2014.04.97.02 Yah’s plan for Healing Marriage – Part 1 – The Coming Tribulation Created by James on 5/15/2019 8:27:42 PM A series of messages given while the marriage series was being recorded relating to coming tribulation and Judgment on the Christian Church and Body of Believers generally. These teachings provide important context to the marriage teachings.
Yah’s plan for Healing Marriage – Part 1 – The Coming Tribulation
A series of messages given while the marriage series was being recorded relating to coming tribulation and Judgment on the Christian Church and Body of Believers generally. These teachings provide important context to the marriage teachings.
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I would like to offer a word of caution.
At this stage (April 2019) these are the raw transcripts as produced by the transcribers. I have not proof read them so there are likely to be minor transcription errors which may in the extreme case impact the accuracy of the transcript. For that reason, as with all material on this website it is up to you to pray about anything that seems doubtful and seek Father Yah’s guidance as to the validity of what you read.
Please also note that my doctrine has matured significantly since the time these tapes were recorded, specifically I no longer use "God", "The LORD", "Jesus" and regard them as Pagan names, I only use respectively "The Almighty", "Yah the Eternally Self-Existing" and "Yahooshua" for these names. I also no longer believe that the Bible is the Word of God and I believe that Yahooshua {Jesus} was entirely a man and a Prophet and NOT the Almighty in the flesh, it was the Spirit of the Almighty ON Yahooshua that performed the miracles and prophesied.
Section 1 -- The Coming Tribulation
James Robertson
1 October 2000 – 31 December 2000
Caution re Transcripts
The transcripts are nearly complete in draft but must still be proofread. Given that they run to over 1,100 pages it will take time for me to do this. There may therefore be minor typographic errors and errors where the transcriber misheard what I said or did not understand it. Regrettably I have used up all available Annual Leave producing this Book Set so it is likely to be a year or longer before I have time to proofread the entire set. However, Father has stated to me that He has been waiting a long time (19 years) for me to make these documents available and that He would rather I publish them now in their present form than wait for a further indeterminate period for me to proofread and publish.
This set provides a comprehensive analysis of the current spiritual dispensation and also why marriage in this age is such a mess and HOW to fix it. I therefore encourage you to read these texts allowing for the possibly of minor mis-transcription to a limited degree.
These recordings were made in 2000 at a time when I was receiving considerable revelation on diverse topics with the result that my doctrine changed substantially during and after the recording of these teachings, nevertheless the fundamental message of these teachings is sound and very important and inspired at a significant level.
Accordingly I must advise caution in reading these texts – there ARE MANY important truths but they are intermingled with significant error relating to the Name of the Almighty, the Name of Yahooshua {Jesus}, the Person of Yahooshua, the Bible and related topics that mostly do NOT impact the overall marriage teaching.
Introduction
This is the introduction to the series of tapes, from Foundation for living Christian Fellowship, entitled The Coming Tribulation. The series of teachings contained in the set, a period of time from the 1st October 2000 to the 31st December 2000, in terms of which God progressively revealed to the congregation the situation in the world today, made a very definite call for holiness and sanctification, and through the prophetic word in particular, made it very clear to us that the time of tribulation was at hand. Judgment was to be expected and we should prepare our hearts for that judgment and seek God as never before. It was also established that there were strong indications to believe that the mark of the beast was a spiritual, rather than a natural mark. This series is included at the beginning of the series, God's plan for healing marriage in the seventh millennium, in order to provide a more detailed spiritual context for this entire set of teachings, as something which God has provided to bring the Bride of Christ to a place of holiness and sanctification, for the return of the Bridegroom. I pray that you will find these teachings and encouragement in Jesus’ name.
01_01 Job and Serving God
Neil Dreyer
Job learned something that was vital. He learned something about God that he didn't know before. He saw God as he'd never seen the Lord before in his life and that’s vital. God had to deal with that man in order to show him what he needed. So often when we get converted, we've got the answers, we know it all and we go forward in our own wisdom, and in our own strength and God keeps pulling back and pulling back and pulling back, until you learn something. That it's not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, sayeth the Lord, but that's the way that it works and there is no other. And you get brought to the end of the tether and you understand that I have a misconception over time. Job was in that category.
Spiritual eyes
Listen to what he has to say in Job 42:1-6. “Then Job said to the Lord, I know that You can do all things and that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained or thwarted. You said to me, who is this that darkens and obscures counsel by words without knowledge. Therefore, I now see I have rashly uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me. I did not know. I had virtually said to You what You’ve said to me. Here I beseech You and I will speak. I will demand of You and You declared to me, I've heard of You only by the hearing of the ear, but now my spiritual eye sees You. Therefore, I loathe my words and abhor myself and repent in dust and in ashes.”
I have heard of You only by the hearing of the ear, but now my spiritual eyes see You, and what I see changes everything that I've ever thought and everything that I've ever desired, and everything that's burned within my heart has been changed, because now I see God. Before I saw him other than myself, I saw a lot of the things that I wanted, and the goals that I had, and the wisdom that I had, but now Lord, I understand that all these things were as nothing. They are as dust. Only what is of God abides and endures. It is only what is of God that is worthwhile. We are passing through this world but once, we will not pass again. Only what’s done in Christ shall last. That's the only work that abides and this man had to realize that he had to understand that my own understanding of the whole situation was all topsy turvy, that what I needed from the beginning was a word from God. What I needed was the wisdom of the Lord to speak into my situation so that I would know what I should be doing to achieve the greatest and the highest and the most. That's what God wants for your life and for mine. Can you say Amen to that. God wants the highest and the best for your life and mine and He aims at it all times, and then we come with our words.
And this man, Job had a total misconception. He had a failure to understand. He listened to the reasons of man. He asked questions why. It was the wisdom of this world that came over his lips, not the wisdom of God, not by inspiration of the Spirit. It arose out of his agony, it arose out of his difficulties, out of his problems, out of his own troubled thinking. These were the questions that he was asking and all the time God was sublimely going right over the top and God knew exactly where He was going and what He was about and what He wanted to achieve in this man's life. It is a wonderful thing to know that God has got a purpose for my life. Can you say Amen to that? It is a wonderful thing for you to know that God has got a purpose for your life, that it didn't happen by accident, that when He called you that day, and you heard His voice, God had a purpose, that’s why He called.
And that wasn’t the end of the calling. That was just the beginning, and He’s leading on beyond that point so that you might grow up into Him in all things and that you might know the joy that is of the Lord. Job heard God's voice and men from time immemorial have heard the voice of God, and it was when men have heard, that things have begun to happen, when men have understood what it is, the purpose of God is, that's the time when things began to happen. And even the supernatural came in through the front door and then handled power in things that they would have dreamed of before, because they understood what God was saying. It is the universal message. I want to tell you, there is no other, it’s here, it’s all here. There are many religions, but there is only one God sir, and there's only one universal message and it is this. - that Jesus Christ died for sinners, that Jesus Christ came into the world to bless you and to me, to give us eternal life and to give us power over sin and over the devil.
Universal message of God
That's why Jesus came into the world. It is the universal message of God. There is no other. Job thought he knew. He was confident in what he thought, very confident. We were at Paddy Bosman’s house yesterday. We were having a discussion, and he was saying that there was a young man that he knew years ago who was in the same line of business that he was in, and he witnessed to this young man and he took exception to it, that Paddy should have the trust to come and speak to him about Jesus Christ. And he says, the man came to my house. I invited him in. He refused to come in and he began to curse God like I'd never heard anybody cursing God before. He stood on my lower lawn and he belittled God and abraded God and made Him little and as if He was of no consequence. He had his day and he said a week later, I read his death notice in the newspaper and it was all over, there was nothing left.
All the words were just air because he'd gone on the wrong side of truth. He got on the wrong side of what God wanted and he began to do and use the wisdom of this world. And this wisdom of this world leads away from God, it doesn't lead to Him and His purposes in the fulfillment of His will. It is not of God, it is of this world. And as I say, it passes away and goes its own way. This is knowledge but knowledge of time. Yet the sum total of the wise men of our day, turn their backs on God and they become so wise that they don't need God anymore. He is out of the picture.
Yuri Gagarin went into outer space. He was the first man that ever did it. When he arrived back on earth planet, he said, I looked for God everywhere and I could not see Him and he didn't know God was all around in nature, didn't cease out there in space and Creation, didn’t cease as far as he went. Creation was there before his eyes. The handy work of God was everywhere, but he could not see, he could not understand. Our sister (Inaudible 00:07:17) has just come back from Poland. She phoned me and she said that I was going to a Pentecostal Church there and then she said something that staggered me. She said, the Polish government does not allow the Church to preach the second coming of Christ. They are not allowed to teach it, it’s out of bounds and they may not say that it is so. And yet it is one of the great facts that are coming our way. We see that that is coming. God is moving by His Spirit all over the face of the earth. Hallelujah, can you say Amen to that? God is moving. I want you to come with me to 1 Corinthians, chapter 2:1-2.
The value of Jesus
Paul’s speaking. He says, “as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony, evidence and mystery of the secret of God concerning what He has done through Christ for the salvation of men. In lofty words of eloquence or human philosophy and wisdom. I didn't go down that avenue because it's a dead end for I resolve to know nothing, to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of the knowledge of nothing and to be conscious of nothing among you, except Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Him crucifying. And I passed into a state of weakness and was in fear and dread and great trembling after I'd come among you. And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive, enticing and plausible words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power that is a proof by the Spirit of the power of God operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers, the most holy emotions and thus persuading them.
So that your faith should not rest in the wisdom of men or human philosophy, but in the power of God. Yet when we were among the full grown, spiritually mature Christians who are ripe in understanding, we do impart a higher wisdom, that is the knowledge of the divine plan, previously hidden that it is indeed not a wisdom of this present age, nor of this world or the leaders and rulers of this age who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away. But rather what we are setting forth is the wisdom of God once hidden from the human understanding and now revealed to us by God, that wisdom which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification, that is to lift us into the glory of His presence. Now listen, none of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood this, for if they had they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory.”
They would have understood the value of Jesus Christ and the message that He was bringing. They would never have crucified Him. They would have Lorded him, they would have lifted Him up and glorified His name for who and what He is, for hear his wisdom. The Bible says the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. That's the beginning. Why is that the wisdom of God? Because the wisdom of God teaches you fear, it teaches you respect, it teaches you that God is, and He cannot be trifled with.
I'm not dealing with the man down the road when I'm dealing with God. I'm not comparing myself with my neighbor. I'm dealing with Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God, and this is the standard of the Lord, and when any human being who is passing through this world and understands that 70 years of my allotted life span, and if by reason of strength I reach eighty, I'm going to pass away. And the place where I stood will no longer be remembered, then wisdom says, my God, where am I going? My God, what is there for me down the line? Is it oblivion I cease to exist?
Resurrection
The Bible says that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third day and became the first fruits of them that slept. God promises a resurrection to all men, some to damnation, some to everlasting life, but a resurrection all men will have. And I can't go into my grave and hide away from my sins there, but they will follow me. And God will deal with them and He will eventually judge them because they are offenses against the living God. I did not fear, and I went and did my thing and I kept on doing it as if there was no God, as if there were no comebacks, as if there were no price tags on what I was doing. And God knows there's nothing that you get in this world that is for nothing. There is a price tag on absolutely everything. You pay the full price. You don't take anything for nothing. God knows that, and God wants to work in your life and in my life, those works that abide, those things that are not troubled by the passage of time.
I place a deposit in the heavenlies. My treasure is not upon the earth. My treasure is in Heaven and neither moth nor rust can corrupt, and men cannot break through and steal, where nobody can take my credit away from me because God is the guardian of my credit, and He’s got my account and He knows everything about Neil Dreyer. I remember when I was just a young man, full of myself, and I was arrogant without knowing the arrogance and the extent of the arrogance. I did not understand how far I was away from God, how far I was away from that which was right and that which was good and that which was noble and honorable.
I had no understanding of these things and then one night, God came into my life, came knocking on the door of my heart and He changed me in an instant of time, and I became a brand new creature in Christ. And suddenly I understood so many things like Job understood. I knew what was happening for the first time in my life. Up to that point of time I had the wisdom of this world and it led me astray. It led me into all kinds of experiences that were not good for me, and then suddenly I saw God, and seeing God I solved that and I understood that all of these things were empty. They were passing away as if they never were, and the things of God where the abiding things.
Paul the Apostle
The Apostle Paul had only one message. He comes to the Areopagus, this place in Athens, place of learning, the center, where people are always asking questions and putting forth new theories. And here he comes along to speak to these people in the previous chapter. The Bible says that he gave the Word of God to the people. It was God's Word the man was speaking. And the wise men of this world heard of this man and they said, we would hear what this babbler has to say. This one that stacks together some thoughts of his own, we'll hear what he's got to say. And Paul’s got to get up nwith the Areopagus and he's got to speak in the name of God. And he sets forth God and he says, when I passed by, I saw an altar to the unknown God, whom he therefore worshipped in ignorance, him declare I unto you. And he began to speak one thing, and it was the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus is alive. Jesus died and He rose again on the third day. This is my message, I know no other.
Wisdom
In these days, I'm seeing a lot of wisdom. I'm seeing a lot of things coming from the United States of America and there are so many ideas, so many thoughts about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You know, there's so much, I asked the question, where is the simplicity of the Gospel? Where's it gone to? What happened? People come along and they are so (inaudible 00:15:15), they are so clever. They were clever in Paul's day. They are clever in ours. This is the most knowledgeable generation of all time. We know more than any previous generation has ever known, and with all our knowledge we've turned our backs on God. The wise men of this world say you don't need Him, you have evolved from the apes, you didn't come from the Creation of God and you need not concern yourself about these things. I want to tell you, when people start talking like that, I have one answer that comes to my mind. What of Jesus Christ? What is everything that Jesus did? And He lived, and everything that He said, what about these things? Jesus is the authority, hear His wisdom, it is found in Him.
The Bible tells us that God will make foolishness the wisdom of men. That's coming. It's on the agenda. Let me tell you it’s around the corner. When suddenly all of the things that men have built up will come to nothing. We have discovered the human genome and we can't see the handiwork of God. We don't know where He’s at, we don't know how to hear His voice, we don't how to speak to Him generally. There is a need that is in our world of God that is tremendous. You've got to be blind not to know that we’re tobogganing towards a tragedy. You've got to be blind not to understand that God and what He has said is coming to pass before your eyes. We need the Lord, we need His wisdom and the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.
The wisest thing that I've ever done in my life was when I got down on my knees, in the city of Pretoria, in the foyer and with all my heart I said, God forgive me, God, cleanse me from all my sin, give me another chance. Lord, tell me, teach me how to live my life differently, because the way that I'm living my life now, the way that I'm living this one is heading toward tragedy, I can see it. Scales were taken off my eyes and you know, I saw Neil Dreyer, and I saw my God and the comparison was tremendous. I was right out of my depth and I understood there’s only One that can save me. My arrogance must go out through the door, my self-sufficiency must go out through the door. And with everything that I've got, I'm going to say God, I need You, I need Your touch upon my life, I need You to work within me the things that I cannot work myself. Can you say Amen to that?
Conclusion
I want you to close your eyes. Jesus, Jesus. I've been preaching. It’s not what I've been saying that's important, it's what the Spirit of God has been saying to you. What have you picked up here this morning? What did God zero in on as I was speaking to you? This is a matter between you and the Lord. It's personal, but I know that God's been speaking from the beginning of the service and God’s been challenging us. Folks, we've got to take God into account. You've got to take into account what God wants. You've got to seek Him and find Him so that He might direct us as a body, and direct us as individuals and families, so that God's will can be done in our lives. This is what's needed.
I want you to reach out toward the Lord, as you're sitting there this morning, for your need. You know what God's called you to. Cry to God for that thing. Ask Him, Lord, work in my life these things, You know I can’t do it for myself. You can’t it for yourself. God can, only God can. Allow the Lord to work in your life. Allow Him to work this morning, right there as you're sitting in your seat and say, Lord, here am I, You know me, You know the date of my birth, You know the time of my departure from this world, You know everything in between. Oh God, help me to fill in the things of the Lord, to do the most that I can. At least the furtherest that I can. Anoint me by Your Spirit, Lord. Use me for Your glory. Direct my steps oh God, because I dare not walk alone. I don't know the way. I don't have the answers. Only You do. Oh God, bless me.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, we come to You in the lovely name of Jesus as a congregation this morning and we need you desperately, Lord. We need everything that You can give, and oh God, we know that they’re on tap, that You said in Your word that You will anoint by Your Spirit, that You will show signs and wonders and mighty deeds of the Holy Ghost. You said that in Your Word, Heavenly Father, we come to You and we pray (inaudible 00:20:14) prayer here this morning. We are standing together, Lord. It’s not just Pastor Dreyer, it’s Pastor Dreyer and the people. We’re asking, oh God, that You will work out Your will in this congregation, in these lives. Lord, do things that are all together different, we pray, and Lord, we'll give You the glory and the praise and the honor as we see people being changed, as we see people being reached, as we see the name of God being glorified in our suburbs. Lord, in Jesus name, pour out Your Spirit. We pray that no evil force will be able to stay it, oh God, but that it will flow like a mighty river, oh God, accomplishing Your will. Do it, Lord, we pray, and we'll give You the praise, the glory and the honor because You are our God. Thank you Lord, in Jesus name. Amen.
James Robertson
The Lord told me, yesterday in fact, that He wanted this message taped and shared with others, so we've taped it and there will be copies available for those who want it. But He just gave me during Neil's message, just a passage of Scripture and it's important that you understand the context. Yesterday was the first day of the days of awe, the awesome days, and the ninth of October is the Day of Atonement. From that, we go onto the Feast of Tabernacles, and in God's calendar those are very, very important days in any year, but they are particularly important days right now. The days of awe are the days that you are given at the end of the year to get your life right with God. And that is the message that the Lord gave to Neil today. It's really important that you understand that. God is saying now, not tomorrow, not next week, is the time to get your life right with Him because He is about to do a great thing on the earth. Those of you who have got Bibles just turn with me to Matthew 24 please. And I'm sure you're familiar with Matthew 24. I'm not going to read the whole passage, but I want to take you to verse 9, and the next few verses.
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My Name's sake, and then many will be offended, will betray one another and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many, and because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold, but he who endures to the end, shall be saved, and this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come.”
And then the next passage goes on to speak of the abomination of desolation in the temple. There is much happening that you may or may not be aware of, there are threats of bomb attacks in Jerusalem right now, there are all sorts of things happening in the world that are not widely known, many of which speak to the fulfillment of those prophecies.
And while I would be the last to say with absolute certainty that we are now on the very threshold of the fulfillment with those prophecies, I truly believe with all my heart that we are indeed at that point. I believe that the message that Neil brought to us very profoundly confirms that that which was prayed before the meeting, the words that were brought in the meeting before the message, confirmed that to me. And I really, really encourage everybody here. You're not here by accident. You're not here just because you kind of thought, well maybe I’d pitch up today. You are here because God has a very, very, very important message for you today. Today, there is a trite saying in the world, today's the first day of the rest of your life, but today is the first day of the rest of your service to Jesus Christ. Today is the day where you have an opportunity at the beginning of the days of all, leading up to the Day of Atonement in just over a week's time to make a decision?
Will you do what God has called you to do? There's not a person in this room who doesn't know what God has called them to do. The question is, are you in a place that I've just come out of? I have just come out of two, three-day fasts seeking to get my life right because I realized there was much that the Lord had called me to do, that I had been slack and not faithful in performing. The question of the Lord to each one of us today is, will you lay down your life, starting now and do all that He’s called you to do no matter what the cost? Will you stop putting your job first, will you stop putting your interests first, will you stop putting your hobbies first, will you stop even putting your family first. Will you do what He's told you to do?
Some of you have been called to go and preach the Gospel elsewhere in the world. Some of you have been called to ministries that are so out of line with what our understanding can believe that God has called you to do, that you’re scared to share it with anybody. But God is saying to you, today, will you lay down your life and go and do what I've called you to do because My ways are not your ways, My thoughts are not your thoughts, My thoughts are higher than your thoughts, beyond anything that you can ask or imagine, and I have a plan and a purpose for you. Will you do what I've called you to do today, says the Lord, because you are a vital part of the plan and I don't have time anymore to mess around with unfaithful people, or with disobedient people. I'm calling you today to do what I have for you to do. And that is the Word of the Lord for every one of us this morning.
So I would really encourage you, and with Neil's consent, that anybody who has received that message this morning, anybody who is convicted of that message, Neil, if you're in agreement, if they could perhaps just come forward and just pray for them. So if there is anybody who wants to just make a resolute, no turning back commitment to go and do whatever it is that right now you know is in your heart, that God has called you to do. Are you prepared to say, I have to resign my job tomorrow, I will resign my job tomorrow. If I have to step out in faith and do whatever I have to do in order to accomplish that which God has called me to do, no matter how big and how wide and how deep it seems to you, He will take you. But He is looking for people who, like Isaiah will say, here I am, send me. So if there's anybody here who wants to respond to that, please if you'd just come to the front and perhaps Neil, and perhaps myself can just pray briefly for you.
Community Church is a Pentecostal Church that believes the Gospel is the most important message for this and any other generation. I was therefore surprised to read a poster put out by the Mail and Guardian newspaper that the day of the Christian Church is numbered. I do not believe that there is any power that can annul what Christ alone could do, and that this message of redemption must be declared to the ends of the earth. To this end, we are producing these tapes for distribution free of charge. If this has been a blessing to you, please assist us by passing it on. Thank you for your cooperation. God bless you.
If you have listened to this tape and it has made an impact upon your life and you realize your need, may I pray for you that Jesus Christ may enter your life and bring about the changes that are necessary? In Jesus' name, I pray that God will move by His Spirit upon your life, that your whole future shall be coloured by the fact that Jesus is alive and that He's alive and triumphant in your life. May God bless you and use you for His glory, for we need every mouth, we need every effort to bring the message across to those that stand in desperate need. God bless you. Amen.
Foundation for Living Community Church meets at the South African Vroue Federasie Hall, Jack Hendon Street, Pretoria North. It is pastored by Neil Dreyer, an Apostle of God, who can be contacted on 012 808 1650. Meetings are each Sunday, 09h30 in the morning at the SAVF hall. Should you be led by the Lord to sow into this ministry, banking account details are as follows. Account name: NJ Dreyer, Bank: First National Bank, Branch: Silverton, Account Number: 51030119874, Branch Code: 25084500. You are free to copy these tapes without restriction and to distribute them as widely as you feel led. Please remember only that each of us is called to account on the Day of Judgment for what we do with the Word of God. Should you require additional copies of this tape, please contact me, James Robertson, on Johannesburg, that’s 011 791 2327, or cell phone 083 251 0644, or fax 011-791 5004 or email jamesr@infodoor.co.za, and we will make arrangements to get copies of this tape to you. May the Lord bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Lord of Lords and King of kings. Amen.
01_02 Job and Sanctify Yourselves
Neil Dreyer -- 8 October 2000
I want you to come with me to the book of Hebrews 10th Chapter. Hebrews Chapter 10. I am reading from the 11th verse of Hebrews Chapter 10. We'll take it from the 8th verse. The Lord speaking, says, “sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you do not desire, nor were you pleased with them, although the Lord required them to be made. Then He said, ‘here am I, I've come to do Your will.’ He sets aside the first to establish the second and by that will we’ve been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again, and again, He offers the same sacrifices which can never take away sins, but when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made His footstool because by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.”
Notice the language there. He says He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. It’s a continuous process that has been done. “’This is the Covenant I will make with them. After that time, says the Lord, I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them in their minds’. Then He adds, ‘their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more,’ and where these have been forgiven there is no longer any sacrifice for sin. Therefore, brothers , since we have confidence to enter into the most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and a living way, opening up for us through the curtain that is His body. And since we have a great high Priest over the House of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart, in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess for He who promised is faithful. Let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds. Let us not giving up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another and all the more, as you see the day approaching. He says, if we deliberately keep on sinning after we've received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, only a fearful experience, expectation of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies.”
In another translation, it says our Father God is a consuming fire. Then come to chapter 12. He says there, verse 18. "You have not come to the mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, because they could not bear that was commanded, if even an animal touched the mountain it was stoned. The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, I am trembling with fear. But you have come to Mount Zion to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You've come to thousands upon thousands of Angels in joyful assembly, to the Church of the firstborn whose names are written in heaven. You've come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of the new Covenant and to the sprinkling of the blood that speaks better things than the blood of Abel. So, see to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth , how much less shall we, if we turn away from Him who warns us from Heaven? At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised once more, I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” The words “once more” indicate the moving of what can be shaken, that is created things, so that what cannot be shaken may remain. “Therefore, since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and so worship God acceptably, with reverence and awful fear for our God is a consuming fire. “
Heavenly father, we worship You and magnify Your lovely name this morning for the fullness of Your work, for the fullness of Your provision, oh God. Heavenly Father, just as in the world, You established everything it was necessary for us to maintain, generation after generation so that it is self-contained. (Inaudible 00:05:19) and You made everything possible for the maintenance of spiritual life and that entered into Your presence, oh God, (inaudible 00:05:30)). We bless You, we magnify Your name. You left nothing undone, no stone unturned, every provision has been made long before we knew it was there You placed it there and You waited for us to discover, oh God, in Your presence, in Your mercy, we bless You that You've done that for us in (inaudible 00:05:49) through Jesus Christ, our Lord and nothing, nothing shall be able to be taken away from us for God guarantees it (inaudible 00:06:00). We ask, oh God that You will bless Your (inaudible 00:06:05) and that we might hear and that we might rejoice in You and magnify Your name. Thank You, Father, in that lovely name we ask it, praising You because You hear us in that name. Amen.
Two encounters
We have just read about two encounters with the living God, two encounters that were terrifying to the people involved. We hear that the first account was taking place at Mount Sinai when the mountain shook and there was fire on the mountain, and the place trembled and the people cried out to God and said "God, stop speaking to us because we can't bear the voice that we're hearing." And I believe that Moses also cried out with the people. They were terrified at the presence of the living God. In God is Holy, in God is awesome, God is all powerful. He is bigger than our biggest big, and we must understand that. We are dealing with a living God, an almighty God. You're not dealing with a man down the road. We're dealing with God and with God (inaudible 00:07:08). And so, Moses and the people of Israel cried out and said, "Please Lord, withhold Your hand because we can't bear the glory."
And then we hear of another account that takes place after the resurrection of Jesus Christ and this takes place in the Heavens. This is not on the earth any longer, I want to tell you that the same awe and terror paves the way. Throughout the whole of the Bible there is active obedience toward the living God. This willingness to bow down to His Glory and to give Him all the honor and the praise that is due unto His name, so that we stand in awe of Him at all times. There is no familiarity with God in the whole of the Bible. Whenever there was an epiphany, when God appeared on the earth, the people that saw Him trembled and were afraid, and some of them were sick for a period of time after having seen this majestic sight. And they walked away from it different people because they understood who they were dealing with. And many times, in the world there are people that have no inkling whatsoever who it is that they're dealing with, they don't understand Him, they've never seen Him, and so they have their own minds view of what God is. And it is a human view, and it is limited by the humanity of the people that are beholding Him.
God is big
God is bigger than our biggest imagination. We can't understand it at all, and I'm so concerned nowadays at the familiarity that I'm seeing all around me towards God, even amongst the religious people, a familiarity so that we bring God to a position where He is equal with us, and we can speak to Him as we do to our friends around the corner. God cannot be trifled with. He is Almighty. The Bible tells us here that we must enter into His presence and we must do so with a pure heart, with a heart that's been cleansed by sprinkling. We must have a conscience that is purged before we enter into the presence of God. That is a prerequisite, because God cannot tolerate sin and sin cannot come close to God.
There are many people that ridicule God. There are many people who make God small in their times, in their talking and in their thinking, and they boast of great things, and this is very fearful ground. It is terrible ground to be on. It is dangerous territory, not only for the person who's talking that way about God, but terrible for the people who are hearing it as well, because they are impressed by it. It seems to be so strong and so powerful and the person seems to have such definite ideas that he must be a strong person, but I'll tell you this, who is it that runs when the Glory of God is revealed? Who is it when the Glory of God begins to praise forth, who will be the one that finds out and says mountains, cover us and hide us from Him that sits upon the Throne and His Glory? Who is it that runs?
I'll tell you, it will be the profane. It will be the people that have treated God lightly. You can only treat God Almighty lightly at a distance, if the distance is the distance of sin. It is sin that blinds the eyes of men to the Glory of God so they don’t understand who it is that they’re working with and who it is they’re talking about, the language that they use you would think that God doesn’t hear it, that there’s no book that’s recording every deed and every word that men are speaking. They think that they can say what they say with liberty, without any context, I can say what I like because I am so strong in my own ability, in my own thinking and in my own mind. I’m strong, I don’t need God. Who is it that walks into a consuming fire? Who is it that walks into the Holiness of God Almighty? Who is it? There are many that will walk more quietly into Gods presence without bowing their heads. They are the ignorant ones. They are the fools that the Bible speaks about. They think that God is nothing. And they've got an idea that is wrong, an idea that is from the Devil, not from God. They don't understand that the Lord is greater than what they think, and they're not giving Him the honor that is due unto His name.
Come close to God
When we come into His presence, we come with reverential fear. Fear is the birth place of faith, let me tell you that, the fire of God is the birth place of faith. It's when we come close to Him that we begin to see what He is, who He is and what He's capable of. In order for you to come close to God, out of the fire, and no man wants to come near to God because we don't want to be exposed by the presence of this Holy One. We don't want God to see deep into our hearts and what's going on in our minds all the time. If God looks inside and He sees, and He beholds the sin, and He know that my sins have separated me from God, that's the thing that stands in the way, the only thing that is in the way of my sin, my pride, my arrogance, my belief in myself and not my belief in God. I need to come to the point where I am walking with Him on His terms, and He understands that I'm doing it from my heart, and He knows that it's real and it's sincere.
I must come before Him with a true heart, but He says, come to Me. It is necessary for me to come to the fire in order to be saved. I've got to be there. The fire must burn, the fire must reveal me for who I am in the sight of God, not in the sight of my neighbour, in the sight of God Almighty, who am I? What am I? Where am I going? What are my goals? What are my ambitions? What are the things that are the driving forces in my life? What are they? How can they have anything to do with God Almighty? How (inaudible 00:13:16) How much of God is there in my life? This is the question that we need to be settled in order for you to find out. I need you to come to the fire, and He says that it must be burned, (inaudible 00:13:33), He left a mark on me that I will remember until the day that I die. He taught me a lesson that I will never forget because I understood, suddenly I understood I am dealing with God here. I'm dealing with what He wants from my life and I understood that I was out of line, and that's a terrible realization.
You know the profane person that is mentioned in the Bible, he is evil. The Bible says that he sold his birth right for a paddle of porridge. It wasn't important. That's why he said it wasn't important, (inaudible 00:14:14). He didn't understand we need the might of Christ to keep us walking in the path that God wants us to go. We need the might of Christ and we need to renew it daily. We need to come before Him every day, bow down and say My Lord, what do you want? What is it in my life that You want to focus on? What do You want to do? What do You want to get rid of in my life? What do You want to do? I said to you on a previous occasion that there's one experience of being born-again, but there are many conversions and God leads you on in different paths so that you might grow.
Faith
And Esau came to the time when what his (inaudible 00:14:53) was more important than what He asked him. And so many Christians out here, are not here, and they act here, and they put it here, but God wants it here and He wants it here, in the heart and in the mind. He wants us to walk with Him, according to His precepts, and according to His Commandments. He says, I'll write them on their minds and in their hearts by My Spirit, I'll do that so that they can walk with Me and abide to the shadow of the Almighty. The Bible says this, that if I have faith as a mustard seed, I'll be able to tell a mountain to move, and it will move. What will it be, my brother, when I enter into the (inaudible 00:15:34) of all because I have delighted in Christ and (inaudible 00:15:37) in the fullness of faith? What is the fullness of faith that God is speaking about? There are different kinds of faith, there is little faith, there is great faith, there is much faith, and there is no faith. All of these are things that happen within the hearts and the minds of the people.
Some come before God with no faith and nothing happens (inaudible 00:16:05). He's got to believe God and who God is. He must believe in the honesty and (inaudible 00:16:11). If God says that thing, that's what He means. That's the basis of our faith. If God says it, I believe it. That's what I am. There are people who come before God and great things have happened as a result, in the fullness of the assurance of faith where I am assured. You remember what Jesus said to His disciples. He was talking about the woman that gave birth to a child, that she had agony until the child was born, and when the child was born, she had much joy because the child was reborn to her. She doesn't forget the anguish. If God is (inaudible 00:16:50) Ask in My name, and it shall be given by My Father and He shall (inaudible 00:16:59) I’m making it possible for you, I am sitting by my Father at the right hand, the Majesty on high to fulfil what (inaudible 00:17:09) talks about, this fullness here, the Kingdom of Holiness of God (inaudible 00:17:13) - (00:17:25) And you can come before my Father and you can ask Him, and He will bless you and work within your life those things that are from above.
I think of the man Abraham, how that man was told by God to go in the country that he knew not and being obedient he went, not knowing, he didn't know (inaudible 00:17:47) -(00:17:53) that's the first time that I'm really believing, when I don't know anymore, when I can't believe the truth with my mind and I rely entirely on God, that's the first sign that I'm believing and that's why he came away from everything that he knew, into the area where he didn't know. He never saw it coming (inaudible 00:18:14)- (00:18:18) was going, and God saw the man (inaudible 00:18:20) - (00:18:26) see, and wherever you put the soles of your foot I'm going to give it to you. I'm going to reward you because you have full assurance of faith, you have believed Me, you trusted Me completely, and I say to you beloved (inaudible 00:18:41) - (00:18:57) that you might know this blessing that I'm offering, the world is (inaudible 00:19:05). The world needs it today. We don't need the ideas of men, we don't need the wisdom of men, I can tell you. We need the wisdom of God. We need all to move in the nation. We were talking in Cape Town yesterday morning and we were saying that there's such filth flowing into the world as never before, and I said (inaudible 00:19:26) that we allowed the sin to come into the world, is not the biggest sin. The biggest sin that there is, is that we condone it, (inaudible00:19:38) - (00:19:45) We're doing the right thing for the first time. Beloved you've got to be mad to think what we are doing is right. (inaudible 00:19:53) - (00:20:09) but what people are doing.
Perilous signs shall come because men will be lovers of their own selves more than lovers of God and he gives you a list of things that are happening today all around us. You can hear it in the news, you can see it in the newspaper. It's happening and it's man made. It comes through man, by the devil, in opposition to the living God. Do we need the assurance, that full assurance of faith? We need it. (inaudible 00:20:34) You need it, I need it, the Church of God needs it. We need to step up to each other, not into the old, we've got to step over, we've got to breach this thing and we've got to step into the Holiest of all into what is our right, into what is our rightful claim, (inaudible 00:21:00). What do you think of yourself this morning? When we say, enter into the presence of God, how do we enter? Measuring with the fullness that a child has.
I remember my father died in his 80's. My mother died in her 60's. My Dad (Inaudible 00:21:23) - (00:21:36) And he said my son, I long for the day when you put your (inaudible 00:21:42) - (00:21:46) I want to invite you and when you come to God with the full assurance of a child, (inaudible 00:21:52) - (00:22:17) to be in a position where I can come before God and say Lord, I'm asking for this and I truly believe that I am going to get it because Jesus gave it to me. Can you say Amen to that? That's what God wants for you and that's what God wants for me. I must make a confession. I just borrowed somebody else's Bible here. I left the mic at home so we couldn't tape the sermon. I left my Bible at home so I can't preach. Anyway, praise the Lord.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, we come to You in the lovely name of Jesus and we worship You. We bless Your lovely name, oh God, because You've got such things for us that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart the things God had prepared for them, and lovingly called according to His purposes. I thank You Lord that You've done that, that You've made a way for us, oh God, to walk in, a way to walk in and experience the path with You, You've made it possible through Jesus Christ and we worship You, oh Lord. If this is what You want to give us, oh God, in Jesus name we need it. Heavenly Father help us to take it in installments, everything that's there, every table is full. Father help us to help ourselves as we pray Lord in the fullness that you invest. We thank you Lord for the message You've given us. Repeat with me, and we're standing on the threshold of something much bigger that's coming, we've been hearing sounds of the (inaudible 00:24:00) - (00:24:14) and we understand the times are vitally important at this time. Guide us oh God, we pray, that we will reach as far as we can (inaudible 00:24:25) and do as much as we can do by Your grace oh God, (inaudible 00:24:31) - (00:24:40) ordinary people. (inaudible 00:24:43) - (00:24:54) that Jesus may be brought (inaudible 00:24:56) - (00:25:03) In Jesus name. Thank You, Lord. Amen.
On Wednesday there will be a sermon meeting here as usual. The one in (inaudible 00:25:40) Park, has moved to Sunday night. There'll be the dedication of the organ soon. Birthdays, the 9th. Is the 9th your age? Many happy returns of the day. May God bless you. We ask to pray for Eddie and Lienie. Lienie is a sick lady. Pray for Paddy. He has an aortic aneurism. Pray for Aunty Muriel, for sister Els, for Paul and our sister. The other couple that come here, their mother is not well. We are going to go see them after the service this morning. Pray for the Van Der Heevers. She has heart trouble. Pray for the coming dedication service that God will bless it and use it for His glory.
Next week, tea duty will be Mavis's team. You see the sign up there, Kerrin Sher. I've got stuff in the boot of my car, sister, that I want to give to you, and anything that you can bring along to assist, like toiletries, soap, tissues, that kind of thing, please do, they can use it. Okay, will you take the plant in for us. Praise the Lord.
James Robertson
I just want to share something with you in the light of Neil's message. The Lord has taken me on a series of three days fasts, so I've been eating for seven days, fasting for three days, and I've just come off the third fast this morning. Then I fasted sleep as well last night. I got to bed at about 3-4 o'clock this morning. At 10 o'clock last night I was led to tune in to CNN. I hardly ever watch television. You may or may not have seen the papers. The Prime Minister of Israel has given the Palestinians until tomorrow to stop the hostilities otherwise he is cancelling all peace processes. At 2 o'clock this morning I tuned into CNN again. Moments before that, the United Nations security councilor passed a vote, fourteen in favor condemning Israel and United States had abstained, and it is very uncommon for the United States to abstain. You may not be aware of the heart of the issue. The heart of the issue is the Muslims have taken operation of the Temple Mount, massive mosques in the basis of Solomon’s temple, and for the last two years they've been progressively preventing the Jews from coming to the temple. It has reached the point now where they are even seeking to prevent the Jews coming to the (inaudible 00:29:04).
So, what you read in the press about Ariel Sharon visiting the Temple Mount is a complete smokescreen of the enemy. What we're facing here is a situation where Satan has been seeking to deny the Jews access to the Temple. Again, you may not be aware, some years ago, a red heifer was born for the first time in something like two or three thousand years. So, for the first time it is actually possible for a Levite to be sanctified for temple service, because for something like two or three thousand years, there has not been a red heifer. You may also not be aware that after the Covenant had been found, all the temple literature had been found. God is moving in this situation, and the Jews are looking for the return of the Messiah imminently, and they're looking for the signs for the reconstruction of the temple.
So, you have a massive conflict here in the spiritual realm that the Jews have been standing for all these thousands of years, for the reconstruction of the temple, on the Temple Mount. And right now, where they see the fulfillment of that, they see the red heifer, they see other things coming to pass, they see the signs of the times Neil was referring to. And suddenly it seems to be slipping out of their grasp. There are now five mosques apparently on the Temple Mount, and the Jews have been virtually prevented from accessing it. I believe in my spirit that there is every reason - and I brought through some documents - I think I actually put them in Neil's car, there are a number of prophecies which suggest that the war of God would start on the 28th and the 29th of September. I think I shared that with you last week. The hostilities began at that date. I think there's strong reason for us to believe that all-out war is going to break out in Israel tomorrow. There is a very profound reason for it to be tomorrow because tomorrow is the Day of Atonement, and that is a very significant day in Gods calendar. It ties in again with what Neil is saying, we are at the very brink of judgment. I would hesitate to say with certainty that we are absolutely at the doors of the tribulation, but it does seem that way to me. I was on the internet last night, just looking at what various people are saying, and there is a broad consensus that around about the next couple of weeks, something dramatic is foretold by Scripture.
There are different opinions. Some people are looking to the rapture, some people are looking to the tribulation, some people are looking to the war of God, some people are looking at other things but everybody, virtually without exception, is looking to something to happen in the next couple of weeks. The great day of the feast of Tabernacles is the 24th of October. That is another very significant day in God's calendar. So, I would really urge everybody here today, Neil’s message is a message of great importance today. It's a message which deals with what God requires of us. We can no longer play games with God, we can no longer pursue our idle interpretations of the Word of God and twist the Word of God as I've seen in so many of these in things, to try and make the Word of God say what we want it to say or what we don't want it to say. But I would council everybody here, be prepared for what looks to me like all out warfare.
Last night they were deploying tanks throughout Israel, in areas in Jerusalem where there haven't been tanks in something like 12 years. They airlifted troops onto the Lebanese border. The Israeli troops were taken hostage yesterday. So, President Bill Clinton cancelled all his appointments last night in order to devote all his attention to it. The banner on CNN is ‘crisis in the Middle East’. I believe there are strong reasons that if it is not tomorrow, within days, but I believe there are strong reasons to believe tomorrow we will see a declaration of war. I believe we will see that flare up into quite possibly the third world war. But whatever it is, it will be massive conflict and recognize also that there is turmoil in Yugoslavia at the moment.
Yugoslavia is part of the heritage of Gog and Magog. Gog and Magog are two of the descendants of Noah who moved North into Russia, Yugoslavia and that area. So, it is no coincidence that what is happening in Russia right now. So, whatever happens, and it's not possible for us to know precisely what's going to happen, but I think we must expect great turmoil and with that, we must expect the other side of what Neil was talking about. We are going to see great judgment around the world for the flippant and presumptuous manner in which many, many people in the Body of Christ have treated God. I really believe that the cup is about to overflow, and everybody here should really be searching their hearts. There is nothing more important to date. As of this moment at 30 minutes past 10, on the 8th of October, year 2000, there is nothing more important than getting your life right with God, getting as close to God as you possibly can, because if you want to walk through the furnace the way Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did, if you want to go into the den with the lions and have the mouths of the lions stopped up by the Angels, you had better be in right standing with God, and you had better be in the place that Neil was talking about. If you are being trite and flippant about your relationship with God, you better believe you're not going to stand in the judgment which is (inaudible 00:34:57).
The Community Church is a Pentecostal Church that believes the Gospel is the most important message for this and any other generation. I was therefore surprised to read a poster put up by the Mail and Guardian newspaper that the day of the Christian Church is numbered. I do not believe that there is any power that can annul what Christ alone could do and that this message of redemption must be declared to the ends of the earth. To this end, we are producing these tapes for distribution free of charge. If this one has been a blessing to you please assist us by passing it on. We thank you for your cooperation. God bless you. If you have listened to this tape and it has made an impact upon your life and you realize your need may I pray for you that Jesus Christ may enter your life and bring about the changes that are necessary. In Jesus' name, I pray that God will move by His Spirit upon your life, that your whole future shall be coloured by the fact that Jesus is alive and that He's alive and triumphant in your life. May God bless you and use you for His glory, for we need every mouth, and we need every effort to bring the message across to those that stand in desperate need. God bless you. Amen.
Foundation for Living Community Church meets at the South African Vroue Federasie hall, Jack Hendon Street, Pretoria North. It is pastored by Neil Dreyer, an Apostle of God, who can be contacted on 012 808 1650. Meetings are every Sunday at 09h30 in the morning at the SAVF hall. Should you be led by the Lord to sow into this ministry, banking account details are as follows. Account name: NJ Dreyer, Bank: First National Bank, Branch: Silverton, Account Number: 51030119874, Branch Code: 25084500. You are free to copy these tapes without restriction and to distribute them as widely as you feel led. Please remember only that each of us is called to account on the Day of Judgment for what we do with the Word of God. Should you require additional copies of this tape, please contact me, James Robertson on Johannesburg, that’s 011 791 2327 or cell phone 083 251 0644 or fax 011 791 5004 or email jamesr@infodoor.co.za and we will make arrangements to get copies of this tape to you. May the Lord bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Lord of Lords and King of kings. Amen.
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