Rabbi Schneider — Discipline
We've been talking about the fact that there's an invisible reality waiting for you and I to discover. It's here and it's now. You don't have to wait to die to go to heaven to be there.
I mean, some people believe, beloved, in a historical Jesus. They believe in a Jesus that lived 2000 years ago and that's the only Jesus they know. They love to read the Bible stories and study the historical Jesus, and that's as far as it goes for them.
They don't understand that the same Jesus that walked upon the earth 2000 years ago is here. He's present and he's now in the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. I will send the Spirit to you. He will take of me and disclose it unto you.
Some people, beloved, have their eyes focused on a future Jesus only. They're just waiting to die and go to heaven. Some years gone by, they said a sinner's prayer and now they're just waiting till they die to go to heaven to meet Jesus. It's all focused on the future.
But I'm here to proclaim to you that the kingdom of God is also here and now and it's waiting to be discovered. There is a reality that you can access on earth, that you can enter into on earth right now through desire, through faith, through kavanah, intent.
And we're gonna continue on today. I covered those on the first three broadcasts. I encourage you to get this entire series through the contact information at the end of the broadcast today, A Parallel Reality.
We're gonna continue on today, beloved, by talking about the next dimension that is necessary in our lives for us to be walking in if we're gonna fully enter in. I want to talk to you now about the importance, get this now, of having a spirit that resists the flesh, it resists evil, it resists the world.
I want to talk to you about how important it is to practice resisting. Let me begin by reading a few Scriptures for you today. Once again the grass withers and the flowers fade, but hallelujah, the Word of the Lord abides forever. I'm reading from the Book of Galatians, Galatians, chapter 5, verse number 19 through 21. Hear the Word of God:
Hear the Word of God: Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissension, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
We need to be resisting, beloved, these things. Some people don't understand that these things are things that they need to fight against. They just open their heart that whatever they feel, whatever they see, they just receive.
Their door is open when their door should be closed. When we're in a conversation where people begin to gossip, we don't allow ourselves to drift into that. We resist it because the Scripture says that what comes out of our mouth will defile us.
We will not enter into this sphere of victory, this parallel reality that Jesus came to give those of us in this world that would hunger for it and thirst after it if we, we're, we're not resisting the culture of the age that is fueled by demonic forces of darkness. We need to resist.
The Bible says we have not yet resisted to the shedding of blood. Did you realize the New Testament says you have not yet resisted to the shedding of blood? That's how serious, beloved, we must take resisting sin and resisting darkness, and resisting those things that did not originate from the Spirit of God.