Are you an alien and living as an ambassdor?

We are to be aliens while living on this earth. You might ask, “What do you mean?”. The definition of Alien is as follows: residing under a government or in a country other than that of one's birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there.

According to the Word of God once we accept Jesus as our savior we are a new creation and not a part of this world which would make us aliens to this world. The Word says we have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kindom of His light. We have changed our citizenship. We are told according to 2 Corinthians 5:20 that as a new creation, a new citizen, living on this earth, we are to be abassadors for Christ.

An ambassador lives in a foreign country and represents his country of citizenship and will some day return to his nation of citizenship. We have our citizenship in heaven and we are living in a foreign country= earth, and we are to represent our country, heaven, and will one day return there. My husband and I have visited many foreign countries and when you visit a foreign country you usually stand out. The way you dress is different, the language you speak is different, the way you think is different, you are culturally different. Do you stand out as being different, following another culture, or have you taken on the characteristics of this world's system? God tells us we are to follow His system and not that of this world. Our mores, our integrity, our guideline for life should be of God's system. Do you accept as good that which God says is evil. Do you do things just because every one is doing it and because society has accepted it or do you preserve yourself following God's Word? The world says there are no absolutes yet God's Word should be our absolute guide adhereing to God's absolute principles. People don't follow God's word as they don't want to stand out and be different. BUT that is exactly what God's word says we are to do! We are to stand out as being different. As this world system is rapidly changing in what it accepts as good and right we should stand out even more as aliens to this world's system belonging to another kingdom.

Does your way of life line up with this world's system or does your life line up to God's kingdom?

Romans 12:2 NASB
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Have you let society change what you think is good and acceptable and therefore no longer take a stand for God's teachings? Or are you allowing God's Word to change your thinking and through His Word and being empowered by His Holy Spirit take a stand for God proving by your actions and your words what the will of God is and showing the world what is good, acceptable, and perfect according to Romans 12:2?

I thought about this when I saw a friend's post on facebook that stated since divorce is now acceptable in our society why don't we accept and embrace the other things God says are sins? She was stating that it was time to discard God's teachings since society now says certain things are acceptable. God's Word is true and should be our standard. If God says he hates something we should not as followers of God and Jesus Christ embrace it. There are many attitudes that are contrary to the Word of God that Chrisitans are now embracing due to the culture of this land. God says to be an alien, a foreigner to this world's way of thinking and not to think and act like this world's system.

1 Peter 2:9 = But you are a chosen race, a royal preisthood, a dedicated nation, God's own purchased, special people, His treasure, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Remember we have been translated into the Kingdom of Light.

We are to display His virtues. I looked up the meaning of virtue and this is what I found:

1. moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.

conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.

Perfections of Him = a perfect embodiment or example of something.

a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of 

excellence.

We should be walking in moral excellence and goodness displaying the righteousness of Christ Jesus as his representatives. The Christian walk is not a spectator sport. You actively participate in being God's ambassador. You bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ which in turn changes your actions. The world tries to train your thinking and thereby changes your actions by what you learn at school, what you watch and see on TV, and the words on the music you listen to- which all go into your your mind and thereby change your actions. The world understands this is how to change a society. That's why it is so important to dwell on God's Word and train your thinking to line up with God's kingdom. You have a choice to feed your body, mind, and soul the things of this world and this world's thinking, or to feed your Spirit the Word of God and uphold His virtues in the way you think and act. We should look and act different than the followers of this world. People are trying so hard to confrom to this world so they look and act like everyone else, yet God tells us we are to be different. He has empowered us by the Holy Spirit to resist the temptations of this world, to train our senses to discern good and evil, to retrain our thinking to line up to His Word, and to be a light in this dark world.

Hebrews 5:14 & 15 amplified version = For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness, (that is, of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought and action,) for he is a mere infant-not able to talk yet! But solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law.

Do you make it a habit to put into practice God's principles or the principles of this World?

We are a new creation revealing the image of God and releasing His power on this earth. If someone looks at you and is around you can they tell by your actions and your words that you are an alien to this world's system, a follower of Christ, whose citizenship is in heaven or do you blend in with this world?

The Weapons of our Warfare

This is the radio script for The Weapons of our Warfare:

God has given us powerful tools to use while a resident of earth. Paul tells in 1 Cor. 10:4

For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds.

What are the weapons that we were given when we became a child of God and part of the Kingdom of God?

We were given the blood to declare our righteousness before the accuser.

We have been given the name of Jesus and all the authority it carries

We have been given the power of praying in agreement with the Word of God and able to make petitions before the almighty God

We can put on the armor of God to deflect the attacks of the enemy: Eph 6:10-18

10 be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].

11 Put on God’s whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully, did you hear that, successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil. Not just some but ALL the attacks of the devil. God has given us armor to wear to be victor- ious against every attack and strategy of the devil.

12 For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotism, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.

There is a battle in the spiritual realm that we can not see with the natural eye but it is just as real if not more so than what we can see. It is a battle between the forces of evil – Satan and his regime, and the forces of God and His angelic host.

vs. 13= Therefore put on God’s complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having done all [the crisis demands], to stand [firmly in your place]. James tells us a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), is unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides. We are not to be like that but stand firmly resting in God.

14 Stand therefore [hold your ground], having tightened the belt of truth around your loins, that is God's Word for John 17:17 states:

Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy] by the Truth; for Your Word is Truth. Declare the truth, God's Word, over your situation not what you see or feel.

and having put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God,

we know we are in right standing for Romans 5:9 states:

Therefore, since we are now justified, acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God by Christ’s blood, So we can stand knowing that we have right standing with God. Be sure that you come before the Father and are cleansed of any wrong doing before going into battle against the enemy so you don't give the enemy any place.

15 And having shod your feet in preparation to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news of the Gospel of peace. Peace meaning that we are at peace with God and in right relationship.

16 Lift up over all as a covering the shield of faith, upon which you can quench all- it didn't say some, it says ALL the flaming missiles of the wicked one. Heb 11:6 = But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him.

17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God. It says You Take. God does not do it for you. He has given you the tools and the weapons, but you must use the Word to defeat the enemy.

Salvation is the helmet you must wear as you must constantly keep before you and in your mind and in your thoughts that you have been redeemed, you have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. You must keep before you that you have right standing with God and you are NOW His child. It is not for some time in the future in heaven. The first battle we fight is the battle in the mind. Bring every thought captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ. You must control what you allow to be in your thoughts which then dictate your actions. Only think thoughts that line up with the Word of God and what it says about you and about your situation.

And the most powerful tool is in verse 18.

18 Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God’s consecrated people).

The majority of Christians do not even pray and yet it is our most powerful tool as we declare the Word of God and make petitions before Him.

According to Heb.1:14 we have an angelic hosts to help us:

Are not the angels all ministering spirits (servants) sent out in the service [of God for the assistance] of those who are to inherit salvation?

How do we put our angelic hosts into action.

Psalm 103:20 tells us that they obey the Word of God:

Bless the Lord, you His angels, you mighty ones who do His commandments, hearkening to the voice of His word. When we speak and declare God's word the Angelic hosts comes to attention and is then dispatched to carry out God's Word.

Accepting Jesus as your savior and acknowledging the cleansing power of His blood puts you in right standing with God. Take time to study God's Word to see what tools He has made available to you to live a victorious life while occupying this earth.

The Laver

This is my radio script for the Laver.

As a Christian you begin your walk as a baby but you are to study the Word and become mature. We live in an instant society. We have fast food, instant messages, instant this and instant that. The Christian walk begins instantly when you receive Jesus but the total transformation is not instant. Yes, there are times that God instantly takes away addictions and performs miracles, but most of the time it takes time and patience and is a process.

I find it very interesting that The laver was made out of the bronze mirrors the women brought with them from Egypt and they were used to reflect the outward appearance and used for vanity. They would use these mirrors to see their imperfections that needed to be corrected with make up and outward adornment and also feed the flesh with pride. Now these mirrors are being used to reflect what does not look like Jesus, and our bodies, which are now the temple of God, are transformed from walking out vanity to honoring God as we present ourselves through the blood of Jesus and are cleansed as we apply the Word of God and are transformed.

As you look into the Word as the priest looked at his reflection in the laver, it reflects the areas that you need to retrain to come into alignment with God's kingdom, His principles, and where you need to retrain your flesh.

The children of Israel wore phylacteries which contained the word of God on their forehead to keep the Word of God constantly before them and to remind them to obey it. The Word of God should always be in our thoughts and directing our actions.

The Word says that we can retrain our flesh to know the difference between good and evil. (Heb. 5:14) That comes through applying the Word of God to your life, renewing your mind to the Word of God, and bringing every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. When I look at Galatians 5 I see the list of the fruit of the spirit. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Since as a Christian we are to walk according to the spirit and not according to the flesh then anything that doesn't line up to the fruit of the spirit needs to be taken to the altar and then cleansed by submitting it to Jesus and putting it at the cross and receiving what God's word says about it. Galatians 5:19-21 lists the deeds of the flesh.

19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are:immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Just as you apply medicine for physical problems you need to take the water of the Word and apply it to any area of your flesh that has not submitted to the principles of the kingdom of God and has not been placed on the altar. The altar of sacrifice-the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross- and the water of the Word represented by the laver to cleanse us prepares us to go into the Holy Place and into the presence of God.

The lack of applying the word of God to our lives today has caused a spiraling down of morality and disentegration of our nation. The obvious results of not applying the Word to our daily lives has been the senseless crimes, murders, and school shootings. We no longer teach our children God's Word as the standard upon which we live our lives.

I have observed that when people get into sin and their behavior changes they change churches to one that has a liberal stand on their behavior and change their thinking about what the word of God states. Instead we should be applying the word of God to our behavior and changing our behavior.

Even Soviet President Putin stated “In many countries today-specifically targeting the West- moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased,” He also said “They're now requiring not only the proper acknowledgement of freedom of conscience, political views and private life, but also the mandatory acknowledgement of the equality of good and evil, which are inherently contradictory concepts.”

He is right! We are now calling evil good and the liberals are calling good evil in order to be politically correct rather than Biblically correct.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, says “…. in terms of politics and morality, America no longer leads the world,”

The only answer is a return to God and a return to God's Word as the foundation for our lives. Begin today to make a decision to study God's Word and apply it to your life as your standard for what is right and wrong...instead of the world's opion for what is right and wrong.

The Altar of Sacrifice - Part 1

This is my radio script for the altar of sacrifice part 1.

Every part of the old testament tabernacle points to the finished work of Jesus. There was only one gate by which people could enter into the tabernacle courtyard. The gate was 30 feet wide. It was located directly in the center of the outer court on the east end. Jewish tradition teaches that the coming Messiah will enter Jerusalem through this very gate, the eastern gate. The one and only gate is a representation of Christ as the only way through which one could fellowship with God and worship Him. The children of Israel would walk through the gate of the tabernacle offering up thanksgiving and walk right into the altar of sacrifice. This altar was made of wood from the acacia tree and overlaid with bronze. Bronze in the Bible usually represents judgment on sin. This bronze altar was immense measuring 7.5 feet on all four sides, four square, and 4.5 feet deep. You could not go anywhere else in the taberncale without first stopping at the altar of sacrifice. This represents that you can not enter into the presence of God without Christ as your sacrifice. This altar was where the blood was shed and the sinner was pardoned. No matter how good a person was, without the shedding of blood there was no forgiveness. For a sin offering, a person had to bring an animal — a male one without blemish or defect from the flock or herd — to the priest at the tabernacle gate. The person was then to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it would then be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.” (Leviticus 1:4) By laying his hand upon the head of the offering, the person was identifying with the sacrifice. His sin and guilt was being moved from himself to the animal. Likewise, God made

Jesus who had no sin-without blemish- to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

The altar had four horns projecting from the top four corners and a bronze grating was inside to hold the animal. Horns were a symbol of power and strength in biblical times. When the sacrifice was made, blood was dabbed on the horns of the altar, signifying the power of the blood to atone for sins. In the same way, there is mighty power in the blood of Christ. Jesus is the “horn of our salvation”.

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My

God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, My shield and the HORN of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalm 89:26

We too must come through the gate of the tabernacle offering up thanksgiving and then squarely look at the face of the altar and see the face of Jesus taking our place, identifying with Him. Everything in the tabernacle was a shadow of the work of our Messiah, Jesus Christ. Once each year on the Day of Atonement=Yom Kippur (Lev. 16:1-19) the High Priest would take the blood of the bull and goat from the altar of sacrifice and go beyond the veil of the Holy of Holies and enter into God's presence by the blood and make atonement for the people. We are no longer required to offer up the blood of animals for Jesus was the final sacrifice and carried His own blood into the Heavenly Holy of Holies to make atonement for His people. Just as the Israelite identified with the animal being sacrificed we now are to identify with Jesus, seeing ourselves crucified with Him, and declare what He did for us. According to Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me. We are a royal priesthood that offers up the blood of Jesus and declares what God has done. (1 Peter 2:9) Hebrews 13:15 states, “Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name.

With the heart man believes resulting in righteousness and with the mouth he confesses resulting in salvation. Romans 10:10

We should look at the altar of sacrifice and declare what God has done for us through the blood and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We can now rejoice in our wonderful relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. Romans 5:11

I have been justified which I have heard someone say it is Just as if I had never sinned. I Peter 2:24 tells me that Christ Himself bore my sins in His body on the cross, the I might die to sin and live to righteousness, for by His wounds I have been healed. redeemed me from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for me, for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a Tree. Galatians 3:13 Jesus took on Himself the curse that came on mankind throught the first Adam.

Romans 12 tells us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—as this is our spiritual act of worship. We are not to be conformed to this world's system but be transformed which is accomplished by the renewing of our mind by the Word of God. We should look at the altar of sacrifice and declare what God has done for us through the blood and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Take time to study the word to find the scriptures that tell you what  Jesus shedding His blood and being the sacrificial lamb, the final sacrifice, means for you.

The Altar of Sacrifice-part 2

This is my radio script for the altar of Sacrifice.

Just as the Israelite was to identify with the sacrifice at the brazen altar we are to also identify with the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, the final sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb. Why did the children of Israel have to eat the entire lamb before the exodus? They had to totally identify with the sacrificial lamb. They had to ingest into their being the lamb that died in their place. They also had to put the blood from the lamb on the doorposts of their homes. When the angel of death saw the blood on the doorposts he passed over them when he slew the first born of Egypt which is why it is called passover. By ingesting the lamb there was not one feeble among them when they left and their clothes and sandals did not wear out the entire time they were wandering in the wilderness until they sinned 70 years later. Eating the entire lamb provided forgiveness of sin, healing for their bodies, and supernatural provision. The Israelite when he offered his sacrifice at the brazen altar knew of the testimony of the Exodus and understood what it meant to identify with the sacrifice. We are also told to identify with Jesus on the cross as our substitute and our passover lamb. The Jewish people were told to celebrate each year the Passover as an everlasting memorial. Jesus also celebrated the Passover sedar at what we call the “Last Supper or the Lord's supper as it was part of the Passover meal. In the New Testament accounts, we find reference to the First Cup, the Cup of Blessing (Luke 22:17); to the breaking of the matzoh (Luke 22:19); to the Third Cup, the Cup of Redemption (Luke 22:20); to reclining (Luke 22:14); to the charoseth (Matthew 26:23), and to the Hallel (Matthew 26:30)-all parts of the Passover sedar. Remember that Jesus and the disciples were practicing Jews. They knew and participated in the traditions and the celebrations that had been handed down from generation to generation. Therefore it was not recorded in detail in the NT

for any practicing Jew would understand what was being celebrated and what Jesus was saying.

During the “Last supper” the matzoh and the Third Cup are given special significance by Jesus: And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you" (Luke 22:19-20) Jesus was instituting the celebration of communion and tying it into the sacrifice of the passover lamb and the celebration of Passover.

The early Jewish believers in Jesus considered Him the fulfillment of the Passover lambs that were yearly sacrificed. Paul, a Jewish Christian who had studied under Rabbi Gamaliel, a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early-1st century wrote, "Messiah, our passover lamb, has been sacrificed for us" (1 Corinthians 5:7). John in his gospel noted that Jesus died at the same time that the Passover lambs were being slaughtered in the Temple (see John 19:14) and that like the Passover lambs, none of his bones were broken (the others being crucified had their leg bones broken by the Romans to hasten their death —John 19:32, 33, 36). The idea behind all this was that just as the Israelites were redeemed from Egyptian slavery by an unblemished lamb, now men could be freed from slavery to sin by the Messiah.

When you partake of communion think of Jesus as the passover lamb being offered up and shedding His blood on your behalf. The Passover Lamb was a shadow of the unblemished Lamb of God, Jesus, and the Passover is a type of the Lord's Supper. When you partake of the bread it is not just a piece of wafer that you take. He said this is my body broken for you. The matzoh bread that was a part of the passover, and now a part of our communion service, was pierced and had stripes on it representing the stripes put on Jesus' back and His side being pierced for your physical healing. The disciples knew when Jesus said, Take eat, this is my body, He was imparting His life, health and wholeness to their bodies. They knew that taking the bread meant ingesting His health into their mortal bodies just as the Israelites ate and ingested the symbolic lamb at passover and were totally healed.

Through Jesus' blood and His body being offered up He not only gives us forgiveness of sins but provides for the healing of our diseases and our total well being.

The King James Bible says “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows”, but the Young's literal translation of Isaiah 53 :4 says: “Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, and our pains He hath carried them”. This is stated again in Matthew 8:17, “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknessess”.

1 cor. 11:29-30 tells us that many are weak and sick among you because of not discerning the Lord's body while taking communion. Next time you partake of communion see Jesus on the cross as the perfect, sinless, lamb of God taking your place and mine as the final lamb of sacrifice and identify with Him giving His life in order to give you New Life, wholeness, healing to your body, and provision for all of you needs.

Bless the Lord o my soul and forget none of His benefits: who forgives all your iniquites, who heals all your diseases. Psalm 103:2-3.

Through Jesus' blood and His body being offered up He not only gives us forgiveness of sins but provides for the healing of our diseases and our total

I can change my thinking based on my experience, or I can change my experience by changing my thinking.

Hebrews 10:10 tells us we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Just as all of the children of Israel were healed when they ate the entire passover lamb, their substitute, Jesus healed ALL who came to Him. You have to believe that He wants to heal you and come to Him. He didn't heal everyone. He healed ALL who came to Him. The only place He didn't do any miracles was in His own home town because of their UNBELIEF due to their lack of faith.

Leviticus 17:11 confirms that "it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

Through Jesus' blood and His body being offered up He not only gives us forgiveness of sins but provides for the healing of our diseases and our total well being just as the Passover lamb provided as a shadow of the final sacrifice, Jesus.