Gates of Heaven.

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Alison Humbert spoke at both services today. Alison has traveled extensively to several countries, including Haiti, Ukraine, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. She experienced a considerable amount of spiritual opposition. She learned to bring the Life of Heaven into her surroundings so God’s will would be accomplished.

(10/14/2007) Alison’s pastor (not myself) taught his congregation to bring Heaven into the earth, rather than try to get people into Heaven. This is a marvellous and eminently practical concept.

I have been saying for years that an age of moral and physical horrors is approaching the United States. I believe it has begun, in that I have read in the newspaper that in the State of California it now is illegal to use the terms "Mom" and "Dad," "Husband" and "wife," in any state-supported institution. I hope I am mistaken in what I read, but I don’t think I am. The reader can check it out by reading the recently passed SB777 and AB394.

From my point of view, this is a very significant step downward in the moral decline of the United States. In fact, it nearly is incomprehensible.

We are not to fret ourselves over these two bills. Listening to Alison I realized that we can go to prayer, targeting the practice of excluding Mom, Dad, husband and wife, from the reading materials of the public schools of California. Possibly some good can be done through political endeavours. But I am persuaded that we must bring the Life of Heaven into play such that God’s wisdom and power overthrow this sort of thing.

When Jacob left Beersheba on his way to Haran to get a wife, God met him in a dream.

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, ‘Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.’ He was afraid and said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.’" (Genesis 28:16,17)

Please notice the expression, "This is the gate of Heaven."

In his dream Jacob had seen a stairway "resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it."

Obviously the point of origin for the angels was the earth.

This passage is significant for us. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the stairway resting on the earth with its top reaching to Heaven.

He then added, "I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." (John 1:51)

When we are living in the will of God, Jesus Christ is dwelling in us. When the Lord Jesus Christ is dwelling in us, we are Jacob’s stairway, Jacob’s ladder. When we are Jacob’s stairway, we are the "gate of Heaven."

When we are the gate of Heaven we are a passageway through which the power and wisdom of Heaven can issue forth wherever there is spiritual darkness in the earth.

I get the impression that today Satan is attacking the concept of "gender." He would like to erase the idea of gender from our minds, I think.

Now, what could Satan hope to accomplish by doing away with the idea of gender?

In the beginning, God defined man. Man is a son of God. Man is in the image and likeness of God, Man is male and female. Man is to be fruitful. Man is to have rulership over the works of God’s hands.

As far as I know, this fiat always will define man—even to eternity.

After God is through working, man will be a son of God, having been truly born of God, not merely created, as was Adam.

Man will be in the moral image and outer likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Man will be male and female in some transcendent sense that we do not see as yet.

Man will bear the image of God throughout the universe until additional planets are needed to host the ever increasing population.

Man will govern all the works of God’s hands.

Thus there was an adamic prototype of "man"; and then there will be a marvellous, nearly incomprehensible, fulfilment of the Divine fiat regarding man.

The concept of male and female is intrinsic to the five aspect of the fiat. Apart from the union of male and female there is no full image of God. Apart from the union of male and female there can be no fruitfulness, consequently no dominion, because the power of rulership comes from fruitfulness.

Satan is seeking to interrupt this fiat by confusing the idea of gender, of "Mom and Dad," of husband and wife.

Another dimension of the effort to confuse the fiat concerning male and female is to prevent the solid family unit, consisting of father, mother, and children. A stable, loving family unit well may be the best source of wholesome personality development. Lawless, God-despising children are not likely to come from a stable, loving home environment. So Satan will do all in his power to prevent the forming of such sources of personality nourishment.

Today we see powerful forces in government, education, and the media attempting to do away with the family unit; or, in the case of abortion, with the product of the union of a Mom and Dad.

We Christians are witnessing this moral and social destruction and are tempted to fret ourselves because of the rampant wickedness. However, fretting results only in our losing our joy in Christ.

God has a better response for us than fretting. If enough Christians agree in prayer there will come an end to the multitude of unnecessary abortions. If enough Christians agree in prayer, the laws that outlaw the mention of Mom and Dad, husband and wife, will be overturned; will be made null and void.

Better yet, if you, dear reader, and I, direct our attention specifically to some of these abominable developments, and pray, pray, pray without ceasing, change shall take place. Alison demonstrated this in her testimony of events in Haiti and Ukraine.

Will you pray specifically? Will I pray specifically? If we shall do this, change will occur.

Our job is to live before Christ in such a manner that we are a gate through which the Life and Light of God Almighty can issue forth and dispel the spiritual darkness that is invading the United States of America.

You can hear the morning sermon at morning. http://www.wor.org/audio/audio.htm

You can hear the evening sermon at evening. http://www.wor.org/audio/audio.htm

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