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		<title>The Water of Life Adultery Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Swanson</dc:creator>
		
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Scott Parker has just joined the growing ranks of the Water of Life Adultery Support Group as they &#8220;kiss up&#8221; to daddy Doyle.  Here is his contribution to the madness-  &#8220;God put a prayer in my heart that I have been praying for months to receive one of the benefits of the gospel, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Scott Parker has just joined the growing ranks of the Water of Life Adultery Support Group as they &#8220;kiss up&#8221; to daddy Doyle.  Here is his contribution to the madness-  <em>&#8220;God put a prayer in my heart that I have been praying for months to receive one of the benefits of the gospel, today as I was reading what God ministered to Luke Peters.   I could feel the anointing and I believe God wants me to do the same, therefore I don’t need to pray this prayer anymore I just need to pray for Lisa to be delivered and come home, so that is what I will do - Scott&#8221;</em>  I have to believe that no one at Water of Life actually reads their Bible.  </p>
<p><strong>&#8220;WHOEVER commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding.  HE WHO DOES SO DESTROYS HIS OWN SOUL.  Wounds and dishonor HE WILL GET AND HIS REPROACH WILL NOT BE WIPED AWAY&#8221;   Proverbs 6:32-33.</strong>  I wonder what part of that Scott Parker cannot discern?  Yet Parker is not alone for their are prayers of this nature on EVERY Doyle Davidson website of all his apostles and elect ladies alike.  <strong>&#8220;They are wise to do evil but to do good they have NO knowledge&#8221;  Jeremiah 4:22</strong>, thus <strong>&#8220;THEY ARE SILLY CHILDREN&#8221;.</strong> </p>
<p><strong>&#8220;THE PUNISHMENT OF THE PROPHET (Doyle Davidson) SHALL BE THE SAME AS THE PUNISHMENT OF THE ONE WHO INQUIRED (Doyle Davidson Crew)&#8221;   Ezekiel 14:10.</strong>  They are ALL part of the adultery club!  Tomorrow night one of Davidson&#8217;s ex-apostles is one of the worst examples because he knew about the adultery from the beginning and yet did nothing until it became public knowledge.  Read about this apostle tomorrow night.</p>
<p>The indictment against the Water of Life Adultery Club is strong by way of the Scriptures-</p>
<p>1.  <strong>&#8220;They are ALL adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men&#8221;   Jeremiah 9:2.</strong>  That especially speaks to those who knew about the 17 year love afffair with Lisa and Doyle from the beginning including present apostles Basil Clark and Terry Mai among others.</p>
<p>2.  <strong>&#8220;They are ALL adulterers, like an oven heated for a baker&#8221;   Hosea 7:4.</strong>  Those that knew about that affair of Doyle&#8217;s from the beginning have already cooked their own goose!  </p>
<p>3. <strong> &#8220;I will be a swift witness against adulterers, says the Lord of hosts&#8221;  Malachi 3:5.</strong>  Doyle&#8217;s wife Patti will one day speak to the Lord about this and the tremendous amount of hurt that Davidson inflicted upon her daily.  Those at Water of Life better ponder this warning from Malachi 3:5 seriously!</p>
<p>4.  <strong>&#8220;Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge&#8221;  Hebrews 11:4.</strong>  Doyle and his support group will find this out the hard way.  Adulterers will NOT inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corionthians 6:9-10).</p>
<p>5.  <strong>&#8220;Adulterers and adulteresses.  Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity AGAINST God?  WHOEVER wants to be a friend of the world makes HIMSELF an enemy with God&#8221;  James 4:4.</strong>  That is how God views the Water of Life Adultery Club.  <strong>&#8220;You also OUTWARDLY appear righteous to men BUT INSIDE YOU ARE FULL OF HYPOCRISY AND LAWLESSNESS&#8221;  Matthew 23:28.</strong></p>
<p>Scott Parker would rather &#8220;kiss up&#8221; to Doyle over wounding him in Christ. <strong> &#8220;Open rebuke is better than secret love.  Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful&#8221;  Proverbs 27:5-6.</strong>  At Water of Life there are NO friends of Doyle Davidson, only deceitful kissers that are more his enemy than anyone else he says are.  That is sad and tragic.</p>
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		<title>Why Do So MANY People Follow False Teachers?- Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norris</dc:creator>
		
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&#8220;Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.  THEY MAKE YOU WORTHLESS.  THEY SPEAK A VISION OF THEIR OWN HEART, not from the mouth of the Lord&#8221;-  Jeremiah 23:16.
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<p><strong>&#8220;Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.  THEY MAKE YOU WORTHLESS.  THEY SPEAK A VISION OF THEIR OWN HEART, not from the mouth of the Lord&#8221;-  Jeremiah 23:16.</strong></p>
<p>It isn&#8217;t long before the false teachers betray themselves with their real motive for preaching, that being the mammon gospel (riches).  Todd Bentley has installed ATM machines at his revival, the Faith Movement demands that you go to the phone to mail in whatever pledges they are pushing that day with experts such as Paula White, Mike Murdock, or Steve Munsey.  Yet the Bible says that we are not to give out of necessity , which in the Greek means, BY COMPULSION (2 Corinthians 9:7).  If you really want to know who&#8217;s prospering take a gander at some of their homes.  If the 100 fold return worked so well why don&#8217;t they send you $100,000 for would that not gain THEM back a hundred fold return?  They&#8217;d never have to ask for money again.  <strong>&#8220;Men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth suppose that godliness is a means of gain.  From such withdraw yourself&#8221;- 1 Timothy 6:5.</strong>  Withdraw yourself, not your money to give to them.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation (Jim Bakker) and a snare (Jimmy Swaggert), and into MANY foolish and harmful lusts (Doyle Davidson), which drown men in destruction and perdition&#8221;- 1 Timothy 6:9. </strong>  Those that find themselves in this dire straight have no one but themselves to blame for the word of God says- <strong>&#8220;They have pierced </strong>THEMSELVES through with MANY sorrows&#8221;- 1 Timothy 6:10.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Brethren, let not MANY of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment&#8221;- James 3:1.</strong>  False teachers, such as Doyle Davidson, taught his flock that God gave him another man&#8217;s wife by taking one verse from Jeremiah 8 while ignoring the context of the rest of the chapter.  And MANY in his flock continue to follow that false teaching to this day.  Yet the adultery that Davidson committed with the object of his lust, while still married to another, yeilded only this- <strong>&#8220;Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding.  HE WHO DOES SO DESTROYS HIS OWN SOUL&#8221;- Proverbs 6:32.</strong>  Since he has destroyed his own soul what possible benefit can he be to his flock by his teachings?  Maybe he can help them to destroy their own souls too?  <strong>&#8220;The punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired&#8221;-  Ezekiel 14:10.</strong></p>
<p>Then there are the false teachers like Robert H Schuller who believes that only 3.4% of the Bible is positive according to his Possiblilty Thinker&#8217;s Bible.  Yet Jeremiah was told by God to <strong>&#8220;Not diminish a word&#8221;- Jeremiah 26:2.</strong>  By his own definition Schuller diminishes 96.6% of the Bible as not being positive enough for him.  In like fashion is Joel Osteen, who carries a Bible but rarely any biblical message.  <strong>&#8220;For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but according to their own desires (Schuller), because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers (Osteen), and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables (TBN Prosperity Gospel)&#8221;- 2 Timothy 4:3-4.</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;There were also false prophets among the people even as there WILL be false teachers AMONG YOU, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies.  And MANY will follow their destructive ways, by whom the way of truth will be blashphemed.  By covetousness they WILL exploit you with deceptive words&#8221;- 2 Peter 2:1-3.</strong>  TBN loves to make merchandise out of you as does the Elijah List.  Paul said, <strong>&#8220;When I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ WITHOUT CHARGE, that I may not ABUSE MY AUTHORITY IN THE GOSPEL&#8221;- 1 Corinthians 9:18.</strong>  When the prosperity gospel preachers seek money by compulsion from you they are abusing their authority in the gospel, yet so <strong>MANY</strong> could care less about that very thing?</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Well they do signs and wonders so they have to be from God!&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Really?  <strong>&#8220;Let no one deceive you by any means.  For that day will not come unless the falling away comes first.  The coming (not the arrival) of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and will all unrighteous DECEPTION among those who perish (the broad and wide way that leads to destruction) because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved.  For this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie&#8221;- 2 Thessalonians 2:3,9-11.</strong>   Are you part of this strong delusion movement?  </p>
<p>I would counsel you all to become biblical Bereans (Acts 17:11) and not fall prey to every knew thing (Acts 17:21).  <strong>&#8220;Beloved, do not believe evey spirit, BUT TEST THE SPIRITS, whether they are of God because MANY false prophets have gone out into the world&#8221;- 1 John 4:1. </strong>  Are the teachers putting forth biblical doctrine or one of their own making?  <strong>&#8220;Woe to the foolish prophets, WHO FOLLOW THEIR OWN SPIRIT, and have seen nothing&#8221;- Ezekiel 13:3.</strong></p>
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		<title>The Sealed Book- Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norris</dc:creator>
		
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&#8220;And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals? And no one in heaven or [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>&#8220;And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals? And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.  So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.</strong></p>
<p><strong>And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints (Revelation 8:3</strong>).</p>
<p><strong>And they sang a new song saying, YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE SCROLL, AND TO OPEN ITS SEALS, FOR YOU WERE SLAIN, AND HAVE REDEEMED US TO GOD BY YOUR BLOOD, OUT OF EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE AND PEOPLE AND NATION, AND HAVE MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS TO OUR GOD, AND WE SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH&#8221;-  Revelation 5:1-10.</strong></p>
<p>How has He made us kings and priests?  <strong>&#8220;And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel&#8221;-  Exodus 19:6.</strong></p>
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		<title>Doyle Davidson&#8217;s Crew Keep Topping Each Other With Blasphemous Statements</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Crane</dc:creator>
		
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Doyle Davidson&#8217;s Crew keeps topping one another with moronic statements.  Chuck posted on Luke Peters two days ago but I must add to what he has said about this young idoit.  Here is what Peters said on his own website and only just recently highlighted his stupid statement in bold.  &#8220;God told [...]]]></description>
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<p>Doyle Davidson&#8217;s Crew keeps topping one another with moronic statements.  Chuck posted on Luke Peters two days ago but I must add to what he has said about this young idoit.  Here is what Peters said on his own website and only just recently highlighted his stupid statement in bold. <strong> &#8220;God told me that there was no more pressing (greater) need for the Body of Christ then for Lisa to come home&#8221;. </strong></p>
<p>You mean to say that there is no greater need for the Body of Christ than for Lisa to return to an adulterous relationship with Doyle Davidson?  <strong>&#8220;You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to Me to the end of the earth&#8221;  Acts 1:8.</strong>  Witnesses of Jesus Christ, not Lisa Staton!  Davidson, showing his acute mental deprivation, linked to Peters site directly.  <strong>&#8220;The Spirit (not Darren Crane) says that in latter times some WILL depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils&#8221;  1 Timothy 4:1.</strong>  Luke Peters has given heed to the seducing spirits of the teachings of Doyle Davidson sanctioning adultery and as such has reduced his teachings to the doctrines of devils.  And, THAT according to the Holy Spirit!  </p>
<p>What Peters claimed in his statement is nothing less than blasphemy!</p>
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		<title>Why Do So MANY People Follow False Teachers?- Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norris</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bible Study]]></category>

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&#8220;An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land.  The prophets prophesy falsely, the priests rule by their own power, and MY PEOPLE LOVE TO HAVE IT SO&#8221;-  Jeremiah 5:30-31.
That verse by Jeremiah could well have been written for the present day church.  Todd Bentley&#8217;s Lakeland Revival has deceived MANY [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>&#8220;An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land.  The prophets prophesy falsely, the priests rule by their own power, and MY PEOPLE LOVE TO HAVE IT SO&#8221;-  Jeremiah 5:30-31.</strong></p>
<p>That verse by Jeremiah could well have been written for the present day church.  Todd Bentley&#8217;s Lakeland Revival has deceived MANY yet all you hear from those <strong>&#8220;MANY&#8221;</strong> are:  </p>
<p><em>&#8220;Touch not mine anointed&#8221;<br />
&#8216;Thou shalt not judge&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Discernment has been missing in action from the church for the longest time and no one seems to care!  In this two part series we will highlight, from the New Testament, verses that deal with this plague that is affecting the <strong>&#8220;MANY&#8221;</strong> that follow false teachers, prophets, and apostles.  Jesus said-</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Enter by the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and MANY who go in by it&#8221;-  Matthew 7:13.</strong>  Todd Bentley offers so many unbiblical principles from his Extreme Prophetic Movement that its just staggering to say the least.  He says you can call down angels that will do your bidding for you.  Where in the Bible does it say that?  The power that was to be used for witnessing that Acts 1:8 declares has taken on a whole new meaning with the Extreme Prophetic Movement.  Yet Jesus would counter that saying, <strong>&#8220;Do NOT rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven&#8221;- Luke 10:20. </strong></p>
<p>When you think of Todd Bentley, Mike Murdock, and Benny Hinn, Jesus would offer counsel such as this:  <strong>&#8220;Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.  MANY will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?  And then I will declare to them, I NEVER KNEW YOU, depart from Me you who practice lawlessness&#8221;-  Matthew 7:21-23.</strong>  Notice the <strong>MANY</strong> connection that I am connecting the dots to in this regard.  Power is being used in the wrong way in the church of today by adding words to the Bible that do not exist there.  </p>
<p>Yet Jesus knew that MANY false teachers were coming such as Doyle Davidson, Paula White, Juanita Bynum, and Joyce Meyer, when He said:  <strong>&#8220;For MANY will come in My name, saying I am the Christ, and will deceive MANY.  Then MANY false prophets will rise up and deceive MANY&#8221;-  Matthew 24:5,11.</strong>  Are you getting the picture here?  It takes <strong>MANY</strong> false prophets to deceive <strong>MANY!</strong>  Each of these false teachers has a measure of truth that is mixed in with the spirit of error.  So how much poison does it take to kill you?  Of the false teachers of His day, Jesus said, <strong>&#8220;TAKE HEED AND BEWARE of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees&#8221;-  Matthew 16:4. </strong>   What did Jesus mean by that?  He was warning them of the DOCTRINE (teachings) of the Pharisees and Sadducees (Matthew 16:12) which is the same leaven that MANY are swallowing today tainted with poison.  But of these false doctrines today many people are ever so UNAWARE of the poison in their pot (2 Kings 4:39).  </p>
<p>The Apostle Paul said something that every pastor of TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) should heed:  <strong>&#8220;We are not, as so MANY, peddling the word of God&#8221;- 2 Corinthians 2:17. </strong> Here the many refers to the pastors of TBN that are adulterating the word of God for gain!  They are making merchandise out of YOU!  And while YOU embrace them as being &#8220;the anointed of God&#8221; they are instead as Philippians 3:18-19 describe:  <strong>&#8220;For MANY walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the ENEMIES of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is their shame- Who set their mind on earthly things&#8221;.</strong>  As for Paul&#8217;s weeping in this regard, hear now these words from Acts 20:29-31.  <strong>&#8220;After my departure savage wolves will come in AMONG YOU, not sparing the flock.  Also from AMONG YOURSELVES men will rise up speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples AFTER THEMSELVES.  For three years I did not cease to WARN you night and day with tears&#8221;.</strong></p>
<p>Perverse things are those things not recorded in the Bible that many false teachers use and all in the form of extra-biblical revelation.  More in Part Two.</p>
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		<title>Water of Life South Bend Smoke Filled Room Thanks to Carter, Bybee, and Currier!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Crane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Currier]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Carter]]></category>

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No, this isn&#8217;t the glory of the Lord filling the South Bend, Water of Life, church, but rather the smoke from the cigerettes of Michael Carter, Terry Bybee, and Kathryn Currier.  How in the world can they expect anyone from that church to overcome anything when their leadership can&#8217;t even overcome their smoking habits? [...]]]></description>
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<p>No, this isn&#8217;t the glory of the Lord filling the South Bend, Water of Life, church, but rather the smoke from the cigerettes of Michael Carter, Terry Bybee, and Kathryn Currier.  How in the world can they expect anyone from that church to overcome anything when their leadership can&#8217;t even overcome their smoking habits?  It&#8217;s obvious that their leader, Doyle Davidson, can&#8217;t overcome abiding at the vine by way of wine either.  </p>
<p>Davidson is also bragging about delivering people from demons when he can&#8217;t even rid himself of his demonic spirits.  I would think that those at any of the Water of Life churches should be questioning their leadership over the witchcraft that has their leaders bound to smoking and drinking spirits. <strong> &#8220;Physician, heal thyself&#8221;  Luke 4:23.</strong></p>
<p>It stands to reason if the leadership can&#8217;t overcome their own demonic spirits how can they help others?  Yet no one seems to question this?  <strong>&#8220;Whoever is born of God overcomes the world.  And this is the victory that has overcome the world- Our faith&#8221;  1 John 5:4-5.</strong>  It would seem that the faith of the leadership of Water of Faith lack the faith to believe they can overcome smoking.  Again, if they can&#8217;t help themselves how can they help any of those at Water of Life?  </p>
<p>It is obvious that Davidson is bound by alcohol and that is why he sees red dragons all the time. <strong> &#8220;Your eyes will see strange things and your mouth will utter perverse things&#8221;  Proverbs 23:33.</strong>  <strong>&#8220;Wine is a mocker and whoever is led astray by it is not wise&#8221;  Proverbs 20:1.</strong>  If Davidson is then, not wise, why are all you Water of Lifers following him blindly?  </p>
<p>As for Carter, Bybee, and Currier, <strong>&#8220;I discipline my body and bring it under subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified&#8221;  1 Corinthians 9:27.</strong>  Those three aren&#8217;t disciplining their bodies, they&#8217;re destroying them from within!  Are Carter, Bybee, and Currier the temples of the living God (2 Corinthians 6:16)?  If so then they are smoky temples!  <strong>&#8220;Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God&#8221;  2 Corinthians 7:1.</strong></p>
<p>Until the Water of Life leadership does that they have no busines leading others when they can&#8217;t even deliver themselves from the demonic spirits that hold them quite captive.  No, overcomers is NOT a word that describes the churches of Water of Life.  Not even close!</p>
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		<title>The Throne of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Swanson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Revelation]]></category>

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&#8220;After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this&#8221; Revelation 4:1.
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<p><strong>&#8220;After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this&#8221; Revelation 4:1.</strong></p>
<p>Is this referring to the rapture of the church as many today believe. I personally think not for the Lord was speaking directly to John. Verse two provides that information.   <strong>&#8220;Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold a throne set in heaven and One sat on the throne&#8221; Revelation 4:2.</strong> John was in the Spirit and he was the one that the Lord told to <strong>&#8220;Come up here!&#8221; </strong>  John, not the church.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were 24 thrones, and on the thrones I saw 24 elders sitting, clothed in white robes, and they had crowns of gold on their heads.  And from the throne proceded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. And there were 7 lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back&#8221; Revelation 4:3-6.</strong>  A lot of what is described here is similar to what is spoken of in Ezekiel 1. You might want to check out the similarities.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;The first living creature (Ezekiel 1:10) was like a lion, the second living creature like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night saying: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME.  Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the 24 elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne saying, YOU ARE WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER, FOR YOU CREATED ALL THINGS, AND BY YOUR WILL THEY EXIST AND WERE CREATED&#8221; Revelation 4:7-11</strong>.</p>
<p>What a wonderful scene that must be to behold and it may well be that I will be observing that very scene some day soon as will all true believers in Christ.  Between Dave Norris, Darren Crane, and myself, our ministry will be bringing you portions of the Book of Revelation over the coming weeks.  I look forward to it and I hope you do too!</p>
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		<title>A Walk In The Wilderness- A Must Read!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Lumbley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lumbley Library]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Repentance]]></category>

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God established His covenant in the Old Testament with the nation of Israel, The physical descendants of Abraham. Today, God’s covenant is with the church, the spiritual descendants of Abraham.
Everything that happened to O.T. Israel was recorded as an example to the new covenant people, the church. All that happened to Israel in the physical [...]]]></description>
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<p>God established His covenant in the Old Testament with the nation of Israel, The physical descendants of Abraham. Today, God’s covenant is with the church, the spiritual descendants of Abraham.</p>
<p>Everything that happened to O.T. Israel was recorded as an example to the new covenant people, the church. All that happened to Israel in the physical realm will happen to the church in the spiritual realm. </p>
<p>For example, the children of Israel were brought out of bondage in Egypt, and spent 40 years in the wilderness. For the church, Egypt represents the world, the world system, the world’s way of doing things without dependence on God.</p>
<p>After coming out of Egypt, Israel spent 40 years in the wilderness. It was in the wilderness that they learned to trust God to meet all their needs. Many of those who came out of Egypt failed to learn that lesson and died in the wilderness, never entering into that promised land. </p>
<p>Likewise, as new covenant believers, God takes us out of the world (Egypt) and allows us a time of grace during which we are expected to learn to rely on Him. When you were first born again you were a babe in Christ. You still had many of the ways of the world (Egypt) in you. Paul wrote to the church in Corinth that they were still babes (1 Cor 3:1). He said that they were still on milk and were not mature enough yet for solid food. Paul’s job as an apostle was to help bring God’s people to maturity. That is the job of all apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. </p>
<p>Many in the church today have the wrong idea about the <strong>wilderness experience</strong>. To most, the wilderness represents struggle and lack. Today you hear many people talk about going through the wilderness when they are facing lack of finances, sickness, marriage problems and that sort of thing. This is not true. </p>
<p>Even though the children of Israel complained in the wilderness, they lacked nothing. All their needs were met. God fed them and gave them water. They had dwelling places, their clothes never wore out and the only time they got sick was when they sinned and God sent sickness to chastise them. The purpose of the wilderness experience is to separate you from the world and teach you to depend on God.</p>
<p>The author of Hebrews writes in chapter 6 that it was time to leave the basic principles of the doctrines of Christ and go on toward perfection. This is when our wilderness experience should end and we are ready to enter into and possess our promised land.    </p>
<p>Again, most do not have an accurate understanding of what it means to enter into the promised land. Some of you seem to think that we won’t enter the promised land until we get to heaven. You see the promised land as a time of peace and prosperity, a time when we have no more struggles or problems. Nothing could be further from the truth. </p>
<p>The children of Israel had to fight to enter into and posses their promised land. Or rather I should say that they had to learn to obey God so that He would go before them to drive out the inhabitants of the land. When they obeyed God and did exactly what He said, their enemies were defeated. But when they disobeyed, they always suffered defeat. </p>
<p>In the wilderness we learn to trust God just like a newborn baby trusts his parents. In the promised land we learn to obey God so that our enemies will be defeated. </p>
<p>Just like O.T. Israel, our promised land is inhabited by enemies. We must drive them out one by one so that eventually we will fully posses it. The difference is that in the O.T. the promised land was a physical land. In the new covenant, the land is spiritual. The land we must conquer is in our own wicked hearts. </p>
<p><strong>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21</strong></p>
<p>Before Israel could posses the land promised to them, they had to drive out the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.  God told them to utterly destroy each one of these enemies and He said if they didn’t, the ones that remain will be <strong>“pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell” (Num 33:55).</strong></p>
<p>Many people in the church struggle today because they haven’t understood that entering into the promised land is a battle. They haven’t been taught that we must obey God fully in order to drive out our enemies. Because they don’t obey God, their promised land is still inhabited by enemies. Because they don’t utterly destroy their enemies, the ones who remain cause them problems all their lives. </p>
<p>Who are these enemies? They are the works of the flesh. When we were in bondage to Egypt we depended on our flesh, our own abilities for everything. When we depend on our own ability we are guilty of all the works of the flesh listed in Galatians 5:19-21. </p>
<p>Many people come into the church <strong>and never learn to crucify the flesh</strong>. To crucify the flesh means to depend less and less on our own abilities and more and more on Gods ability. When we obey God we are led by His Spirit. As we are led by His Spirit, He reveals these enemies to us one by one. As He reveals them we must decide to repent and trust in Him in that area of our lives. Each time we do this we conquer an enemy. As we conquer each enemy we are ready to move on to the next one just like the children of Israel conquered one city at a time before moving on to the next one.</p>
<p>Do you find yourself facing the same problem over and over in life?  Even though the circumstances may differ, do you find yourself running into the same wall time after time? When this happens do you seek God and look for the real source of the problem, or do you seek to justify yourself and avoid facing the truth. </p>
<p>Most people seek to justify themselves. They think that the problem is always someone else’s fault. They think that if they just change the circumstances everything will be all right. Are you having a problem in your marriage? No problem, just get a divorce and that will solve the problem. Do you have a problem in your job? That’s easy, just get another job. Things will surely be better if you just leave the problem behind. </p>
<p>Of course you eventually will run into the same wall again. Changing the scenery never solves the problem because wherever you go, you take the problem with you. You will never be able to move past this problem until you face it honestly and allow God to deal with it from your heart. </p>
<p>This is true repentance. To allow God to reveal the sin in your own heart. To acknowledge it, to turn from it, and to obey God in order to overcome it.  This can be painful. You may have to admit your faults to someone else and ask their forgiveness. You may have to get rid of some things you like and want to hold on to. This is the battle. This is how we enter into our promised land.   </p>
<p>Jesus began His ministry by saying:</p>
<p><strong>….The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. Mark 1:14</strong></p>
<p>The kingdom of God is our promised land. To enter <strong>we must first repent</strong>. That means to turn from, to change directions, it is an act of will. </p>
<p>Then we must believe. To believe doesn’t just mean to acknowledge. It means to trust in, rely on, adhere to. It means to commit to. </p>
<p>The gospel is defined in 1 Cor 15 as the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul calls this the power of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16). </p>
<p>Salvation means more than just make it to heaven. You need salvation every day. You need salvation from every enemy that currently inhabits your promised land.</p>
<p>This is how we defeat our enemies. We repent from trusting in our own ways and abilities. We trust in and commit to the gospel which is the power of God. Salvation comes as each enemy is defeated</p>
<p>I urge you today, by the Spirit of the Living God to take that first step across the Jordan. Begin to enter into your promised land. Allow God to reveal your enemies to you. As each is revealed, obey God so that He can defeat it. <strong>Stop trusting in your ways and your abilities</strong>. You do your part and God will do His. Your part is to trust and obey God. He will then go before you and drive out those enemies one by one.  </p>
<p>And Moses said unto the people, <strong>Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. Ex 14:13-</strong></p>
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		<title>A Dove Responds to Luke Peters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Swanson</dc:creator>
		
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&#8220;Hey, Luke? You look like a pretty nice guy so why are you following that Birdbrain, Doyle Davidson? I mean the guy talks to red dragons after a little red eye? Then he turns around and twists Scripture from Jeremiah to make it appear as if God sanctions his adulterous relationship with Lisa and makes [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>&#8220;Hey, Luke? You look like a pretty nice guy so why are you following that Birdbrain, Doyle Davidson? I mean the guy talks to red dragons after a little red eye? Then he turns around and twists Scripture from Jeremiah to make it appear as if God sanctions his adulterous relationship with Lisa and makes you think the same thing. Luke, Davidson </em><strong>&#8220;Is like a silly dove, without sense&#8221; Hosea 7:11.</strong></p>
<p><em>Luke, my comments will be in italics and I am going to respond to your testimony today with a little bird sense to your nonsense.</em></p>
<p>A Prayer: Father let your word (Lisa is Doyle&#8217;s wife) have free course be glorified. That they (Doyle &amp; Lisa) be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men (JR, Bill. spm). <em>Hey, Luke? SPM is a proper name and should be capitalized but since Doyle frowns on education, I guess I can see why a birdbrain like you wouldn&#8217;t know that. Guys like you give us birds a bad name.</em></p>
<p>July 21, 2008: On March 11, 2008 during Terry Mai&#8217;s 8:00 pm Tuesday broadcast, I was worshipping God and trying to overcome a situation with my (at that time unborn) 3rd son, and God spoke something very profound to me. The doctor that was overseeing my wife had some concenrs about her condition that could potentially be dangerous. I belived that this was a lie of the devil and over the past week or so I would attack this lie devil during worship and do everything that I new how to do to overcome and see God work in this situation. <em>Hey, Luke? your namesake was also a physician to Paul. He was a real apostle unlike the birdbrain you follow. You are the one following a lie devil who has pulled the wool over your eyes.</em></p>
<p>On this particular evening during worship, while I was seeking God for what to do about my son, God told me that there was no more pressing (greater) need for the Body of Christ then for Lisa to come home and that he had my son. I knew right then that I needed to be praying for Lisa to come home. <em>Hey, Luke? Lisa will not be coming home to roost with Davidson anymore than I will be flying to Israel this year. My wings could never take the strain. Come to think of it, I don&#8217;t believe that Doyle flew to Israel this year either/ I wonder what strained him? Could it be the truth?</em></p>
<p>On March 18, 2008 God caused our third son to be born, and he was fine. The condition that they were so worried about became nothing. The following day a witch (nurse) pronounced jaundice on him, he had to stay at the hospital a extra day after my wife was discharged. <em>Hey, Luke, if you distrust doctors so much why was your wife in the hospital to begin with? Why did you yourself not deliver your baby at home? It seems to me as though you were allowing witchcraft by allowing your wife to go to the hospital in the first place? What does that make you, a warlock?</em></p>
<p>He had little improvement over the next day or so. On March 22nd, I posted the prayer above, we went to the doctor the two days later and he had improved enough that we did not have to go back. God was showing me that what he said was true, he had my son, I need to obey hime and be praying for Lisa to come home. <em>Hey, Luke, over the course of your testimony I have come to believe that you are as much of a birdbrain as your mentor, Davidson!</em></p>
<p>This morning during the first broadcast , Doyle prayed a powerful prayer and God manifested himself with a baby white-winged dove. <em>Hey, Luke, if Doyle had spoke to his red dragon that morning you would have believed that too. What did Jesus say about signs?</em> <strong>&#8220;A wicked and adulterous generation seek after a sign&#8221; Matthew 16:4. </strong><em>Jesus got that adulterous part right about Doyle and you too, I&#8217;m afraid.</em></p>
<p>During the first hour this evening I was reflecting on this and God reminded me of what he told me about Lisa coming home and He also reminded me of the postings that Doyle had done by the Spirit of God on &#8220;Lisa is in Prison, But She Will Be Delivered&#8221; and &#8220;Quench not the Spirit&#8221;. <em>Hey, Luke, did Lisa fly to Israel with Doyle in June as he prophesied? </em>&#8220;<strong>How shall we know the word which the Lord has NOT spoken? When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has NOT spoken, the prophet has spoken it presumptously&#8221; Deuteronomy 18:21-22.</strong> <strong>&#8220;You say, the Lord says, but I have not spoken. Because you have spoken nonsense (Hosea 7:11) and envisioned lies, indeed I am AGAINST you, says the Lord&#8221; Ezekiel 13:7-8.</strong> <em>By the way Luke, has that church on the other side of Plano that Doyle prophesied about several years ago ever made it into existence?</em></p>
<p>I was immediatly convicted on my unbelief in what God had instructed me to do, Thank God for his mercy. I knew again that we all need to be praying for Lisa to come home, there is no greater need in the Body of Christ that this. <em>Hey, Luke, you ARE a birdbrain if you believe that there is no greater need in the Body of Christ than that! I guess birds of a feather are birdbrains together after all.</em></p>
<p>Now I am convniced. He that hath ears to hear let him hear what the Spirit of God is saying. <em>Hey, Luke, it is not the spirit of God that speaks through Doyle, but his &#8220;own&#8221; spirit.</em> <strong>&#8220;Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing&#8221; Ezekiel 13:3.</strong> <em>Imagine, that there is no greater need in the Body of Christ than to support an adulterous relationship with prayer? Yes, Luke, Hosea 7:11 now applies to you as well as to your chief birdbrain, Davidson. Luke </em><strong>&#8220;Is like a silly dove, without sense&#8221;.</strong></p>
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		<title>Message to Laodicea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norris</dc:creator>
		
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&#8220;And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of God&#8221;-   Revelation 3:14.  How about a connection point?  &#8220;He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation&#8221;-  Colossians 1:15.
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<p><strong>&#8220;And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of God&#8221;-   Revelation 3:14.</strong>  How about a connection point?  <strong>&#8220;He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation&#8221;-  Colossians 1:15.</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot, so then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew (vomit) you out of My mouth. Because you say I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing- and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked&#8221;-  Revelation 3:15-17.</strong>  Ephraim said something similar in Hosea 12:8 by implying that they had become rich and had found wealth for themself. He felt that in all his labors that no one could find any iniquity in him that was sin. He would fit in right nice in Revelation 3:17.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire that you may be rich, and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see&#8221;-  Revelation 3:18.</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;As many as I love, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me&#8221;-  Revelation 3:19-20.  &#8220;If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him&#8221;-  John 14:24.</strong>  What a wonderful statement of truth!</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches&#8221;-  Revelation 3:21-22.</strong></p>
<p>Over the coming days our ministry team will be bringing you segments of the Book of Revelation until it is completed.</p>
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