PREFACE
It bothers me for preachers to give a sermon and then
say that this sermon is the answer to all of your
problems. Then for the preacher to do the same thing
next week or week after week. There is no one answer
to the Christian life. This lesson is what God has
shown us about the Christian life; it is an overview.
We are not completely living this life but we are
improving as time goes by. I don't want to bring you
into condemnation. You need to realize that it takes
time to change your life; it actually takes years. God
is a God of Restoration and you will spend your whole
life being restored. I believe that if we were
completely restored, we would be like Adam and Eve;
able to do anything that God wants us to do. Our goal
is to be more like JESUS CHRIST realizing that we will
never be another JESUS CHRIST.
GENERAL
To live the whole Christian life means to obey the
whole Bible. It means that every aspect of our lives
must be lined up with the precepts of the Bible. This
includes the mental, physical, spiritual and material
parts of our lives. The Bible tells us how to live in
every area of our lives. God is not out-of-date; He
didn't forget anything in the Bible for our modern
age.
MENTAL
We must discipline our mind, will and emotions. We
learn to control our thinking the same way we control
our physical body. The physical is told what to do;
so, the brain is also told what to think by the
spirit. The Holy Spirit leads our spirit which leads
our soul which leads our body. The passive mind is an
empty vessel inviting demons to have their way.
PHYSICAL
We must take care of our physical body. We should not
abuse it by food, drink, drugs, etc. that we put into
the body. We should not sin against the body by
committing sexual sin. The body needs some physical
exercise but not before spiritual exercise. The body
is the temple of the Holy Spirit and should be a place
where the Holy Spirit would want to live.
SPIRITUAL
We must feed the spiritual man within us. This
requires living the Christian life. That requires
reading the Bible, fasting, praying, fellowship with
other Christians and other Christian activities. After
salvation, it includes obtaining the Baptism in the
Holy Spirit, learning about divine healing and divine
health, DELIVERANCE and casting out demons, and
prosperity for all areas of our life.
MATERIAL
We must learn that God is our source who will supply
all of our needs. We learn to look to God rather than
to ourselves or to man. We learn to have faith and
trust in God. We will prosper mentally, physically,
spiritually and even materially. Remember that the
love of money is the root of all evil.
SALVATION,
BAPTISM IN HOLY SPIRIT, HEALING, DELIVERANCE AND
PROSPERITY
Learn how to lead people to salvation and the Baptism
in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in
other TONGUES. Learn how to pray for healing and how
to cast out demons. Learn how to have prosperity in
every area of your life; you will prosper as your
spirit prospers.
SPIRIT, SOUL
AND BODY
We are a spirit that has a body and a soul.
The spirit and soul reside in the body which is a
temporary house. Our spirit and soul will be with us
in Heaven. The order of importance is spirit first,
soul second and body last.
GOD, FAMILY
AND OCCUPATION
The order of importance is God first, family
second and occupation last. Most of my life was spent
in the reverse order: occupation first, family second
and God last. If you put God first in your life, He
will help you to work with you to work out the
remainder of your life (family, occupation, etc.) so
that everything will work together for the Glory of
God and to your benefit.
SHORTCUTS TO
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
There are no excuses in the Bible. There are
no shortcuts to the whole Christian life. You must
work to live the Christian life. It is not a passive,
spectator sport of watching others do your work. You
must work at being a good mate, a good parent, a good
child and a good Christian all of your life. God does
not honor lazy Christians.
BATTLE
AGAINST EVIL
Satan is good at his job of being evil. He
works twenty-four hours a day at destroying you. His
demons never rest. You need to be as good at being a
Christian as Satan is good at being evil. You will
battle evil until you die. Learn to be a good soldier
for the Lord.
CHARISMATIC
WITCHCRAFT
You must learn to follow God and not man.
Don't fall into the trap of idolizing your leader. You
must be free from man so that you can do what God
wants in your life.
PROMISES IN
THE BIBLE
There are many promises to Christians in the
Bible. However, for every promise there is a
condition. You will not receive the promise if you do
not fulfill the condition. We want to live a
haphazard, sinful Christian life and yet receive all
of the blessings from God. It won't work; God is not
mocked.
BLESSINGS
AND CURSES
There is a blessing for every verse in the
Bible that you obey. There is a curse for every verse
in the Bible that you disobey. If you obey half of the
Bible, you are half blessed and half cursed. Decide to
follow the whole Bible, not just a selected part of
it.
SIN IN YOUR
LIFE
If you have sin in your life, you have opened
the door for Satan and his demons to attack you, your
family and your church. Sin is a crack in your armor
whether known or unknown to you. You or your ancestors
have invited Satan to come into your life and work
havoc.
DEMONS AND
CURSES IN YOUR LIFE
You must systematically work at riding
yourself of curses and demons. It is much easier to
live without your demons than with your demons. It is
easier to live with the demons on the outside than on
the inside of the body. Christians have many curses
and demons, and must work over an extended period of
time to rid themselves of these. What the church needs
more than anything else is DELIVERANCE. They will
never win the battle with Satan without DELIVERANCE.
We need to cast out demons as a natural part of our
Christian life.
SATAN'S
MASTER PLAN TO DESTROY THE HUMAN RACE
Satan first wants you to get rejected. Then
he causes you to become bitter by having
unforgiveness. Finally he leads you into rebellion.
You are then programmed to go into many other demonic
activities such as sexual sin to gain love that you
didn't receive as a child.
REJECTION,
ROOT OF BITTERNESS, REBELLION AND UNFORGIVENESS
These three families, "The Three R's", of
demons are the root causes of most of our problems as
Christians. We must work to cleanse our lives of all
rejection, bitterness and rebellion so that we are not
controlled in any way by these emotions and reactions.
Unforgiveness is very detrimental to our lives. We
must forgive everyone who has done anything to us -
actual or imagined. Hate, vengeance, envy and strife
have no part in our lives.
CONSCIOUS
AND SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
You must deal with why you consciously do
things that are displeasing to God. You must deal with
why you do things subconsciously without active
thought on your part. You must check every area of
your live that does not glorify JESUS, further the
Kingdom of God, please the Holy Spirit within you,
line up with the Bible, and make good sense. Your mind
will be slowly restored as you follow the Bible and
walk the Christian walk.
CLEANING
YOUR HOME AND YOUR PERSON
You must clean your home and your person
(body) of cursed objects. If you have cursed objects,
you become cursed and you will have demons living with
you. They don't just come to live in your home or on
your person, they come to torment you and your family.
MASS
DELIVERANCE, INDIVIDUAL DELIVERANCE, TEACHING AND
COUNSELING
We need mass and individual DELIVERANCE to rid
ourselves of curses and demons. We need teaching and
counseling to learn to discipline our minds and
bodies. We need plenty of DELIVERANCE and teaching; it
should be about one third of our church services.
MAINTAINING
DELIVERANCE AND CHRISTIANITY
When you receive DELIVERANCE, you must fight
to maintain it by changing your way of thinking and
acting. You maintain your Christianity by continuing
to live the Christian life. If you are not going
forward with JESUS, you are going backwards with
Satan. You must fight to discipline your soul and
body. We can't just cast out your demons and you will
live happily ever after. Start testifying about your
DELIVERANCE; it will strengthen you.
DISCIPLINE
FOR MIND AND BODY
Your mind must be disciplined so that it will
think properly in accordance with the Bible. You must
learn to act according to God rather than react
according to Satan when presented with problems. You
must discipline your body by getting proper sleep,
exercise and food. You need sufficient rest for
recuperation, physical exercises to keep the body
working properly and the right food to sustain the
body. You can sleep too much or too little. Lack of
exercise will allow the body to deteriorate. Eat the
right food and keep your body trim, not overweight.
LEARN ABOUT
THE REAL ENEMY
You must educate yourself about Satan and his
kingdom of evil so that you are not destroyed by
ignorance about the wiles of Satan. You need to read
and study to show yourself approved as a workman for
God. Find out what the Bible has to say about evil;
don't just study the Love of God and His Promises to
you. Don't fall into traps of the occult, false
religions and other demonic practices such as certain
holidays. Learn to see the forces of evil working in
the lives of those people God tells us about in the
Bible. The Bible contains much scripture about
DELIVERANCE and demonic activity. We have written a
"DELIVERANCE Manual" to teach people about the enemy.
DEALING WITH
THE REALITY OF LIFE
God is total reality; there is no fantasy or
play acting in God. There is no unreality in the
Bible. Christians should not deal in any spiritual
fantasy. Fantasy is very simply a lie from Satan who
is the father of lies.
DIVINE
HEALING AND DIVINE HEALTH
It is wonderful that God will heal our bodies
supernaturally by miracles or over a period of time.
However, we need to learn to walk in divine health as
a normal part of our lives. To walk in divine health
requires taking care of our bodies and walking
blameless before God. Drunkenness and gluttony are the
same in the Sight of God. Demonic sex can destroy our
bodies and take us to Hell.
BODY AND
MIND DELIVERED AND HEALED
You need your body free from diseases and
your mind free from demonic emotions. To get free, you
must pray that God will heal you, and you cast out the
demons that control your emotions and diseases in your
body. Healing and DELIVERANCE go hand-in-hand. Many
times people do not get healed by prayer because they
need their demons cast out. Medicine taken to cure the
body is all right if you do not have faith in God to
heal you supernaturally.
DELIVERANCE
FOR MIND AND BODY
You must deal with the areas of curses, soul
ties, occult, false religions and cursed objects to
get free. Curses and soul ties must be broken. Occult
and false religious ties must be severed. Cursed
objects must be destroyed. Then the demons must be
cast out. Finally, you must discipline your life so
that the demons will not come back into you.
PSYCHIATRISTS,
PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND MENTAL
INSTITUTIONS
There is no need for the whole profession of treating
the mind in the Christian world; the heathen have no
other source than this profession. The Bible clearly
has made provisions for taking care of the mind
without drugs. A Christian can deliver and counsel
other Christians far more effectively than any heathen
worker in the mental field of medicine. Drugs for the
mind is a form of sorcery used to control the demons
in the mind; do not take these medicines.
INFIRMITY,
WEAKNESS, SICKNESS AND DISEASE
Infirmities from weakness to terminal
diseases can come from your ancestors; they are
transmitted by demons through the blood line.
Infirmities can come in through your sins. Arthritis
and cancer can come in through unforgiveness and
bitterness. You must repent and get right with God,
break the curses on you by your ancestors and cast out
the demons.
FAMILY
Everyone in the family needs DELIVERANCE. You
need to learn to pray for each other and your
children. Don't wait for the pastor to do it or it
will never get done. The Bible has much scripture
about how the godly family should be and the right
relationship of the family to God. One of the key
areas is to be thankful for what we have and what God
is doing in our lives. We must come out of sin and
death into holiness and life. It requires a lot of
work to be a good homemaker: husband, wife or
children.