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Word for the Week 2006
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| Taking the Land, Part VII | | Week 1, 2006 - This study is about how we will take the Promised Land, as the church, and as individuals. During this week’s study, I want to focus on how we can individually begin to practically cease from our wanderings, mostly in circles in...
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| Taking the Land, Part VIII | | Week 2, 2006 - Before the New Year’s message and in the last part of our study, we examined the ban that Achan violated which led to his and his family’s destruction. This may have seemed harsh, but it was intended to deal with the greed within the...
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| Taking the Land, Part IX | | Week 3, 2006 - In our last study, we ended with the prophecy in Isaiah 60 that declares how at the very time deep darkness is coming upon the people, the glory of the Lord will be appearing on His people. Before we leave the situation concerning...
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| Taking the Land, Part X | | Week 4, 2006 - As stated in our last study, in contrast to the growing lawlessness there is an emerging generation of spiritual leaders who will come forth in the opposite spirit. These are the ones who will preach the gospel of the kingdom with...
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| Taking the Land, Part XI | | Week 5, 2006 - After the incredible and miraculous victory over Jericho, Achan's sin had caused a defeat for the entire nation of Israel before the tiny little village of Ai. Without question, this shook their confidence. If any pride had entered...
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| Taking the Land, Part XII | | Week 6, 2006 - Through Achan’s sin, Israel had learned some valuable lessons about both greed and rebellion. Sin results in defeat. Rebellion results in defeat. To take the Promised Land, or to possess our promises, we need faith, courage, wisdom...
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| Taking the Land, Part XIII | | Week 7, 2006 - Amazingly, right after Israel absorbed the lessons from Achan's sin and their initial defeat at Ai, the next main event in the conquest of the Promised Land was their deception by the Gibeonites. This, too, was the result of...
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| Taking the Land, Part XIV | | Week 8, 2006 - The next few chapters of Joshua are the history of how Israel defeated and possessed all of the cities and fortresses in their Promised Land. They were commanded to utterly destroy the inhabitants because they had been given over to...
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| Taking the Land, Part XV | | Week 9, 2006 - As we see in the Book of Hebrews and other places in the Bible, many things in Scripture are a prophetic type of other, greater things. The Promised Land of Israel was to be a prophetic type of the establishing of the kingdom of God...
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| Taking the Land, Part XVI | | Week 10, 2006 - Last week we began discussing what the earth will be like when the kingdom has come and the earth has been restored. Certainly there is far more to this than we have covered, but since the Bible is quite general about this we will be...
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| Taking the Land, Part XVII | | Week 11, 2006 - Many Christians have the simplistic understanding that the next life will be a matter of the reward of heaven and eternal bliss for those who accepted the Lord and a corresponding eternal punishment for those who did not. There is...
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| Taking the Land, Part XVIII | | Week 12, 2006 - As we have been discussing, our Promised Land is nothing less than bringing the kingdom of God to the earth. We are preparing the way for this now. His kingdom is coming, not just to take control of the earth again, but to restore...
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| Taking the Land, Part XIX | | Week 13, 2006 - As we have discussed, our Promised Land in Christ is the nations, the very ends of the earth (see Psalm 2:8). The Lord is coming back to restore the entire earth, and we are now laying the foundation for the coming of His kingdom to...
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| Taking the Land, Part XX | | Week 14, 2006 - We now want to go into a little more depth about how the Lord has been preparing for the coming of His kingdom throughout this church age. It is important to see this to understand the events that will be coming upon the world at the...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXI | | Week 15, 2006 - The most basic principle that we must understand about the kingdom is that Jesus is the King of the coming kingdom. That may sound ridiculously obvious, but it has been easily forgotten by those who sought to prepare the way for His...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXII | | Week 16, 2006 - We cannot really address the possessing of our Promised Land and what it means for the church without examining eschatology, which is the study of the prophecies of the end of this age. This is an often confusing and controversial...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXIII | | Week 17, 2006 - As we continue our study of the antichrist, let us always keep in mind that it is far more important to know what Christ is doing than what the antichrist is doing. At the same time that the antichrist is seeking to take over the world...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXIV | | Week 18, 2006 - As we continue to look at the historical perspective of eschatology, we are going to condense some crucial events that span over a thousand years into just a few paragraphs. This is not giving the historical perspective, or you, real...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXV | | Week 19, 2006 - As we are in a place of looking at some of the ways that church history effects us today and because there are so many questions about the book, The Da Vinci Code, which makes many assertions about church history, I think we need to add...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXVI | | Week 20, 2006 - We took a seeming diversion last week to briefly address The Da Vinci Code and the fallacies it asserted about the Bible and church history. In these times, we can expect an increasing onslaught of such attempts to sow into the minds an...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXVII | | Week 21, 2006 - As one friend of mine recently pointed out, history must be very important or every evil dictator would not be so determined to change it. This is an interesting point, as there does seem to be a drive in every evil leader to rewrite...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXVIII | | Week 22, 2006 - As we covered previously, the primary work of the kingdom is restoration. It is God's nature to restore that which has fallen, and when He does, He will make that which has been restored better than before, just as the "new creation" is...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXIX | | Week 23, 2006 - For centuries, there has been much speculation and accusation about who the great harlot, or "mystery, Babylon," is in Revelation 17. Because of verse 9, "Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXX | | Week 24, 2006 - We have briefly covered how the Reformers considered that many of the biblical prophecies were fulfilled in history by the church in the Middle Ages which had become apostate. A counter eschatology arose within the Catholic Church which...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXI | | Week 25, 2006 - We have briefly looked at some of the eschatological views developed from a historical perspective. However, we should keep in mind that not all of the Reformers held to the same views about the end-time fulfillment of biblical...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXII | | Week 26, 2006 - As we studied last week, love is the essential foundation for all true discernment. This is why we teach our prophetically gifted people not to trust a negative revelation about anyone they have been hurt or rejected by, but rather...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXIII | | Week 27, 2006 - As we covered some time ago, the first lesson Israel had to learn if they were going to make it across the wilderness to their Promised Land, was how to turn the bitter waters into sweet, as we read in Exodus 15:22-26:
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXIV | | Week 28, 2006 - As the church begins to enter its Promised Land, it will demonstrate to the world the distinction between the citizens of the kingdom of God and those of this world. Presently, there is very little distinction in anything, including...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXV | | Week 29, 2006 - The purpose of this study is not just to know and understand the biblical prophecies concerning these times, but to be prepared for the times. This week we will briefly look at how the message of the last two weeks is crucial for this...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXVI | | Week 30, 2006 - From the very beginning of the church in the first century, there have been those who have been prone to compromise the gospel in order to appease people, trying to make it easier for them to accept. This tendency has always caused far...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXVII | | Week 31, 2006 - Even a cursory look at church history reveals many things that were not only contrary to the teachings and nature of Christ, but were diabolical in nature. Today the church tends to deal mostly with matters of insensitivity, but in time...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXVIII | | Week 32, 2006 - As we proceed toward considering how we can help build the highway for our God, we want to occasionally fortify the foundations of our own spiritual lives. Just as there were five pillars at the door of the Holy Place in the tabernacle...
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| Taking the Land, Part XXXIX | | Week 33, 2006 - From a basic knowledge of church history, we can begin to recognize, understand, and avoid the traps that continue to cause many Christian movements to stumble. This is good and necessary, but we also need to understand the foundations...
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| Taking the Land, Part XL | | Week 34, 2006 - As we continue this week with our brief study of the kingdom government of God, we will consider democracy's place in that government. Of course, many great teachers who have had a vision of the coming kingdom have stated that there...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLI | | Week 35, 2006 - As we are addressing ways that we can help build the highway for our God and the coming of His kingdom, and that a kingdom is fundamentally a government, we should expect the coming government of God to be born out of the church, His...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLII | | Week 36, 2006 - We have briefly discussed how the democratic principles born out of the church during the Protestant Reformation have blessed and set free many nations in this age. It is also the form of government which, when applied to the church, is...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLIII | | Week 37, 2006 - In this study of how the church will possess its Promised Land, we are taking a bit of time to examine government, because the kingdom of God is basically and first of all the government of God. Just as many conquerors in history...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLIV | | Week 38, 2006 - Two things that we know the Lord especially loves are unity and diversity. The Lord loves diversity so much that He even makes every snowflake different. No two trees are alike. Every leaf is different from every other leaf on the...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLV | | Week 39, 2006 - As we are still discussing the important subject of church government, which will also become a pattern for the coming kingdom government, the first principle in establishing and maintaining true spiritual authority is keeping the Lord...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLVI | | Week 40, 2006 - As we are still discussing the important subject of church government, which will also become a pattern for the coming kingdom government, the first principle in establishing and maintaining true spiritual authority is keeping the Lord...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLVII | | Week 41, 2006 - Last week we covered a number of practical issues concerning the kingdom of God, especially how elders or anyone given authority in the church need to be given specific authority, not general authority. Those appointed need to know...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLVIII | | Week 42, 2006 - Man exists for God. Government exists for man, and this includes the government of God. Government is the servant, not the master. Because fallen man is basically selfish and self-centered, stronger government is needed to keep order...
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| Taking the Land, Part XLIX | | Week 43, 2006 - Last week we discussed briefly the attitude toward authority that the Lord will bless. To a large degree, King David and his extraordinary and unique ability to touch the heart of God was the product of King Saul. It was mostly Saul's...
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| Taking the Land, Part L | | Week 44, 2006 - There are many forms of democracy. If there is a form of democracy that takes its place in the kingdom of God, we can expect it to be much more brilliant than any form that we have now. Even so, the basic premise that the Lord wants our...
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| Taking the Land, Part LI | | Week 45, 2006 - We are told in II Corinthians 3:17, "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." This is one of the great distinctions between the kingdom of God and the domain of the devil. The devil seeks...
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| Taking the Land, Part LII | | Week 46, 2006 - This year we have been devoted to understanding the coming kingdom of God and the many ways in which we are preparing the way for the Lord by building a highway. This highway has been under construction since the church was born on the...
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| Taking the Land, Part LIII | | Week 47, 2006 - As I have repeated, this study is intended to be a broad perspective that connects history to prophecy, the past to the present to the future. When I was a new Christian more than thirty-five years ago, I felt compelled to study church...
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| Taking the Land, Part LIV | | Week 48, 2006 - Immediately after His victory on the cross and His resurrection, Jesus had legal authority to cast the devil into the lake of fire and to establish His kingdom on the earth. He did not do this at that time for several reasons, which we...
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| Taking the Land, Part LV | | Week 49, 2006 - As we discussed last week, the Lord had the legal authority to bind the devil and take authority over the earth immediately after His resurrection. However, He did not do this for our sakes. He did not bind the devil because He did not...
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| Taking the Land, Part LVI | | Week 50, 2006 - Last year I was given a dream in which I saw a cloud of death sweeping the earth. To escape this cloud, I had to enter a house, which I knew was the house of the Lord. When I got to the door, even though I knew I had the key to the...
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| Taking the Land, Part LVII | | Week 51, 2006 - Last week, I mentioned the dream I had in which I saw a cloud of death sweeping the earth. To escape this cloud, I had to enter a house, which I knew was the house of the Lord. When I got to the door, even though I knew I had the key to...
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| A Word for the New Year | | Week 52, 2006 - This coming year, the Lord is going to again impart grace for His people to keep their New Year's resolutions. Many experienced breakthroughs this year and started to taste real victory after years of defeat in some areas. Many did not...
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