JOEL 2 GENERATION PODCAST

ROCK stands for "Releasers of Christ's Kingdom - what is OUR vision?

The Ministry of Jesus during His time on the earth (1.0), the way the Church carried on His ministry after His Ascension in the Book of Acts AND also in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th centuries (2.0). And finally what about us today (3.0). If you are a Cessationist (believing the miraculous gifts ended), you have an impossible time maintaining that position after you hear what happened in the Church in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th centuries.

In the 2nd part of this message, we look at the 3 Stages of the spread of the Gospel as modeled in the Life and Ministry of Jesus and then in the Book of Acts. We also look at how the spread of the Gospel is related to the 3 Angelic Falls in the Old Testament.

In Part 1, we look at the 3 Angelic Falls described in Old Testament and how they affected mankind and the world. Additionally, we looked at the Kingdom Ministry of Jesus as the reversing of the effects of those 3 Angelic Falls.

Who is the Remnant in 2021? What characterizes the Remnant after 2020, almost a year into COVID? I don't believe the Remnant is an "elite group" - I believe that the Remnant in 2021 is simply the group of believers who actually have faith going forward!

How do we KNOW that we have God's Word in our hands today when we open up our Bibles? How can we be sure that we have the ORIGINAL Bible in our hands today? What is the Septuagint (LXX) translation and why do we NEED it to establish the original text of the Old Testament?

God brings great good out of evil and especially when that evil is directed as persecution of His people, His remnant, the Body of Christ - And right now we are facing a level of persecution that many Christians in the West have never had to face. In this podcast, I want to share what God did, God's response, in Acts 8 after one of his sons was murdered (Acts 7) and His Church arrested and imprisoned (Acts 8). God who was NOT THE AUTHOR of the murder and/or the imprisonments, ended up making the Kingdom of Darkness pay severely for the evil that came against His Remnant. God is a redeemer and let us look to Him right now to pour out His Spirit in America where His will is not being done in so many ways.

A message for the remnant - a call to endure in fearlessness at this critical hour! To continue to believe even when others are have given up. ...for such a time as this!

Who is this message for? Any Christian/Christian leader that voted for Biden/Harris or supported those who did. Any NeverTrumper Christian that refused to vote for Trump/Pence and influenced others not to vote for them. Finally, and to a far lesser degree - Any Christian that is now giving up believing what God revealed and what He wants for America (and the world) in the months and years to come. Unquestionably the most controversial podcast I've ever done.No regrets. What I have spoken is the Word of the Lord.For such a time as this!

There was just too many other things that I didn't mention in the last podcast. I had to do a Part 2. I summarized the points from Part 1 and went on to emphasize other things God has been saying in 2020 - Has He been saying the same things to you personally? Your Church? To your movement? To your tribe? As Jesus said, "To him who has ears to hear, let him hear".

God has spoken a number of things to us and our community since the end of 2019 and throughout 2020. This is a summary of some of those things - from a promise of protection against COVID, to a mandate to be "Fear Extinguishers", to the priority of house church meetings, and that it is a season of Harvest...I think that you will find that God has been speaking many of the same things to His Church all around the world. I've had a number of men and women confirm that God has said the same things to them and their communties - Maybe some of the language was/is a little different, but the substance is the same. ...for such a time as this!

If ever the message of "greater grace" was needed, it is NOW. Never have I witnessed a time of greater need than the present for us to access the "greater grace" that God is giving and will give in the days to come! Grace to overcome, grace to extinguish fear, grace to empower...

A Persian woman's healing in a restaurant leads to a night of healings, prophetic ministry and sharing all about Jesus at their home. They invited their friends! God broke in that night in a powerful way - PLEASE GO AND DO LIKEWISE!!!!

Acts 10 is a key chapter revealing what is "new" about the wineskin of House Churches - it is a new day, God is doing something new (which is actually ancient!) and the question is...WILL WE JOIN HIM??? For the sake of the lost in this critical time. May this message be catalytic in changing your thinking - even as it has been in mine. ...for such a time as this!

Dual mandates - the Lord is leading His people at this time. I have never heard Him more clearly. He gave us the mandate to Extinguish Fear, He spoke about it being "Time to Come Home". A message wherein I talk about what God has been saying and doing in this hour.

Yes, it is time for the Church to start gathering again IN PERSON, but it is NOT yet the time for the Church to try to resume big church meetings! Gather = YES! Gather BIG? NO.Many Christian leaders in America didn't see the COVID-19 pandemic coming and they were unprepared. And then when it hit, they underestimated how devasting it would be! And now, some of them are misunderstanding what God is saying about HOW to begin gathering.It is TIME to gather IN HOMES!! The bigger meetings will come...but the timing is critical!For such a time as this!

A call for us all to DO WHAT JESUS WOULD BE DOING IN THIS HOUR!!Hint: He would not be "staying at home"!A passionate plea for Christians TO BE CHRISTIANS! For Believers, TO BELIEVE!

Podcast #4 - more stories of God being. the "Way Maker", enabling us to bring the message and the power of the Kingdom of God to fearful, lost people at this time of the COVID-19 Pandemic.#covid19church #covid19 #fearextinguishers #coronavirus #quarantine #curfew #opportunties

A recent message that I gave when the COVID-19 problem was just beginning. I begin by looking at the irony of so-called "Discernment Ministries" that don't actually believe in the gifts God has given us "to discern"! When it comes to the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul did not want us to be unaware or uninformed or ignorant. I explore three questions: 1. How do we GET the Gifts of the Spirit 2. WHO DECIDES what Gifts we get? 3. How do we GROW in the Gifts of the Spirit? for such a time as this!

Podcast #3 about our mandate in these days to be "fear extinguishers" wherever we go. More stories, more encounters and a whole new element that we've been adding in - just praying with people prayers of surrender, of salvation. My heart is to inspire, to encourage - for such a time as this!!#pandemic #covid-19 #coronavirus #fear #prayer #salvation #kingdom #christian #church

It has been 10 days since the Lord spoke to us that our mandate in this hour is to be "FEAR Extinguishers". What you are about to hear are some of the stories of what God has been doing.My only plea to you is this - DON'T MISS THIS UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY to minister to the people you meet. This COVID-19 pandemic will end soon enough and this one-in-a-lifetime opportunity will be over.BECOME LOVE and TAKE God's Kingdom to the people you encounter. Pray for them. For their peace, for their protection and for God to EXTINGUISH any and all fear!...for such a time as this!

During a time of worship and prayer in the midst of a nation gripped by fear due to the COVID-19 Virus, the Lord clearly spoke to us saying that He wanted us to be "Fear Extinguishers" in a time when hundreds of thousands are full of fear and panicking. Many believers are struggling as well - may this podcast encourage you and remind you of who we are, what we have been given and how God would want us to respond in the midst of this global crisis!

There is still much confusion in the Body of Christ about what constitutes a "false prophet". The word is thrown around all over the place (especially the internet by the hyper critics, the so-called “Discernment Ministries”) and many, if not most of the people using the term, are NOT USING it according to the New Testament concept. They are stuck in the Old Testament concept of a prophet and false prophet and need to move into the New Testament. In short, a false prophet in the NT is NOT a Christian who makes a mistake when prophesying! That is NOT what a false prophet is in the NT. In reality, those who sound the alarm the most, "Beware of False Prophets", are far more likely to be deceived by a false prophet than other Christians, because they deny the operation of the very gifts that the Lord has given His Church to discern and determine who the “false prophets” actually are! Listen and you'll see what I mean.

I find it interesting that non-Charismatic Christians seem to know each and every verse, no matter how obscure, in the Scriptures that ‘seem to teach’ that somehow God isn't as interested in healing as we would contend. I was like that for years. I had my "ammunition" verses to fight off my more Charismatic friends' arguments. Funny, how I completely ignored the DOZENS of passages that completely contradicted my understanding of God and His willingness to heal today. One of the key verses in the arsenal is 2 Timothy 4:19 - This verse has been cited by people for years as some kind of evidence that healing isn't always God's will. In this podcast, I am going consider this oft-quoted verse. What's incredible to me is how much can be 'read into' a verse (called eisegesis) or passage that simply isn't there. I discovered that while I was doing this podcast and meditated on this verse.

I revisit in this message the role we play, and the normal means of grace God has ordained in our PURSUIT of Him and the process called sanctification. God has done and will do His part, but He won't do our part as we cooperate with grace daily to be transformed into the image of His Son. Can I say that again? God WON’T DO OUR PART. That is the way He sovereignly decided to govern His affairs with us.

The so-called "Grace Message" being championed today by self-identified "Grace Teachers" has grown extremely popular especially in charismatic circles. They are even calling it a "Grace Revolution", but is it really the message of Grace that the Apostle Paul, the Apostle of Grace, taught? Are these teachers truly recovering a message they believe has been lost since Apostolic times? Or have they simply re–tooled an ancient false teaching that they've simply rebranded? I not only believe much of what is being taught today in the name of “Grace” constitutes false teaching, but in many cases, it has become heresy. It's not simply "hyper" grace as some critics have called it, but it is a false grace, a counterfeit grace, that leads people to forfeit the very thing these teachers believe they are guarding. Rather than freedom, they are leading many into bondage and deception.

Different parts of the Body of Christ emphasize different aspects of what the New Testament teaches about faith. From the role of faith in our salvation, to the exercising of faith when it comes to the release of God's Kingdom in supernatural ways. This podcast is focused upon the latter concept - a faith that we can grow in and that God expects to increase in the life of every believer. This will challenge BOTH the Evangelical AND the Word of Faith Pentecostal!

This is a message that Charismatics need to take to heart - we can easily neglect the "normal means" God uses instead expecting everything to come "miraculously"! 1 Tim. 4:8 - "For physical training is of some value, but training in godliness is of value in every way both in this life and the life to come". I talk further about things the Lord has been teaching me through my Bible Reading Plan and the NORMAL way He has ordained for us to grow spiritual. Beware - it isn't the "instant" or "automatic" way we so often want.

James 3:16 says that where you find envy, there you will find EVERY EVIL THING. Why is that? In this message, I take a deep look at why envy is so demonic, why it attracts "every evil thing" - Did you know it was Satan's original sin? Yes, nobody told me that either! I cite multiple Early Church Fathers' opinions on the matter.

A sermon about God’s Essential Nature = LOVE (not His Power/Sovereignty) 1 Peter 1:1-3 - Becoming Partakers of the Divine Nature = BECOMING LOVE (OUR PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT) We are X-Men! We lack NOTHING because His Divine Power has given us everything we need for a godly life! (NOTE: Calvinists WILL NOT like this podcast!)

What many don't understand is that the radical Shi'ite Muslims in Iran are looking for the return of their "Messiah" to conquer Jerusalem and set up a one-world Islamic government and that these beliefs are behind what they have done and what they are doing and most importantly WHAT THEY WILL BE DOING in the future. We however know that it is the Lord Jesus Christ who will be returning to establish His eternal Kingdom. And it is this belief that should be fueling those of us who follow Christ!

Reflecting on WHO God is, on WHO we have become and WHAT is available. The primacy of love - why is love at the center of everything? God is love and has invited us into His Kingdom of Love forever!

Apostasy - also known as falling away, abandoning the faith, or the recent woke term "Deconstructionism". What does the Bible teach about this seemingly growing trend? What did the Church believe about it until the 5th century? How/why did that change? What are some of the factors that lead people to abandon the faith? How do we know that we are currently "in the family"? What are the things we can do to ensure we don't fall away?

Looking at Romans 5, 6, 7, 8 and briefly at the rest of of Romans. I explored these questions: What did we inherit from Adam? (What was/is "Original Sin"?) The Early Church differed from Augustine regarding this question. Who is Paul talking about in Romans 7 - himself and believers? Again, the Early Church had one view and Augustine introduced, or shall we say "invented" another view that the Reformers followed. Does the NT consider us "sinners" as Christians? These are extremely important issues and tragically, many Protestants have followed "traditions" for their answers. Martin Luther, was the originator of the concept of the Saint/Sinner dual identity. This message takes on these "traditions of men" and calls us back to the Biblical, Apostolic understandings.

Revisiting this controversial topic - Healing in the Old Testament vs. Healing in the New Testament. Was physical healing a part of the Old Covenant? What were the conditions? Is it a part of the New Covenant? What are the conditions? If so, is physical healing IN THE Atonement? Is healing God's will, and if so, how often? What about those who believe that healing ended? What do we see in Church History? Why don't we see more healing today? These and many other questions - lots of Scripture!!

Continuing in the series of how we can access "Greater Grace" - in this message, I look at two more ways - asking/seeking/knocking and using your gifts.

Continuing to explore how we can access "Greater Grace" in these days where it is needed. In this message, I explore obedience/holiness and fasting.

This is a continuation of the previous message - greater evil requires that we access greater grace to stand, to overcome and to extend His Kingdom.

This is a message about "Greater Grace" (James 4:6) - Why do we need it in the days in which we are living? How can we access it? A critical message as so many believers are not accessing what God has made available.

In Luke 18:8, Jesus wondered about a question - will His followers be living IN FAITH (and all that means) when He returns? This is a question we as His disciples should reflect upon often. Are we living out the faith, are we obeying Him, are we doing what He asked us to do?

There is no message more central to the Christian faith and yet more neglected and more misunderstood than the message of love. this is a life message for me - I need to preach it often and live it daily!

This is part one of a message about BOLDNESS from Acts 4, about LOVE from Matthew 24 and about ENDURANCE from Hebrews 12. Some new insights that I have had about both boldness and love in this message.

Another sober and challenging consideration of the Christian life in light of eternity. The radical cost of following Jesus for so many of God's children ONLY makes sense in light of eternity. May God awaken within us all this perspective - that this life is only a "vapor" (James 4:14) in comparison to life everlasting in the presence of God.

Are we living at the End of the Age? No one knows, but the things Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 are happening today all over the world. The apostasy, the lawlessness, the persecution. Let us all consider our own lives in light of the clear words of Jesus. Let us re-commit ourselves to follow Him with endurance until His Return!

Nothing changes everything like having the Eternal Perspective. So little of what Jesus taught makes any sense UNLESS we ourselves get His perspective - the eternal one. I continue to "explore the space" as to what it means to live our temporal lives from this place.

The mandate all Christians have until Christ Returns - we are brought into the Kingdom and commissioned to "preach the Gospel of the Kingdom" - what does that look like? what does that entail? This is not a secondary issue but our PRIMARY mandate as followers of Christ.

A Christian is: *FORGIVEN **RESTORED ***SET FREE ****ADOPTED *****GIVEN AN INHERITANCE ******EMPOWERED

You simply cannot get away from the Biblical truth that LOVE is what God is and what God requires of us. I walk through EVERY NT leader - from Jesus to all of the Apostles who wrote the New Testament. Love IS the key because God Himself is LOVE.

This is message I recently gave about having an eternal perspective. I believe this is one of the keys to living the Christian life and to being able to endure until the end. I will follow this up with other messages in this series. Note: This is one of the MOST IMPORTANT podcasts I have ever done.

The Kingdom of God was Jesus' PRIMARY message - but it was MORE THAN "a message" - it was a DEMONSTRATION of what it looks like when Heaven invades earth. This is Christianity 101 and yet many Christians are not living this way. May this be our primary message!