by evil, there’s only one thing that’s [...]

I’d like to read therefore, first of all, the account of the Resurrection Sunday first appearance of Jesus to His disciples in a group as it’s recorded in John 20, reading from verse 9... John chapter 20 from verse 19 through verse 22. All right, [...]

Now let me point out to you that the home is a model of the church. And I think this has important conclusions because I don’t believe really the church will ever be any stronger than the homes or the families that make up the church. Look for a [...]

My interpretation begins with Revelation 1:10–17. John says: I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day and I heard behind me a loud voice as of a trumpet, saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last; and what you see, write in a book [...]

The next gift, miracles, can go further. Miracles go beyond healings, for instance, this is from an example that's occurred more than once in my ministry. If a person has what they call otitis media, which is inflammation of the middle ear, you [...]

All right. So... We go on to the next of the gifts of power which is the gift of healing. And notice in the original it's all plural. Gifts of healings. I personally am inclined to believe that every healing is a gift. And it generally works [...]

The number one gift of power is faith. Now, faith is used in many ways in the New Testament. "The righteous shall live by faith". I have a book that's called Faith to Live By. That's the kind of faith every Christian has to be a [...]

Let’s look at the father’s responsibility as prophet. You can put it this way. As priest he represents his family to God. As prophet he represents God to his family. That again is the special unique privilege of every father. Let’s look in Ephesians [...]

Let’s go a little step further now in this picture of what it is to be a father. I think I need to say at this point that I’m not providing merely theory. I have experience. When I married my first wife I inherited eight adopted daughters on the [...]

All right, we’re going on now to the father as king or governor. 1 Timothy 3:4–5. speaking about an elder: One who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence. For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, [...]

All right, now, what’s the end purpose of God in marriage? Turning to Genesis 2:24. Let me point out to you that marriage was originated in the mind of God. Adam didn’t think up marriage. He didn’t even know about marriage. He didn’t even know he [...]

And then material structures can be shaken. Structures like this church building in which we’re meeting. I’ll read you just a couple of passages from the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 2, beginning at verse 12. Now, as I read some of these passages [...]

This is the fourth and final session of our series of talks on the theme of "The Enemies We Face"; "We," of course, being God’s people, the Church of Jesus Christ. In the previous two talks I have dealt with what I believe to be [...]

The problem is not to tell people something they don’t know, it’s to remind them of what they know and maybe don’t want to remember. First of all, individual lives can be shaken. In the ministry I’ve dealt with hundreds of people over the years [...]

Tonight we're going to proclaim Psalm 19, verses 12 through 14, which are the last three verses of the psalm. These words are a prayer of David, they are a prayer that we have been praying ourselves for several years. And we’ve been quite [...]

Now I want to deal out of Scripture with the forms that blessings and curses take. There is one particular chapter in the Old Testament which deals exclusively with blessings and curses. How many of you know which it is? Deuteronomy chapter 28. All [...]

Now I think we need to move into action. This is the point at which I'm totally dependent on the Holy Spirit. If He doesn't turn up or work, this will be a fiasco. But, I have to say He's remarkably faithful. Exercising the gifts is [...]

But I want to deal just with certain general basic requirements if the church is to be victorious. I’m going to deal with them briefly. I have actually listed seven; you could probably make it eight or you could make it six, but in my making of [...]

Now we have to cut this short, but I’m building up to the truth about the rod. Moses went back and told the children of Israel that he’s to be their deliverer. They were glad. And then he went into Pharaoh and he said, God has told me that you’re to [...]

Now let me just come to Satan’s two objections. If I were to ask for hands up here amongst those who have been baptized in the Spirit, you’ll find 90 percent of the people would put their hands up. Objection number one, the old accuser is right [...]

That’s Satan. Wherever pride enters the human heart, for that’s the influence that caused Satan to rebel against God, pride brings us under the control of Satan. It doesn’t matter whether we are Pentecostals, Baptists, Catholics, that’s not the [...]

And then we get the real motivation of Satan, or Lucifer. Let's call him Lucifer until he becomes Satan. Verse 17: Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. What was the initial [...]

Then it says: Against the world dominators of this present darkness. I deliberately chose to use the word dominate because it is a satanic word. God never dominates. Where you encounter domination, somewhere behind it is Satan; and Satan’s ambition, [...]

Now the theme is: Release from the Curse. And this contains truths which God has been teaching me largely, I would say, in the last five years. Truths which have revolutionized my own life and the lives of countless other people to whom I’ve been [...]

The theme for my talk today is indicated, once again, by the title, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” This is a very central theme to the whole of the New Testament. It’s a theme which vitally concerned every Christian because every Christian is expected [...]

We’ll turn back to Matthew 24. The verse that I quoted was verse 14: This gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come. But the verse before that says: But he who endures to [...]

Now, if there are those of you here this evening who feel that in some way there’s the shadow of a curse over your life and you want to be released, I want to lead you in a prayer of release. You remember the story I told you of Miriam who read the [...]

All right. So now, step three is very simple. What’s step three? Prophesy, isn’t it? Let’s look at a few Scriptures again that encourage us to prophesy. We’ll start in 1 Corinthians 14:1. All right. 1 Corinthians 14:1 Why don’t we all read it [...]

Now all we’re going to do is act on it. Are you all ready? This is how we’re going to do it. At a given signal from me, every one of you will turn to the Lord, shut yourself in and speak in a tongue. All right? You remember, your will is the switch. [...]

This final talk I want to deal with The Church’s Victory. I have tried to briefly define the main enemies we face with the purpose of showing how we can obey God and overcome those enemies by the means that He has provided. The first thing I think [...]

Now I want to speak in this talk about the nature and the structure of Satan’s kingdom and we will turn to Ephesians Chapter 6 and verse 12, which is, I think, the main verse that brings this out. And again, I want to remind you we are now talking [...]

Then we come to another tremendously important area. Perhaps the most common of all, what I call self-imposed curses. People pronounce curses on themselves. In Genesis 27 we have the story of how Isaac was going to bless Esau and the mother Rebekah [...]

God has a purpose which is clearly revealed early on in the New Testament. God has never changed his purpose; He’s working toward it consistently. And it’s stated in a very familiar passage which we call the Lord’s Prayer, Matthew 6:9-10: Our Father [...]

So I want to lay certain foundation truths concerning marriage. First of all, and most important, marriage is a covenant. There are two main passages in the Bible which teach this. A covenant is the most solemn and binding form of commitment that [...]

Then I want to point out two exciting applications of what I’ve been teaching. I trust they’ll excite you. First of all, let’s go back to God’s original purpose in creating man and woman. We go back to Genesis 1:27–28. Genesis 1:27–28: So God [...]

Now in this passage that we have read in 1 John, chapter 2... maybe we should read 1 John 4 just two verses also, verses 2 and 3: 1 John 4, verses 2 and 3: By this you know the Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus the Messiah has [...]

And when your eyes are opened, it is so much easier to deal with it. One of the most common tricks of witchcraft is to make you feel guilty. “Why didn’t you come to see me when I was sick? There I was all alone!” They never regard the fact that the [...]

I run into quite a lot of people today who want to claim to be prophets. But I’m not sure that they’re following the scriptural pattern, because there’s nothing very glamorous about being a prophet according to the Bible. It’s painful. It means [...]

We'll picture the same which you may have never have noticed, in the book of Joel chapter 41. Now the whole of this chapter deals with a creature named Leviathan. There is some kind of marine monster, and we don't know very much about [...]

Now I want to go on from this brief overview of the churches, to chapter 4. Ruth and I read chapter 4 together this morning as we usually read a passage. I was so overcome with the glory of it I broke into tears. I couldn’t read. I discovered one of [...]

Alright, now we are speaking to overcomers, to those who are convinced by faith in Scripture and in Jesus that it is possible to overcome. The first thing we need to understand in dealing with these satanic forces is very important and very basic. [...]

Release from the Curse. And this contains truths which God has been teaching me largely, I would say, in the last five years. Truths which have revolutionized my own life and the lives of countless other people to whom I’ve been privileged to [...]

Now let’s take some historical examples and I have to confess that what I’m going to say is somewhat controversial. The problem with the truth is, it is liable to be controversial. I have certainly no desire to offend anybody and I have no [...]

Alright, now let us look at another main manifestation of the spirit of antichrist. It is extremely important for us as Christians to be well-informed about at this time; that is, Islam, which is the name for the religion of Mohammed. Islam means [...]

In our last session we spoke about the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the supernatural seal of speaking with other tongues. I believe that in the purposes of God, the baptism in the Holy Spirit is intended to be merely a doorway. There has been [...]

The question of laying this foundation in Jesus is extremely important. And so I want to take some time to deal with the issue of how we can have this foundation; that is, the foundation of Jesus in our lives. And I would invite each one of you to [...]

So let me just recapitulate those four successive phases of this encounter which is so basic, because this is how we lay the foundation of Jesus in our lives personally. First of all, there was a confrontation. Second, there was a revelation granted [...]

Moses then proceeded to take over the government of Egypt. And he only used one instrument, what was it? His rod, that’s right. Just that simple shepherd’s staff. Nothing complicated, nothing sophisticated; something that the Egyptians despised [...]

Many, many Christians have never seen this, but in Romans 12:1, Paul writes to Christians on the basis of the redemptive plan of God that he’s unfolded in Romans, and he says: I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present [...]