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Pastor Kerry Wilson

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• We have been ministering on the verse found
in Ephesians 1.10, “ That in the dispensation
of the fulness of time that He might gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which
are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in
him:
• We have endeavored to understand that
“unity “ is not a connotation word.
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• It has been said that there are many ladders
to Christ, but only one ladder to heaven. We
all have our witness and testimony of “how
Jesus found us”, we were lost. However life
after being born again becomes a journey.
• This journey has a destination, it is how we
travel and follow the directions to this
destination that dictate our destiny.
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• We must move by self sacrifice and self denial to this place
of coming under the authority of Christ. This will insure that
are personal agendas, accomplishments and accolades will
be for not only the prophetical fulfillment of the
aforementioned Ephesians 1.10, but also the prayer of
Jesus in John 17
• Often we use these words like self denial, self sacrifice,
crucify, mortify and a sense of dread overwhelms us. We
feel that we are robbed of something good from this life.
The dilemma of the christian life is not the words of Jesus
but being caught in the middle. Our struggle lay in our
being trapped in our minds about the abundant life, the
fullness of the inheritance of the saints, the hope of His
calling and the exceeding greatness of His power.
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• In short, our very faith, we live in a generation
where God must be real and a reality to you
personally for you to continue on and in this
journey.
• You must realize that there is an adversary, it
is real and you can’t perceive his wiles without
a real attachment to the things of heaven.
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• We spent a few weeks on Interpretation, and
have started spiritual confusion, and want to
get into the autonomy of man. These final
sermons are all related to unity in the area of
“Truth”.
• Here are some facts
• 1. No person wants to be deceived
• 2. How do I keep myself from deception?
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• 3. You must “love” the truth
• 4. We are all at different places in our walk with God,
however revelation is available for those who seek his
face. This is why we currently see differentiations in
people beliefs, liberties and faith.
• 5. Just as natural is to supernatural, so is the word of
God and revelation. They are separate but inseparable.
You must remember as we have been conditioned in
the area of epistemology or what we can truly know,
we have allowed our culture to alleviate the area of
revelation or that which can’t be explained.
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• 6. Revelation is the supernatural part of the Word
of God.
• 7. You have to walk in the revelation that you
have in order to receive more. Hebrews 6.1-6
• 8. God is not constricted by time as we are, His
program is an eternal plan and has been plugged
into generations at His command.
• 9. We are in the last days, I can’t and won’t
measure days, because a day is 24 hours to me,
but the prophetic fulfillment of the Word tells me
we are approaching the end of the church age.
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• 10. Lucifer always imitates or has a program that
runs parallel with the Word of God and the
eternal plan of God.
• 1 Corinthians 13.8-11 “ Charity never faileth: but
whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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• Here is a prophecy concerning the eternal plan of
God and how that it is in stages.
• Isaiah 28. 9 “ Whom shall he teach knowledge?
And whom shall he make to understand doctrine?
Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn
from the breasts. For precept must be upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, and there a little: for
with stammering lips and another tongue will he
speak to this people.”
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God Eternal Plan
• Moses
• Christ
• True Unity, as represented by
True Diversity
• Reformation ( Begins a new
move of God based on
prophecy)
• Charismatic Movement
(Movement based on dead
religion and orthodoxy of the
church
• Final Reformation which
always leads to revival
Lucifer’s Imitation or Confusion
• Jannes and Jambres
• Antichrist
• False Ecumenical Movement
• Enlightenment (Man begins to
question knowledge it’s
limitations and origin)
• Hippies rebellion against
authority and injustice
• Autonomous man is born and
truth becomes relative
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Results of Enlightenment
• The modern philosophical view had
transformed God into an alienated external
God. Consequently why have a God at all, the
thought pattern became that “people had
projected their own human qualities onto an
imaginary being that was merely a reflection
of themselves. So man’s belief in God is
nothing other than his belief in himself… In his
God he reveres and loves nothing other than
his own being”.
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• Nietzsche (1844-1900)believed and taught that
human beings could counter the danger of
nihilism by making themselves divine. They must
become the new absolute and take the place of
God. The God of the external could be born
within the human spirit (Ubermensch) or
superman and would provide the universe with
ultimate meaning. To arrive at this we must rebel
against the christian God who had marked the
limit of human aspiration, estranged us from our
bodies and passions, and enfeebled us with the
ideal of compassion.
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• Freud ( 1856-1939) who was a student of
Nietzsche believed and taught that religion
was a neurosis that bordered on insanity.” A
desire for or from God was based on our
infant stage of helplessness and our yearning
for a protector; it reflected the child’s passion
for justice and fairness and his longing for life
to continue forever.”
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• The Gay Science (1882) this magazine told the
story of a madman who was crying, “I seek
God”, the gainsayers ask if God had run away
or emigrated. “ Where has God gone?” the
madman demanded. We have killed him---
you and I , we are all his murderers!
• The deceptive nature of our enemy was quite
sure he had struck a blow to the belief and
practice of worship of God.
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• This revival, identified by unity and community
brings the power of God and the church
experiences an inflow with Christ as the center.
• Persecution perfects the church by way of
witness and a transition takes place where we
become more attached to heaven than to this
earth
• The Rapture of the Church brings the end of the
Church age and we finally understand.