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The Housetop#99 - The Doctrines of Christ, Part 4, "Faith Defined, Faith Derived"#99 - The Doctrines of Christ, Part 4, "Faith Defined, Faith Derived"2024-05-2050 min
The Housetop#98 - The Doctrines of Christ, Part 3, "The Foundation of Repentance from Dead Works - Part 2"#98 - The Doctrines of Christ, Part 3, "The Foundation of Repentance from Dead Works - Part 2"
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The Housetop#97 - The Doctrines of Christ, Part 2, "The Foundation of Repentance from Dead Works - Part 1"Repentance from dead works and faith toward God are foundational doctrines undergirding everything that is. Some of us never get to the bedrock of Christ because we've never established the foundations.
Repentance is a supernatural change of mind as we change our thinking to think more like Christ. Repentance is the message that makes us ready to receive the Lord. When
we try to put Jesus in an unrepentant life with the absence of this preaching,
there’s such a faulty foundation that people crumble and fall.
The gospel begins with the me...2024-05-051h 10
The Housetop#96 - The Doctrines of Christ, Part 1, "Introduction"It was once the common understanding that once a person was discipled, they would be able to take what they had received and give it to another. This is how the church functioned. Faithful men would teach faithful men.
But today there is a difficulty bringing people to maturity. Many are in perpetual spiritual infancy and never grow up or bear fruit. Those who have been in the Lord for years seem to never advance in their spiritual growth.
If we have received, then why can't we give? Or the real ques...2024-04-291h 03
The Housetop#95 - Ephesians, Part 20, "Spiritual Warfare - Part 2"We have to awaken to the idea that we are in a spiritual war. We are not wrestling against flesh and blood. We are fighting demonic entities that have usurped godly creations, and we cannot fight in the spiritual arena with carnal means.
It's time to open our eyes to the spiritual forces around us. We are in a spiritual conquest and there’s a battle raging for our souls. It’s time to get full of the Holy Ghost and fight like you're going to win.
We are victors when we a...2024-04-1857 min
The Housetop#94 - Ephesians, Part 19, "Spiritual Warfare - Part 1"The devil is a real adversary and foe who is after your soul. He's doing everything to mess you up, thwart your efforts, ruin your witness, and make you blaspheme. Our human strength is no match for the demonic. This is a reality of the Christian walk.
When we face the enemy, we are to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Our strength will fail but God will never fail.
As a Christian, you will experience spiritual warfare. God is readying and preparing us, but we h...2024-04-0756 min
The Housetop#93 - Ephesians, Part 18, "Work, as unto the Lord"Christ has called us to servanthood. We should serve others like we are serving the Lord. Our jobs can be seen as the mission field as we aim to reflect His glory well wherever we go. Even in the workplace, we can make a difference and be witness and a real testimony for Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ was known as a servant. He served everyone He came in contact with. The Spirit of God will not rest on our pride and spirit of independence. It is vital we keep a right spirit.
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The Housetop#92 - Ephesians, Part 17, "Children"The family is under unprecedented attack. We must look at the warfare going on in the family, and in particular in regard to our children. We must train our children and help them navigate through these perilous times that we live in right now. It takes hard work.
It’s time for Christians to really take to heart the stewardship God has given us in our children. We have responsibilities and duties to our children as their parents to raise them, instill Christian value, and do everything we know how to bring our children to Christ2024-03-2157 min
The Housetop#91 - Ephesians, Part 16, "The Great Mystery of Marriage"We've lost all Christian conviction about covenant because blood covenant is not appropriately taught from the pulpit. We need to understand, in the Christian home, that we are first submitted to Jesus Christ through a blood covenant. Then also, through a blood covenant, we are connected to our spouse.
Both of these relationships are nurtured through communication. When we keep our hearts soft before the Lord, we can keep our relationships intact. Marriage vows should not be taken flippantly.
Why doesn't our Christianity translate into good relationships? If there's any place the l...2024-03-141h 04
The Housetop#90 - Ephesians, Part 15, "Walking - Part 2"Come to Christ, come through the cross, die to who you were, get a new life, be born again, and then the Spirit of Christ will reside in your heart and the Spirit of grace will lift you up in a higher law than sin and death. It’s called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
We are under a higher law. He didn’t lower it. He raised it above human reach. He put it out of the capacity of human ability and in divine ability. The Spirit of grace is there to...2024-03-091h 00
The Housetop#89 - Ephesians, Part 14, "Walking - Part 1"The book of Ephesians is filled with the word walk. Our walk is our manner of life. It is the way we live.
We are to walk worthy of the calling. There should be a lifestyle change that aligns to what God has called us to. It is not that we walk in a rigidity of commandment or a lifestyle cleanup, but we are to walk in the love of God.
The gospel should affect the way we live our lives. This is the new birth as God the Creator makes us new...2024-03-0358 min
The Housetop#88 - Ephesians, Part 13, "New Testament Ministry Pattern"Every one of us in Christ has been given a measure of Christ’s gifts. Jesus Christ Himself gifted men to be gifts to men. These ministry gifts are to equip the ministry; however, they are the biggest things tradition stole from everyone.
This demonic thief of tradition steals the priesthood of every believer. It is a grief that we have taken these gifts and squeezed them down to one thing: Pastor. It is a detriment to the gospel that all the church be in the hands of pastors.
The par...2024-02-221h 03
The Housetop#87 - Ephesians, Part 12, "For This Cause - Part 2"There’s been a huge paradigm shift where God no longer dwells in temples made by men. He now dwells in men.
He's building Himself a house, and it’s those He has brought into the new birth and are being intertwined relationally in love. When we come together in that assembled love by the Spirit of God, we become a dwelling place for God. It is there God promises to manifest His presence.
God wants to do a mighty work in this new paradigm. He wants you to come to the mo...2024-02-1645 min
The Housetop#86 - Ephesians, Part 11, "For This Cause - Part 1"All throughout the history of the church, every revival has resulted from the Holy Spirit blasting through existing orthodoxy and disrupting the standards and norms that were in control.
We are in this sort of paradigm shift now.
The Holy Spirit is not looking to occupy a physical building. He is wanting to live in the hearts of men. God wants to live inside redeemed vessels. Immanuel in the heart of every soul. That’s the fullness of the gospel.
Currently there‘s a lack of experiential Christianity...2024-02-081h 00
The Housetop#85 - Ephesians, Part 10, "Chief Cornerstone"The building of God is not an organization of brick and mortar. It is a living organism, filled with people who are filled with God’s praises, with Jesus Christ as the Chief Cornerstone. However, the builders have rejected God’s design and the Chief Cornerstone.
God wanted the New Testament church to be structured relationally, not bureaucratically. Instead of the relational church God intended, many worship in an old paradigm, trying to mimic the Old Testament temple. We must start anew in the true new paradigm, where we are the temple of God.
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The Housetop#84 - Ephesians, Part 9, "Grace and Works"Grace is the divine influence upon the heart reflected in the life. It is powerful when God’s grace comes, and there’s a manifestion of it in the life. Many argue that it is either grace or works, but it is actually grace and works. We are not saved by good works, but we are kept by them.
Don’t pervert grace by saying you can live however you want to now and still be saved. It’s a false doctrine. We are predestined to reflect God’s glory on earth and do a good work. He...2024-01-1356 min
The Housetop#83 - Ephesians, Part 8, "Dead in Sin or Dead to Sin"Christ didn’t die so we would keep sinning; He died so we could die with Him. But instead of being dead to sin, we sit in church dead in our sins.
There are many religious seekers of Christ who are still dying in their sins. We have all but eradicated the holiness of God, twisting His glory and truth. Misrepresenting God, we have exalted a humanistic view of His love and seared our conscience towards sin.
We must get our blinders off and look soberly at our sin before a holy...2024-01-0756 min
The Housetop#82 - Ephesians, Part 7, "Fullness"There are so many people who have had real encounters with God who have never known the fullness of Jesus Christ in their life. God wants to change you with His fullness inside of you. We are His Church, His Body, the fullness of Him who fills all things. Jesus Christ was filled with grace and truth, and He wants you as full as He is.
We need the fullness today. Why aren’t we pressing in to see the Church filled with the Holy Spirit? A spirit of slumber has rested on the churches. The gosp...2023-12-2259 min
The Housetop#81 - Ephesians, Part 6, "That You Might Know"When the eyes of the understanding become enlightened, it means we are able to look at things with our spiritual eyes wide opened. As the knowledge of God revolves in the head, it drops down into the spirit and becomes understanding. The heart sees something that is way deeper than the mind is able to.
In Ephesians, Paul prays for the spirit of understanding in three areas: The hope of His calling, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us who bel...2023-12-1559 min
The Housetop#80 - Ephesians, Part 5, "Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation"Paul prayed for a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ Jesus. The spirit of wisdom implies a continual unfolding of abiding, residing, and living wisdom. This is something we are missing in the church today.
We have overemphasized the knowledge of the cross without connecting with the brokenness that comes from the cross. We have heads full of cognitive transfer, but this knowledge has not dropped into the spirit or changed the hearts of men.
We are transferring cognitive knowledge instead of enlarging on revelation. Because of this, t...2023-12-081h 01
The Housetop#79 - Ephesians, Part 4, "The Mystery Revealed"In this last age, there’s a revealing of the mystery that has been hidden throughout all the ages. The mystery is that Jews and Gentiles would worship Jesus at the same alter of the cross. God is gathering everything together into one through Christ Jesus and reconciling the world to Himself by the blood of Jesus Christ and making peace as the two become one, with no division in the heart or head.
We all come in through the blood of the cross and worship God in the Kingdom come. Regardless of your background, all th...2023-12-011h 12
The Housetop#78 - Ephesians, Part 3, "Redemption"Redemption means to liberate someone and set them free at a purchase price. We were captive and bound to demonic forces that held us to sin. But Christ paid the ransom fully; and through His blood, we have redemption.
To understand what it cost God to forgive you, we must first understand the righteous requirements of the law and power of the blood.
There’s redemption through the blood of Christ according to the riches of God’s grace. But to get this grace, you must go through the blood. The redemption...2023-11-2458 min
The Housetop#77 - Ephesians, Part 2, "Accepted in the Beloved"One of the greatest needs we have is acceptance. We all have experienced the pain of rejection; and if anyone understands the ramifications of rejection, it is Jesus.
Even when the whole world has rejected us, we have the ability to be accepted by God. This divine acceptance is the power of God working inside the life of a person, bringing joy unspeakable that is full of glory.
It is by grace we are accepted in the Beloved. Acceptance from God is based on what He has done for us through the b...2023-11-1658 min
The Housetop#76 - Ephesians, Part 1, "Chosen in Him"To be adopted as a child of God means our earthly life is dead with Christ on the cross. Now it is alive with God in Him.
I am in Him, and He is in me. Like marriage, the two have become one. A oneness has been established. Everything of mine belongs to God, and everything that God has belongs to me. That’s how covenant works.
To be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law. But a righteousness through faith. It's not what I have a...2023-11-091h 11
The Housetop#75 - Parable of the Sower, Part 4, "Fruit"When a seed is sown into good ground, the ground receives the seed, and it will bear fruit. God commands fruit from those He redeems. We are to bear fruit unto God worthy of repentance.
Can you imagine the revival that would happen overnight if every believer were bearing fruit 30, 60, or 90-fold?
We must ask ourselves: Do I have a fruitful life, bearing fruit for God? Is there anything my life is producing with eternal value? Where is the fruit of souls?2023-09-071h 04
The Housetop#74 - Parable of the Sower, Part 3, "Thorns"Seeds sown among the thorns represent the one who becomes unfruitful because the Word is choked out by the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts or desires for other things.
The entire Western Church is littered with thorns. We are so overburdened and focused on the temporal that we have lost thought of the Kingdom of God. Asleep to the Kingdom but awake to the things of the world.
Have we allowed the thorns to make us fruitless?2023-09-0151 min
The Housetop#73 - Parable of the Sower, Part 2, "The Wayside and Stoney Hearts"In the Parable of the Sower, everyone was receiving the Word, but only one bore fruit. There are all types of relationships to the Word of God, but not all will bear fruit or have eternal life with Jesus.
The seed that fell along the wayside represents those who lack anointing. Their relationship is so loose with God the devil has free reign and access to their hearts, even while the Word is being preached. Immediately the enemy takes the seed away. The wayside is near the Way, running parallel to the Way, but...2023-08-2456 min
The Housetop#72 - Parable of the Sower, Part 1, "Understanding Parables and The Sower"The first steps to understanding the mysteries of the Kingdom of God is to get alone with Jesus. We need revelation. God wants to reveal Himself to us. When we begin to pursue Jesus on our own, and really see to understand, the eyes of our understanding will opened. This is the key to the new birth.
The ministry of the sower is to sow the Word of God. This duty requires a preparing of the soil by breaking up fallow ground. The sower must be diligent to not waste precious seed, but to plant in good soil...2023-08-191h 00
The Housetop#71 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 9, "James: A Summary of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"James is a fitting end to this teaching on Wisdom’s Seven Pillars. Many principles of the paradoxes of Jesus are repeated, and there's a common thread running throughout the book that fits perfectly to this study.
The world thinks differently than the Kingdom of God. We need so much wisdom from the cross to navigate through all the trials that are hitting us because the adulterous woman is calling out to the people of God, “Come eat at my table.”
We need the wisdom of God to navigate through the trials of...2023-07-181h 02
The Housetop#70 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 8, "The Greater Blessing"The final paradoxical teaching of Jesus is that it's better to give than to receive.
The heart of the world's value system has its roots in money. There's an insatiable desire to go after riches. Because of this, money typically is the first thing that comes to mind when we hear the word blessing.
But grace tells us to withdrawal from such thinking and deny worldly gain. We have to correct our thinking on what true blessing is in the Kingdom of God.
It is more blessed to give than to receive. Instead of consuming on our own lusts, let's...2023-07-0646 min
The Housetop#69 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 7, "Humble or Humiliated"Jesus said, "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
The exaltation of man is a contagious spirit. Exalt means to elevate yourself, rise up, and lift yourself up.
We either fall on Christ and become humbled, broken vessels, or we rise up in pride, live our lives full of arrogance, and we end up humiliated for eternity.2023-07-0154 min
The Housetop#68 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 6, "The First Will Be Last"Everyone is striving to be number one. Many want to be first - first in rank, influence, honor, and succession of anything or person. People crave this position and prosperity. But Jesus said the first will be last and the last first. We need to sell out and learn more about this paradoxical teaching of Jesus.2023-06-2348 min
The Housetop#67 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 5, "To Be Great, Be Childlike"The flesh desires greatness. But Jesus says unless we humble ourselves, be converted by God’s Word, and become like a little child, we cannot see the kingdom of God.
We must come through the new birth, being born again by the Word of God, and continue in this dependency.
Do you have the testimony of going back to childhood? Learning how to walk, talk, think, act, and conduct yourself like Jesus. The greatest people in the kingdom of God are childlike, living in full dependency on God, where God...2023-06-1751 min
The Housetop#66 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 4, "Chiefs or Servants"The third pillar of wisdom is: To be great, be a waiter, a minister. To be first, become a slave.
The will of God is that every person who names the name of Christ will enter the fellowship of His suffering. It is a test in the Christian walk and the point so many turn away or build an alternative theology because there is no doctrine of suffering in the Christian community any longer.
Our soul says it doesn’t want to live like Jesus in this matter. "I don’t want to serve. I want to be f...2023-06-0853 min
The Housetop#65 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 3, "Hate Your Life for Eternal Life"As a disciple of Christ, you are called to forsake everything in this world and follow Christ without compromise. The more you say to God, in a humble and contrite spirit, “God, I’m a pilgrim passing through, and I don’t belong here,” the Lord will draw near, and His life will attach to your life. You will find eternal life in that separation from this world.
The cross of Jesus Christ is a severing tool that will separate you from this world and anything that is sold out to it. When you take up the cross...2023-06-0147 min
The Housetop#64 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 2, "Love it, Lose it"The first of the seven pillars of wisdom is the paradoxical teaching of Jesus: If you love your life, you're going to lose it.
A seed must fall to the ground and die in order to bear fruit. We too must first descend to a lower place through humility and die to self. It's a co-crucifixion with Christ.
Many people, sincere in their religion and in their church attendance, are in danger of hell. Not because of an overtly evil lifestyle. But because they love their own life too much to lay it down. Loving...2023-05-2546 min
The Housetop#63 - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Part 1, “Wisdom’s Two Houses”There's a wisdom from God and a wisdom from this world. Both are putting out a call, inviting you to sit at their table and learn.
We must distinguish between God's wisdom and the world's wisdom. God's wisdom is foolishness to the world, whereas the world's wisdom is foolishness to God.
The wisdom of God is the cross of Jesus Christ. God cut covenant with us at the cross of Christ; and we enter that covenant by faith.
The wisdom of the world is putt...2023-05-1154 min
The Housetop#62 - The Gifts of The Spirit, Part 6, "The More Excellent Way"God wants us to flow in the gifts of the Spirit; and we are to covet earnestly the best gifts. We should have a burning desire for this. But in that zeal, if we lose our love for Jesus, what did we accomplish?
The gifts of the Spirit are about us working with God. If we get so enamored with how God is using us, then we fall in love with our abilities and not the Giver of the gift. It is easy to lose sight of the miracle worker and get enamored with the m...2023-05-041h 01
The Housetop#61 - The Gifts of The Spirit, Part 5, "The Gifts of Utterance"In 1 Corinthians chapter 12 there are nine gifts of the Spirit listed. They can be put into three groups of three: The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance. In this session we discuss The Gifts of Utterance, comprised of Prophecy, Tongues, and The Interpretation of Tongues.
There is much disagreement surrounding the gifts of the Spirit in our generation. Scripture tells us to zealously burn with desire for the best gifts. We are to stir up the gifts that are in us and encourage others to do the same. But to...2023-04-271h 01
The Housetop#60 - The Gifts of The Spirit, Part 4, "The Power Gifts"The nine gifts of the Spirit can be divided into three separate groups: The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance. The second group, The Power Gifts, is comprised of Faith, Healings, and Miracles.
People are hungry to see the genuine power of God.
We should see an increase in the power of God in our generation, but instead we are seeing it dimensioned. This is largely due to false doctrine and unbelief. We are plagued with unbelief in this hour. It is running rampant, even...2023-04-2058 min
The Housetop#59 - The Gifts of The Spirit, Part 3, "The Revelatory Gifts"We want to see a great reviving of the gifts of the Spirit in our generation.
The gifts are a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, given to each member within the interconnected Body for the profit of all. These nine gifts can be broken into three separate groups: The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance.
In this teaching, The Revelatory Gifts are discussed, which are: The Word of Wisdom, The Word of Knowledge, and The Discerning of spirits.
Available to us is the full g...2023-04-1355 min
The Housetop#58 - The Gifts of The Spirit, Part 2, "Body Builders"We are to let all things be done for edification. Edification is the building of the house of God. There are two purposes to edification: 1.) It is meant to build up and strengthen each member of the Body. 2.) It is meant to add to the Body of Christ by bringing new people in. Both call for the gifts of the Spirit to be
in full operation.
God gave gifts to men to equip the saints for the work of the ministry to build up the Body of Christ. There are diversities of gifts but it is God...2023-04-0759 min
The Housetop#57 - The Gifts of The Spirit, Part 1, "Baptism Into His Body"By one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body – the Body of Christ. To function as the Bible teaches the Body of Christ to function, we need a shift in our thinking. We are to be joined to one another and immersed into relationship. This requires a burial to self as we are interconnected and intertwined. We are dependent on one another to fitly frame together until the whole Body manifests Christ.
The giftings of the Sprit are all to accomplish one thing: The work of God. The work of God is the making of discip...2023-03-311h 00
The Housetop#56 - Discernment - "Judging Righteously"We are faced with a flood of lies, even coming across the pulpit. In order to not be deceived, we must guard against receiving from the wrong people. Making it a habitual practice to vigorously exercise our discernment will develop our senses and help us grow in our ability to differentiate between what is true and false.
Without a relationship with the Word of God, we are set up for deception. Building a belief system around the authority of the Word of God will develop our skills of perception. The Word of God must be what...2023-03-241h 04
The Housetop#55 - Pulling Down Strongholds, Part 8, "How To Keep Your Deliverance: Creative Worship"Do you want to keep your deliverance? Let the Creator make you creative in worship.
God wants us to come to the place in our recreation where He, as our Creator, teaches us to be creative. We can release creativity in all of the five spiritual disciplines: prayer, bible study, fellowship, worship, and witnessing.
God is looking for true worshipers who worship in spirit and truth. Become a powerful worshiper as you break off the traditional shackles and molds and let the creativity of God govern.
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The Housetop#54 - Pulling Down Strongholds, Part 7, "The Cure: The Cross of Jesus Christ"Strongholds give place to demons who want to wage war by attacking the weaknesses in our lives and tormenting our walk with Christ. We need to demolish these strongholds and bring them to where they are useless for any demonic activity.
Deliverance is found at the cross of Jesus Christ. It is the power of God for your deliverance. It is the power of God unto salvation. It is the power of God that will heal you.
The cross of Jesus Christ is the power of God to a f...2023-03-1056 min
The Housetop#53 - Pulling Down Strongholds, Part 6, "Strongmen Part 2, Religious Demons"Just because you are a religious person does not mean you cannot be demonized.
We are in a great falling away. The devil has opened his mouth and released a flood of lies upon the earth. This deception is even within the church. An oversimplistic way to Christianity is being offered up that’s not biblical. People are attempting to enter through a door other than the cross.
Without signs of repentance, fruits unto holiness, a new birth, or a new creature, people are saying, “I'm saved, and I'm going to heaven in the end.” This i...2023-03-041h 09
The Housetop#52 - Pulling Down Strongholds, Part 5, "Strongmen Part 1"Strongmen are demon spirits that literally torment the people of God.
Jesus cast demons out with His word, and likewise, the Word of God will drive demons out of our lives. That’s why it is so important to have a strong relationship with the Word of God. The more we saturate our heart and mind in God's Word, the less room a demon has to occupy our life. The Word of God is how we break though strongholds and the torment these demons can bring.
There are 4 realms of demons: Physical, soulish (mental/emotional), mo...2023-02-231h 14
The Housetop#51 - Pulling Down Strongholds, Part 4, "Cast Out Devils with His Word"We have allowed demonization to occupy people all over our churches, and we have done nothing to drive the devil out.
The thief has come to steal, kill, and destroy. Sickness, disease, infirmity, and even demon possession is incipient death. Left uncured it will kill you.
As a liar, the thief is desiring to bring you into bondage through demonic arguments in your mind undermining what God has said.
The antidote is the Word of God.
We cast out devils the same way the Lord did it – with His Word of power. The greatest strength on deliverance is the Bible it...2023-02-171h 02
The Housetop#50 - Pulling Down Strongholds, Part 3, "Imaginations"When God gives someone truth and they refuse to obey, He gives them over to blindness in their heart and mind. Darkness on the imagination is the first move of the judgment of God. This volatile land is where demonic reasonings and arguments exalt themselves in our mind and come against what we know about God.
Hordes of demons attack the mind. The devil does not want us to think the way God thinks. Our victory in Christianity is found in our mind as we cast down these warped imaginations and we bring every...2023-02-091h 03
The Housetop#49 - Pulling Down Strongholds, Part 2, "Demonic Arguments"You are in a war. If you don’t realize that, you are beat already. Many Christians wrongly believe they are immune from the onslaughts of the devil. Because of this, we see so little of the casting out of devils that Jesus did and even told us was part of our ministry.
There is an enemy of your soul who hates God and the image of Jesus Christ in your life. He wants to mar this image and make you blaspheme God by derailing your thinking and emotions. The devil gains victory in vulnerable areas he finds in your mi...2023-02-021h 03
The Housetop#48 - Pulling Down Strongholds, Part 1, "Introduction in the Weapons of our Warfare"Christian warfare is very real. God wants to restore the image of God in us; and once we begin to bear the image of Christ, everything in hell attacks.
We are told to put on the full armor of God to have victory. But the victory over the devil is not merely external. The real freedom starts inside and works outward. We need to get the living Word of God inside of us until it saturates our system and Christ begins to abide in us. There's liberty in Jesus. He is the truth, and the truth will set us free.
Ma...2023-01-261h 07
The Housetop#47 - First and Second Adam, "Earthly Man vs. Heavenly Man"When the First Adam sinned, his breath kept going but his spirit died. This created an expiration date on the house of the soul, his physical body.
The First Adam was a man of the earth, and we are all born into this realm. We bear the image of the earthly and want the things of the earth. Apart from Christ, we have spiritual death inside and await the eventual physical death, followed by the eternal judgment of the soul.
While the First Adam was a fallen creature doomed, the Second Adam, Jesus, was a...2023-01-191h 05
The Housetop#46 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 10, "Straight Gate: Beware of False Prophets"False prophets have infiltrated our churches. There are wolves in sheep's clothing of a lying gospel with a lying grace. Everything is about our prosperity, happiness, breakthrough, and destiny. We are a generation filled with lies. We have lost our collective minds in Christianity because we have lost the way. We are following God based on what He can do for us, instead of what we can do for Him.
The separated life God wants for us isn’t popular today. We have learned to incorporate worldliness into Christianity and feel good about it. But...2023-01-121h 11
The Housetop#45 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 9, "Ask, Seek, Knock and The Golden Rule"- Ask: He who asks believing will receive.
Scripture tells us when we make petition to God and believe, we will receive what we are asking for. But we are in an unbelieving generation with multitudes of people claiming to practice Christianity, yet having no faith in God or the Word of God.
People in every religion and denomination pray, but no one expects answers. Maybe we aren’t receiving because we don’t have faith. Science, pride, human reasoning, lack of experience, unbelief, and false doctrine may be some...2023-01-051h 04
The Housetop#44 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 8, "Dogs and Hogs"Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”
When the teachings of God are taken to a person who is in the category of a dog or hog, they will turn around with your own words and rend you.
Dogs and hogs can refer to moral depravity to the upmost and those deemed unclean. They are those who are contentious, of an impure mind, with a disregard for others, lacking modesty and morality. Anyon...2022-12-1559 min
The Housetop#43 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 7, "Judge Not"Matthew 7: 1-5 is so misunderstood. If there has ever been a phrase hijacked by the world and the devil himself, it is “Judge not.” Two words have never been taken so out of context on a regular basis than these words right here. The world’s #1 rule is “Judge not,” but this is a twisting of Jesus’ words.
Jesus didn’t take judgement away. Rather, He clarified what it meant and how we should do it: 1.) We are not to judge based on our own opinions, 2.) we are not to judge others for a sin we are unrepentant of, 3...2022-12-081h 06
The Housetop#42 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 6, "Seek First the Kingdom of God"As one of the biggest covetous and idolatrous societies, America is full of those who are always wanting more. However, the greatest frustration to the grace of God is when we try to have our heaven and our world too. We cannot intermingle the two. We must establish one or the other. There must be a significant paradigm shift in our thinking and allegiances to what we are truly loyal to, what truly is our Lord and Savior, and what truly is the treasure of our own heart.
When we get cumbered with worrisome activity and busyness, we can forfeit...2022-12-0156 min
The Housetop#41 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 5, "Treasure"We are told to store up for ourselves treasures in heaven instead treasures on earth, but the problem is we love and seek after temporal earthly treasures. Have we missed true riches? Are we blinded by the gods of this world and lied to by the deceitfulness of earthly riches?
We will continue to pour everything we have into the gods of this world until we get a new heart and a new spirit.
When the kingdom of God is revealed to us, the Lord Jesus Christ sets us free and causes a shift in...2022-11-181h 07
The Housetop#40 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 4, "The Secret Devotions"Alms, Prayer, and Fasting are the 3 Secret Devotions of the Christian’s life. These devotions are a matter of Christian fact – not “if” we do them, but “when” we do them. In this episode, we are challenged to do these devotions humbly and privately, not sounding the trumpet in self-glorification. When done this way, we are storing up treasures in heaven and there will be a divine move of God in the open.2022-11-101h 00
The Housetop#39 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 3, "Exceeding Righteousness Continued"We are warned in Scripture that a Last Day’s false teacher will creep in unawares and pervert grace to lasciviousness. This perversion of grace has permeated our society and churches today. Grace has been turned into the justification for all manner of sin and evil one can think of.
It is believed by a multitude that salvation is a futuristic thing, where one can live like the world all their life and in the end go to heaven anyway. There are so many deceived minds who think they are on their way to he...2022-11-031h 01
The Housetop#38 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 2, "Exceeding Righteousness"Presumptuous grace is believing the normal Christian life is one of defeat. But believing we have to continue in our sins is a lie that does not agree with what the power of God has done for us. There are many sincere, devout people who have been lied to and do not realize there is liberty available in Christ to free us from the bondage of sin. To flippantly continue in sin is a perversion of the grace of God.
Sin doesn’t have to have dominion over you. God did not send His Son for you to...2022-10-281h 02
The Housetop#37 - Sermon on the Mount, Part 1, "DNA of the New Birth"Matthew 5-7 is the teaching of our King, Jesus Christ, beginning a whole new covenant with mankind.
The 9 blessings, often called the beatitudes, taught by Jesus in Matthew 5-7 are the characteristics of the sons and daughters of God. These beatitudes are the DNA of the new birth as we become partakers of the divine nature of God.
God, our Father, puts His seed in us and births something very holy. In the new birth, we begin to see the character of God build inside, and instead of walking in the pride and lusts of our own heart, we take...2022-10-201h 03
The Housetop#36 - Suffering Loss, Godly Sorrow, Part 6, "Restoring the Soul"The 23rd Psalm is a wonderful Psalm about the restoration of our soul available in our good shepherd, Jesus Christ, so we don’t fall into a worldly grief.
There are going to be some days that aren't so pleasant in the Christian journey. When you've suffered loss, there’s a void. But there’s also the real power of God to bring your mind back to the fact that the Lord is your shepherd. He restores as He causes your soul to return to the origin of health, of wellness, and of wellbeing.
The restoration of your soul, mind, emotio...2022-09-2343 min
The Housetop#35 - Suffering Loss, Godly Sorrow, Part 5, "Transition"If a worldly sorrow has set in and is working death in you, repentance from that worldly sorrow could transition your mind to the mind of Christ. Your spirit, your mind, and your emotions could be healed, and you could be made well.
In this session, we look at the sequence of events following Prophet Nathan’s confrontation of King David’s sin and prophesy of his son’s death. What follows is a beautiful picture of how to think correctly and handle grief well.
King David had a tremendous time of remorse and grief as he...2022-09-1547 min
The Housetop#34 - Suffering Loss, Godly Sorrow, Part 4, "Choose or Refuse"Throughout our entire Christian walk, it is pertinent we continue to put on the mind of Christ, be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and change our thought patterns. This is repentance. It is the understanding that our minds need to change in order to have faith.
If not dealt with properly, the trauma that comes with the grief can disrupt the natural patterns of our brain. Prolonged distress that has no end is problematic. The side effects of prolonged stress can create every kind of malady in your body that you can imagine. But the...2022-09-0853 min
The Housetop#33 - Suffering Loss, Godly Sorrow, Part 3, "Comfort Ye My People"Isaiah 40:1-8
Grief, whether it’s godly or worldly, has some uncontrollable moments because of a great loss. The bottom line is that somewhere in there we can regain faculty. We can begin to turn this around, to change it, to repent, to change our thinking. Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation.
There are many people who suffered loss and never found their way into a godly sorrow. The worldly sorrow moves God out of your grief. You stay sad, angry, depressed, hurt, and finally death has its way in you.
But when we a...2022-09-0156 min
The Housetop#32 - Suffering Loss, Godly Sorrow, Part 2, "Spiritual Loss Continued"Continuing Spiritual Loss, we discuss the belief that one cannot lose their soul. This belief has permeated our society and the religious cultures today.
In Matthew 10:5-7 we see God sent Jesus onto the scene specifically to talk to His covenant people who were lost.
“Lost,” means to destroy fully, to perish, to die, and to render useless. There are people very religious who are lost. This is something the modern thinker cannot wrap their brain around because of the false prophets and the false doctrines we will call once-saved-always-saved and eternal security. Many people belie...2022-08-251h 03
The Housetop#31 - Suffering Loss, Godly Sorrow, Part 1, "Spiritual Loss"The key verse for this study is 2 Corinthians 7:8-11
Most people have never properly settled the major traumas of their lives and the biggest traumatic episodes have never been healed.
Scripture can heal anything out there. The Word of God has provided healing through the blood of Christ.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - God has given us a great gift that after trauma, we have stress. When we are hit with a trauma, our bodies begin to produce huge amounts of adrenal and other hormones and chemicals to help us cope and deal with stress. What makes PTSD a disorder...2022-08-191h 08
The Housetop#30 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 10, "The Marriage Vows"Marriage is a powerful proclamation. We pledge before God and witnesses, “Unto death do us part.” We promise on our very life to do all that’s in the covenant vows; and it’s not to be taken lightly.
We have failed in traditional churches and in relationships because we have had flimsy foundations and flimsy vows.
If our marriage doesn’t revolve around Christ Himself, how can we be called Christian? We need to make sure we are not just participating in religious practices. The first thing we have to be able to do as a Chris...2022-08-1842 min
The Housetop#29 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 9, "The Covenant of Marriage"In marriage, you become one with the person you enter the marriage covenant with. The two become one. It’s miraculous and supernatural.
God built you to have one partner in your lifetime; but we must begin with a right understanding of the gravity of blood covenant.
“Till death do you part,” is you promising on your own life that you will not leave this person. You are vowing before God and witnesses in a very spiritual way that you will never break it off with this person.
The spiritual intimacy of the marriage covenant is very sacred and holy, and it...2022-08-061h 01
The Housetop#28 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 8, "Work"We were made for productivity, and God has redeemed us for good work. Part of this good work is when the character of God comes out of us because of the New Birth. Reflecting His glory and shining the light of Jesus is a good work.
God has put you in a place, set boundaries, and given you something to do. If you understand that, you will be productive all your life with fun, life-giving productivity.
Whatever your occupation may be, you need to let your life be surrendered to the Lordship of Christ. As...2022-07-281h 05
The Housetop#27 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 7, "Our Physical Bodies"Can we vow to our spouse that we will keep ourselves free from all vice and addictive behavior? It is such a negligence if we take marriage vows today and leave this out.
Made in the image of God, man is a triune being: spirt, soul, and body. There is an issue when people stop taking care their whole person. It is crucial within marriage that we maintain what God has given us and not neglect to take care of our spirit, soul, and body.
We need to understand that in Christianity people are God’s d...2022-07-211h 05
The Housetop#26 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 6, "Fruitful and Multiply"God wanted man to be fruitful and multiply to fill the earth with His glory. Unless we bring our children into the new birth, we are failing to fill the earth with God’s image.
We must see that our duty in the Christian home is not to birth flesh and blood but to birth the spirit of God into our children. If we don’t do that, we fail. We must do everything we can to see our children brought to the new birth.
We need to get our homes and families in divine order. When parents get their marr...2022-07-141h 16
The Housetop#25 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 5, "Male and Female"The subject of male a female is a hot topic right now in the press. A biblical perspective of this topic is fitting for such a time as this. God invented marriage because He wanted one man and one woman to live together in one lifetime with Him right in their midst reflecting His glory through them.
God created us male and female, both in His image. The same, yet also different spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. We have fallen from this ideal, but the problem is not with God’s design. The problem is in the de...2022-07-071h 20
The Housetop#24 - The Creation of Marrige, Part 4, "Divine Order"Mankind’s place in God’s creation is for us to have dominion over the works of His hands. Dominion means to tread down, prevail, and rule over. Male and female both have a God-given dominion nature. If you apply this in life, it serves you well in work. This is what makes us have drive and strength.
But we are not to direct this dominion towards one another. The downfall of many homes is when people try to get another to do what they want by manipulation, force, or fear.
...2022-06-301h 04
The Housetop#23 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 3, "The Image of God"Man was created in God’s image as the pinnacle of God’s creation. We were made to stand before God, mirror Him, and reflect His image and glory. We were designed to worship and for everything from God to reflect out of us.
The devil loathes the image of God and will do anything he can to mar it. Because we stand in the image of God, the devil’s wrath is turned towards us. He will do anything he can to stop us from reflecting the image and glory of God.
In the early...2022-06-231h 02
The Housetop#22 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 2, "Let There Be Light"Marriage is a created entity of God. If we are going to talk about the creation of marriage, we need to start at creation. We have to build our case for creation so we can see the power of God in the marriage covenant.
By faith we believe that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things we see were made by things that do not appear. The things we see were spoken into existence by the Word of God.
The sun, moon, and stars were created on Day 4 of...2022-06-2255 min
The Housetop#21 - The Creation of Marriage, Part 1, "The Beginning of the Creation of God"God invented marriage. It was created by God and for God. Marriage belongs to God; and the Word of God defines it. It is the only place sexual intimacy is made holy.
There is a sexual perversion and breakdown of God-ordained marriage; and Christians are expected to accept it. As a culture, we have stepped far outside the perimeters God set for intimacy. What we are now seeing is the judgment of God.
We have no understanding of “covenant” in our generation. There needs to be a sobriety around marriage, and it shouldn’t be entered into...2022-06-091h 04
The Housetop#20 - Warfare Prayer, Part 8If we are not engaging in prayer, there will be a fainting in the heart of man. Many have fainted and are spiritless in this hour. It’s time to return to the Lord and get back in the battle.
Very few people engage in the true spirit of intercession, led by the Holy Spirit of God, reaching the heart of Christ.
People today are totally given to sight and human reason. Our logic is not coming from the Word of God. We are so caught up in what is seen we do not see the things which are unseen. And...2022-06-021h 09
The Housetop#19 - Warfare Prayer, Part 7“We need to pray and not faint.” (Luke 18:1) The word faint means to be utterly spiritless, wearied out, and exhausted.
Speaking mainly to the men right now, we are on-the-go constantly. The most vocal people in the churches today are women. Men are in silence. It is a travesty. It is a demonic attack on the speech of men. It’s time for men to step up. It’s time for men to find their voice. Many are spiritless, wearied, and exhausted. How can we watch and pray if we are weary and exhausted?
When the Son of man comes, will He fi...2022-05-261h 02
The Housetop#18 - Warfare Prayer, Part 6We have been discussing how to build a spirit of prayer and have such a prayer agreement among us that God hears our prayer and we start to see great things. We need to have such a communion with God that the Spirt of God shows us the heart of God.
If we are willing to hear, He wants to show us the very throne room of God. If we are willing to enter His presence and stay there, He will show us what is going on in heaven and we can pray for it to come down to earth.
As...2022-05-201h 01
The Housetop#17 - Warfare Prayer, Part 5It’s our duty as Christians to restrain the advancement of the antichrist spirit and hinder his every work. The way we do that is through the explosive power of prayer. We need to move prayer back to the forefront of our worship service.
There are a multitude of people who have grown up in church but still don’t know what praying really means. We don’t know how to fight. The army of Christ is disorganized, undisciplined, and unable to fight. We don’t ask to learn. We take coldness in prayer as the acceptable norm.
It’s time we enga...2022-05-121h 01
The Housetop#16 - Warfare Prayer, Part 4The need of the hour is to bring prayer to the centerpiece and focal of our worship. Prayer needs to become our worship, where we are seated before God and waiting on Him, instead of being overly focused on entertainment.
We need to learn how to pray.
Every promise of God in the New Testament is predicated on us being found in Christ. The promises of God are absolute when we are in Christ. We have to understand the same spirit that dwelt in Christ, The Anointed, is now dwelling in us.
Too often our prayers are unanswered because we...2022-05-051h 06
The Housetop#14 - Warfare Prayer, Part 2With current events, there’s a feeling of hopelessness as we question, “What can we do?”
The need in this hour is for us to go straight to the Supreme Judge of all the earth, begin to pray His will, and watch God work from heaven.
Right now, as we occupy until He comes, our occupation should be Warfare Prayer – powerful intercessions that really begin to move the hand of God.
There’s an intense need for precision praying, powerful praying, anointed praying, and bold praying that will move heaven. We will see the hand of God like never before.
The antichrist...2022-05-051h 05
The Housetop#15 - Warfare Prayer, Part 3While we are waiting to be gathered up to the Lord Jesus, we are privileged to gather together in prayer and see God move.
There’s power in the praises and prayers of the people of God when we pray His Word effectively. If we could only understand this power that’s almost nearly untapped.
We have to change our thinking about prayer. Prayer is how we go into the political realm, and not just cast a vote, but petition the Most High God to move the situation. It’s called Warfare Prayer.
We have been given the duty to restrain...2022-04-281h 03
The Housetop#13 - Warfare Prayer, Part 1Who taught you to pray? Who taught you how to storm heaven or make intercession?
What is the Christian duty right now in prayer? How are we to pray?
Join us as we dig into 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2 to understand how “gathering together” (episynagōgē, G1997) is what God is calling us to in this hour.
The duty of the church is the gathering together of the saints in one accord in prayer. One of the greatest promises on this side of the cross to the saved person is Matthew 18:20, when two or three gather together in the name of Jesus, He is in o...2022-04-0859 min
The Housetop#12 - Biblical Church, Part 12The structural thinking of how we do church is shifting worldwide. It’s time to repent and change the thinking of men. The Lord is calling us to transition, leave the structure, and get into a right paradigm. We need to seek out the anointing to be a relational person. Walk out our faith with other people in a close setting, in the light of fellowship, with relational transparency.
Christ is coming back, and He’s got people in a religious system He does not want them in. He’s saying, “Come out of her My people.” We are trying to get int...2022-04-0141 min
The Housetop#11 - Biblical Church, Part 11After a short recap of what we have learned so far in this Biblical Church study, Teryl begins this episode with a breakdown of our New Testament mission in this hour.
Like Titus, we need to set in order the things that are lacking. We need to set things to the New Testament order. Our mission is to retrieve people back from the traditional, non-biblical structure and set the apostolic order. We need to retrieve and feed the lost sheep of the church.
Getting back to relationship, the beauty of home church is when we build relational adhesion and there’s...2022-03-241h 02
The Housetop#10 - Biblical Church, Part 10, "Evangelism and Church Planting"Chapter 13
What was Jesus' method of evangelism and how do we take part in it today?
We are co-laborers together with Christ in the ministry of the harvest - the gathering of souls for the kingdom of God. But many of us fail to share our faith for many reasons.
Some have tried in the past and felt fruitless and unproductive. Feeling discouraged, many have lost heart.
Another reason is we have watched the one-man show for so long in traditional churches that we have all learned to sit down, be quiet, and listen. There are many good, useful laborers...2022-03-1059 min
The Housetop#9 - Biblical Church, Part 9Is traditional church biblical? Have we been cheated by the traditions of men? Join us as Teryl Hebert teaches through his book, Biblical Church. The book can be read for free at our site: https://housechurchesusa.com/books/2022-03-0459 min
The Housetop#8 - Biblical Church, Part 8Is traditional church biblical? Have we been cheated by the traditions of men? Join us as Teryl Hebert teaches through his book, Biblical Church. The book can be read for free at our site: https://housechurchesusa.com/books/2022-02-2555 min
The Housetop#7 - Biblical Church, Part 7Is traditional church biblical? Have we been cheated by the traditions of men? Join us as Teryl Hebert teaches through his book, Biblical Church. The book can be read for free at our site: https://housechurchesusa.com/books/2022-02-181h 01
The Housetop#6 - Biblical Church, Part 6Is traditional church biblical? Have we been cheated by the traditions of men? Join us as Teryl Hebert teaches through his book, Biblical Church. The book can be read for free at our site: https://housechurchesusa.com/books/2022-02-101h 01
The Housetop#5 - Biblical Church, Part 5Is traditional church biblical? Have we been cheated by the traditions of men? Join us as Teryl Hebert teaches through his book, Biblical Church. The book can be read for free at our site: https://housechurchesusa.com/books/2022-02-031h 01
The Housetop#4 - Biblical Church, Part 4Is traditional church biblical? Have we been cheated by the traditions of men? Join us as Teryl Hebert teaches through his book, Biblical Church. The book can be read for free at our site: https://housechurchesusa.com/books/2022-01-271h 01
The Housetop#3 - Biblical Church, Part 3In this episode, we unveil the damnable heresies of our Christian traditions through exposing the foundational beliefs of Constantine, Augustine, Martin Luther, Roman Catholicism, John Calvin, and others.
If you are unaware of the beginnings of these traditional beliefs, do your faith a favor and listen to the history.
Embrace the true faith found only in Jesus Christ and not the deceptions of traditions.
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The Housetop#2 - Biblical Church, Part 2Is traditional church biblical? Have we been cheated by the traditions of men? Join us as Teryl Hebert teaches through his book, Biblical Church. The book can be read for free at our site: https://housechurchesusa.com/books/
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The Housetop#1 - Biblical Church, Part 1Is traditional church biblical? Have we been cheated by the traditions of men? Join us as Teryl Hebert teaches through his book, Biblical Church. The book can be read for free at our site: https://housechurchesusa.com/books/
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