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CHRIST
THE
HEALER
GOSPEL
CHURCH
136
Ave
FS
(across
from
Giant
Tiger
on
21
st)
Phone:
477-0200
www.mswm.org
"For
people
of
all
Faith,
Races
&
Religions
-
Pastor
Max
Solbrekken,
D.D.,
Rev.
Gary
Littlepine
SCHEDULE
OF
SERVICES
Wednesday
7:00
pm
Saturday
7:00
pm
Sunday
10:30
am
&
6:30
pm
CRY OF HIS
COMING December
2009
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MAX SOLBREKKEN WORLD MISSION
Box 44220 RPO Garside, Edmonton, AB T5V 1N6
Website: www.mswm.org — Tel: 780-460-8444
December, 2009
Dear Partner in the Gospel:
I greet you in Jesus’
name!
Dark clouds are forming on the horizon of this
world. The ‘enemies
of
the cross’ are
gathering! Satan knows
he has but a short time! How
much longer the Church has to preach the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, we do not know.
Our duty is to proclaim God’s
Word! We must ‘never
surrender’ or
compromise the gospel of Jesus
Christ in any way!
The Lord
is duty bound to keep His Word. Satan is duty
bound to obey God’s servants who speak in His name. We are
duty bound to serve Jesus Christ to the best of our ability
until
the ‘Coming of Christ’ or the hour of our death!”
GOD
IS GIVING US THE VICTORY!
Wayne Pratt and
his wife attended our recent Abbotsford crusade. In
1976 he
was a heavy drinking, carousing and cheating husband who tried
repeatedly to stop his destructive lifestyle, but
could not. He
testified that he would often wake up in hotel rooms with
women he did not even recognize.
One Sunday morning he turned on the TV and
heard my message from Romans on the power of God to save sinners and
that led to his conversion to Jesus Christ. Weeping, he shouted,
"Brother
Max, you saved my life!"
Dr. David Rathnam of
the New Hope Christian
Centre in Abbotsford
reported that a number of people were healed
there on Nov. 1, 2009.
Since founding Christ
the Healer Gospel Church in
Saskatoon, Jesus has done many wonderful things: Earl
Dick received healing
from serious emphysema; Doris
Ben was healed of a
hiatus hernia; Joyce Temple
healed
of 5 tumours; Linda
Mandes was healed of
cancer and Wayne Brugger delivered
from severe alcoholism!
When I returned from powerful crusades in
Sudan,
Egypt and Europe in
2007,
God called us here and the Assembly is already a strong
force for God!
A special ‘thank you’ to those who have
prayed for our
daughter Betty. We are not giving up. Please
continue to pray for
and her family!
And thanks to those who have given to help us
build the New Addition,
So far, every bill has been paid. The total
cost will be about $75,000.
If you would like to be a part of this
historical work of God, please write
us with your investment in souls!
Your servant for Jesus’ sake,
Pastor
Max Solbrekken
A Friend of JESUS
By Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D
“He came to
earth, the promise to fulfill, A rugged cross
He bore up Calvary’s Hill. And for my sins
He cried, “Father forgive.” Born to die,
that I might live. Born to die, a cruel
cross to bear, Born to die, His ever lasting
love to share
Between two
thieves He bowed His head and cried, “It’s
finished now, I came to die”
Jesus said: “Ye
are My friends, if ye do
whatsoever I command you. Henceforth
I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his
lord doeth: but
I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard
of My Father I have made known unto you.”
(John 15: 14-15) The Bible
says: “For it became Him, for Whom are all things, and by Whom
are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the
CAPTAIN of
their salvation perfect through sufferings.”
In order to be the
perfect sacrifice for our sins, Jesus
had to live a perfect
life as a man, even though
He was tempted and tested as we are! “For
both He that
sanctifieth and they who
are sanctified are all of one: for
which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Saying, I will declare Thy name
unto My brethren…And
again, I will put My trust in Him.
And again, Behold I and the children
which God hath given
Me…” (Heb.2: 10-13). The
Scriptures states that He is not ashamed to be our
elder brother, since
He was made flesh in order to shed His pure and holy blood for the
forgiveness of our sins and our
Eternal Salvation! (Phil.2: 5-11)
SAVIOUR,
MASTER & LORD!
You may ask:
“Is Jesus not our Saviour, Master and Lord? How then, can
He also be our Friend
and Elder
Brother?”
Most certainly, He is that and
more! He is also our Substitute,
the perfect Sacrifice
and Propitiation
for our sins
(satisfying the demands of divine
justice; expiation, mercy seat) and our High
Priest. Jesus
is also our Advocate,
pleading our cause
before our Heavenly Father to counter the accusations
the WICKED ONE brings
against us! The Bible
states: “Satan goeth about
like a roaring lion seeking who
may devour.” (1 Peter 5:
8). If he has no success in tempting, deceiving,
scaring us or making an attempt on our life, he lies about us.
When he accuses us before the Father,
Jesus – our Advocate -
speaks in our behalf, stating
that His precious blood shed on Calvary’s cross has purchased
our forgiveness and pardon!
The Bible says: “...he
(Satan) accuses
us before our God day and night.”
(Rev. 12: 10). The good
news is that we have a Saviour and an Advocate
who pleads our case before God the Father: “Little children these
things write I unto you that ye sin
not.
“ If any
man sin, we have an advocate, Jesus Christ the Righteous…
If we confess our sins, He
is faithful and just to forgive our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1: 7, 9)
WHAT
DOES THIS MEAN?
Jesus is the first
begotten Son of
God, the first among
many brethren and the first
fruits of them
that slept? (Heb.1: 6; Matt.1: 21; Rom.8: 29; Col.1: 15;
Heb.12: 23; 1 Cor.15: 23). Jesus
is the first in rank before all others. The
term ‘first born’
denotes the fact
that Jesus is the FIRST IN RANK, and
the first in
INHERITANCE.
There is none before
Him. He must have the pre-eminence. There is none
like Him and there will never be anyone like Him. He ALONE is the
Son of God and the ONLY Saviour of the
world! In Jewish
households, the eldest or firstborn Son had all the responsibility,
as well as the inheritance. When the father died, he automatically
assumed all the responsibilities for the family!
The “FIRST FRUITS OF
THEM THAT SLEPT” means that Jesus
is the first to die and
be raised, never to die again! Lazarus,
however, who died and was
raised from the dead, had to die again! Poor Lazarus had to
die twice. He Jesus was the
FIRST to die and be resurrected, NEVER to die again. ‘Emmanuel
– God is with us’.
He is alive now and with us. We have His promise:
“I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” (Heb.13: 5); “Lo,
I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world.” (Matt.28:
20)
In the above
Scripture, Jesus used a double imperative. The original text
is even more powerful. He actually said: “I will never, NO
NEVER leave thee. I will
never, NO NEVER forsake
thee…” While recuperating
from a deranged assassin’s bullet, President
Ronald Reagan was
asked by his pastor, “Mr. President, were you ready to
die?” He replied, “Oh
no, I have much work left to do!” The
pastor interjected, “No, Mr.
President, I meant were you ready to meet God?” Ronald
Reagan answered: “Oh,
yes!” Again, the
pastor asked: “Why, Mr. President?”
Immediately, President Ronald Reagan replied, “I
have a Saviour!”
DO YOU HAVE A
SAVIOUR?
My friend, do
you have a Saviour? The Bible says: “There
is none other name
under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
(Acts 4: 12); “For there is one God and one mediator between God
and men, the Man Christ Jesus.”
(1 Tim 2: 5). Jesus
Christ declared: “I am the
Way, the Truth and the Life and no
man cometh unto the Father but through Me.” (John
14: 6). Don’t allow the false
cults or religionists deceive you into following their pernicious
ways!
The Holy Scriptures
declare that Jesus Christ alone
is God’s Son Who
willingly sacrificed Himself and through His vicarious death and
glorious resurrection purchased our
freedom for time and eternity! Glory to God!
MIRACLE
of Protection! By
Luella Youngman, Courtenay, B.C.
It is a great joy to meet Pastor
Max Solbrekken at the
Conference
her in Courtenay after so many years! I have a story to tell that is
absolutely
awesome. This is a story of God’s Divine protection without which
I would
not be standing here tonight. My family and I would undoubtedly have
been
killed or maimed for life, if Jesus Christ had not intervened!
It was 1970 and Pastor Max had
recently moved to Edmonton
and planted a new church, the Edmonton Revival Centre. Large
crowds of people were attending night after night as great
miracles were taking place.
During the closing benediction one
night, Pastor Max put a special
emphasis on God’s divine
protection for everyone
traveling. It was quite
dark as we were driving home on the Calgary Trail, and due to some
roadwork ahead the traffic heading south had come to a standstill.
As we were stopping, I looked in the rear view mirror and saw a car
following us traveling at breakneck speed. I gripped the steer wheel
and
frantically hit the brake pedal and braced for impact as I called on
the name
of Jesus!
As the speeding automobile was
only feet away, it cut
dramatically to the left missing our car by inches and hitting the
vehicle in the next lane. By God’s
grace, the driver of that vehicle had
only minutes earlier walked to the front of the line to see
what the hold-up was!
Upon impact, the speeding car
became air-borne and ended up in a
farmer’s field more than thirty feet from the highway! I do not
know how
badly injured the driver of the car was, as the ambulance removed
her from
the scene.
The statement that she gave the
police, however, was that she
had planned to commit suicide by driving her car into our|vehicle,
but when she saw my brake lights suddenly come on self
preservation kicked in, causing her to veer sharply to miss us!
Only God preserved the lives of my
children and me on that fateful
night as God answered the prayers of a faithful shepherd Pastor Max
Solbrekken! Blessed be the name of Jesus Christ our Lord!
Jesus Left
A WILL:
Why don’t
you? By Pastor Max
Solbrekken, D.D.
“Did you ever think that when Christ was dying
on the cross He made a will? Perhaps
you have thought that no one ever
remembered you in a will. If you are in
the Kingdom, Christ remembered you in His.
He willed His body to Joseph of Arimathea,
He willed His mother to John, the
son of Zebedee, and He willed His Spirit
back to His Father. But to His disciples
He said, “My peace, I leave that with
you; that is My legacy. My joy, I give that
to you”. ~
D.L. MOODY
TIME IS AT A PREMIUM!
Please
remember this ‘Soul Winning Ministry’ in your Last Will and
Testament. Even at this late
hour of history, we are pressing forward as never
before with the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth!
We believe that ’time is short’ as
Dark Clouds of Apostasy, Compromise and
Cowardice has entered the Church at this most crucial time! Evil has
entrenched itself into our very moral
fibre from government, judiciary, educational,
commerce, media, churches, homes and society at large! (1 John
5:19) The World System is
Corrupt. It is flawed. It is rotten to the core. It brings
forth nothing but “mire and dirt” because “there is no peace,
saith my God to the wicked.”
(Is. 57: 20-21; John 9: 39). Nor
is there any blessing or good derived from “the broken fountains”
of pride, carnality,
worldliness and “having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof.” (Jer. 2: 13). We are commanded in the Word of God:
“From such turn away.” (2 Tim. 3:
5; 1 John 5: 4)
We have compromised,
acquiesced, and basically accommodated sin, and
now we are reaping ‘big time’! The Church has played footsie
with the devil, the world and
the flesh! And having done so, we have lost our moral integrity,
our standing as defenders of the faith and our credibility as ‘holy
men of God’ that can to be relied
upon! (Phil. 2: 15; 1 John 2: 15)
WE
MUST NEVER COMPROMISE! We
must not give in to the persuasion of those who advocate GROWTH at
any cost; through
political-correctness, easy believism, seeker sensitivity, greasy
grace and Christianity lite! There
are no shortcuts on the ‘Gospel Road’ when you follow the
Master! Jesus Christ stated: “Whosoever
will come after Me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Mark 8: 34). On Christ the
Solid Rock I stand. All other ground
is sinking sand!
Jesus
Christ, Saviour,
Son of God,
Friend
of Sinners!
By Pastor Max
Solbrekken, D.D.
“And the Pharisees and scribes
murmured,
saying, this man receiveth sinners...” (Luke
15:2)
One
of the accusations brought against Jesus by the ‘religious’ was
that
He received sinners and actually sat down to dinner with them. They
called
Him “a friend of
publicans and sinners”. (Luke
7:34)
That is GOOD NEWS - Jesus
is a friend of sinners! How
marvelous, wonderful and thrilling! Sinners have someone they can
trust,
someone who cares for them and someone who is able to save them!
“This man”, they
accused, “receives
sinners and eats with them”.
And their accusations
were true. He reached out to the sinful, poor,
maligned, sick and needy and gave them hope, peace, forgiveness,
healing
and joy!
And this disturbed the Pharisees
and scribes! The Pharisees were the
politically-oriented, elite, exclusive branch of Judaism. As
teachers of the
law they were self-righteous, proud and very legalistic! They
made their own laws which had nothing to do with God’s Word
- laws which neither they nor anyone else could keep. These
religious “dogooders” were often sterile, cold and harsh, and
ruled the people with an iron
fist!
JESUS WAS
DIFFERENT!
Jesus was kind,
understanding and friendly. He was fair, as well as compassionate,
caring and filled with wisdom and power from on High! And
He loved the people because God is love and He was God in the flesh!
(1 John 4:8)
By His touch lepers were cleansed,
the blind were made to see, the deaf received
hearing and deadly diseases were healed as God’s healing power
flowed from the Saviour into the lives
of those whom He encountered! His
compassion ran very deep and His mercy extended to people like
the widow woman at Nain, whose only son had died.
Jesus raised the young man from the dead so that the mother would
have someone to look after her! To the two blind men whose
sight He restored when they cried out to Him, the leper whom
He cleansed and the Canaanite woman whose demon-possessed
daughter Jesus delivered, He showed great mercy and
compassion!
God’s grace through Jesus
Christ reached into the heart of the ‘woman
taken in adultery’, the Roman centurion whose servant was sick and
Zaccheus the corrupt tax
collector! The critics of Jesus’ life and ministry stated:
He receives sinners and eats with
them! He has saved
others. Himself He cannot save! He
trusts in God! He
claims to be the Messiah, the Son of God! HE
SAVED OTHERS!
What a list of pluses, a
commendation extra-ordinaire. He receives sinners and forgives them.
He is a Saviour! His enemies, who were seeking to twist His words
and discredit our Lord Jesus Christ, actually were testifying on His
behalf. They derisively stated, “He saved others, but cannot save
Himself”. In actuality, they were calling Him the SAVIOUR!
What they didn’t grasp was that
He had come to earth as a REDEEMER
and had to die for the sins of the world, theirs included! The
very purpose of the incarnation
(God becoming flesh) was to be our SUBSTITUTE,
which had been prophesied 700 years earlier by the Old Testament
prophet. “But He
was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with
HIS STRIPES we are healed.”
(Isaiah 53:5)
If He would have succumbed to
the challenge: “Come down from
the cross and we will believe on you”, there would be no
salvation for anyone, because His
death and resurrection were necessary
to assure our salvation!
HE IS THE SON OF
GOD!
He is our Saviour as the angel
prophesied, “...for that which is conceived
in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she (Mary) shall bring forth a
son, and thou shalt call His Name
Jesus: For He shall save His people from
their sins”. (Matt. 1:20-21) The
Bible says, “...that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish but have everlasting life”. (John 3:16) What
a wonderful commendation. The Bible says, “Offer the sacrifices
of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.” (Ps. 4:5)
Yet, His accusers stated, “He
trusted in God, let Him deliver Him now,
if He will have Him: For He
said, I am the Son of God”. (Matt. 27:43)
He trusted in God! Oh, that men
today would trust in God, instead of in position,
government or wealth! The Scripture says, “It’s not by might,
nor by power but by My Spirit, saith
the Lord”. (Zech. 4:6)
Repeatedly, Jesus Christ claimed to
be the SON OF GOD and He presently
remains the same yesterday, today and forever. The
Bible calls Him the only
begotten, one and only SON OF GOD! The
High Priest demanded of Him, “...I adjure Thee by the living
God, that Thou tell us whether Thou be
the Christ, the Son of God.”
(Matt. 26:63) Jesus affirmed in no uncertain terms that He is!
“Jesus saith unto him, thou hast
said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter
shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power,
and coming in the clouds of heaven”.
(vs. 64, 65)
The Bible records state: “Again
the high priest asked Him, and said unto
Him, Art Thou the Christ
the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said I am...”
(Mark 14:61, 62) The
Central verse of the Bible states: “For
God so loved the
world, that He gave His (one and only) only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
(John 3: 16)
WHAT DOES ALL
THIS MEAN TO US TODAY?
A very important question arises
within us all, believers in Christ as well
as unbelievers: “What does all this have to do with me?” And
the answer is, “Plenty!”
It has everything to do with us! You may ask “Why?”
The answer is plain and
simple: Jesus came unto the world to save
sinners. He was born crucified, born to die in order to atone for
our sins. He came to bring us
to God!
The Bible says, “All have sinned
and come short of the glory of God”.
(Rom. 3:23) “The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord”. (Rom. 6:23) “For this purpose
the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works
of the devil”. (1 John 3:8)
This song says it all: ‘JESUS...
He came to earth, the promise
to fulfill, A rugged cross He bore on Calvary’s Hill;
And for my sins He cried, ‘Father
forgive’; Born to die, that I
might live. Born to die, a cruel cross to bear; Born to die,
His everlasting love to share.
Between two thieves He bowed
His head and cried: ‘It’s finished now, I came to die.’
YE MUST BE BORN
AGAIN!
Jesus said, “Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the
Kingdom of God... Ye must be born again”. (John 3:3,7) “He that
believeth in the Son hath everlasting life.” (John 3:16) “He
that believeth not (on the Son of God)
shall be damned.” (Mark 16:16)
The Bible says, “Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved”.
(Acts 16:31);“Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born
of God”. (John 5:1)
Believe on Him today, call upon His Name and you
will be saved! I have never been sorry that I received Jesus Christ
as a young man of 24 and I know
you will be satisfied with Christ!
The High Priest rent
His clothes and accused Jesus of blasphemy and the
council condemned Him to death for making Himself equal to God.
(Matt. 27:20; John 5:18) The Chief
Priests then forced Pilate, the Roman Governor
to crucify Him, saying: “...If
thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s
friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against
Caesar”. (John
19:12)
There are numerous
witnesses who testified that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God, including the Roman Centurion who stood guard duty at
the\ crucifixion of our Saviour.
HERE IS THE ACCOUNT:
“Now when the centurion, and
they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earth quake,
and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly
this was the Son of God”.
(Matt. 27:54) St. Paul summed
it up in his letter to the Roman Church: “Concerning
His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of
David, according to the flesh; And declared
to be the Son of God with power,
according to the Spirit
of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead”.
(Rom. 1:3-4)
The Bible says, “He
that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in
himself; he that believeth not God, hath made Him a liar because he
believeth not the record that God gave
of His Son. “And this
is the record,
that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
He that hath the Son hath life,
and he that hath not the Son hath not life”.
(1 John 5:10-12)
Jesus Christ is indeed the world’s
Only Saviour and Redeemer, the
Risen, Glorified Son of God. HE IS ALSO THE FRIEND OF SINNERS!
My Doctor Says,
“The Tumours are gone,” I
don’t need an operation!
Says Joyce Temple, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan
I suffered for two years with a lot of pain and
pressure below my stomach on my left
side. Even though I felt sick I
tried to adjust and still went to work.
My coworker said that I was pale and looked like
I had pain. I said that I was OK and was trusting God’s
Word and that by Jesus’ stripes we are healed of
all sicknesses and diseases.
I was putting on
weight around my waist and couldn’t
getting into my pants and experiencing pain
in my stomach. Last year I ended up in Emergency.
After an examination my
doctor booked me for an C.T.S. The doctor
called me at midnight and informed me that I did not have cancer,
but that I had five growing fibroid
tumours and was that he was booking me an
ultra sound.
I cancelled the
appointment. I had asked for prayer several times at Christ
the Healer Gospel Church and was standing in faith in God’s
promises of divine healing! Pastor Max
Solbrekken invited a visiting Minister
from Manitoba to preach on a Sunday morning.
After his message, I
told him about the tumours and asked him for prayer.
His wife laid her hands on my stomach and as they prayed I felt as
though I had a bowl of Jelly in my
body. I was shaking and felt lighter. I told Pastor
Funk that I was going to see the doctor the next morning and he
replied that I would have a great
testimony.
I had a new family
doctor and even reviewing my case he said that I definitely
needed an ultra sound so that the surgeon would know how many
tumours there were before performing
surgery.
I replied that Jesus
Christ had healed me and that they wouldn’t find any
tumours! Dr. Nataraj sent me to a gynecologist. After more tests
and examinations, Dr. Ezzart stated
that I was a healthy 54-year-old woman,
all my female organs were healthy and that I did not need an operation.
Praise God!
I had lost seven
pounds and my pants fit perfectly again. I have no pain
and I am praising Jesus day and night for His gift of healing to
me!
All Things are
Possible With God!
The Living
Christ
For a Dying
World!
By Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.
“One thing I know,
that, whereas I was blind now I see.” (John
9:25) A grand old hymn of the Church
emphatically states: “I SERVE
A RISEN SAVIOUR – HE’S IN
THE WORLD TODAY! I know that He is living,
whatever men may say. I see His hand of mercy. I hear His voice of
cheer. And every time I need Him, He’s
always there!
He lives. He lives.
Christ Jesus lives today.
He walks with me and He talks
with me along life’s narrow way. You ask me, how I know He lives.
He lives within my heart!”
The Word of God says:
“And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man which was
blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master,
Who did sin, this man, or his
parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered:
Neither hath this man sinned; nor
his parents: but that the works of
God should be made manifested in him.” (John
9: 1-3)
JESUS MIRACULOUSLY HEALED HIM! The
religious leaders didn’t want
to acknowledge that it was a miracle but when it was proven to
be so, they were offended because
Jesus had healed him on the Sabbath day. “Then
again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give\
God the praise; we know that this man
(Jesus) is a sinner. He answered and said,
Whether He be a sinner or no, I know not: One
thing I know, that whereas
I was blind, now I see.”
(John 9: 24, 25)
ZINNZENDORF’S
CREED: IT IS JESUS AND ONLY JESUS!
Count Zinnzendorf, the
young man whom God used mightily in the great
Moravian Revival that
began in Herrnhut, Germany on August
13, 1727 among
the persecuted believers he had given asylum on his estates stated:
“WE HAVE ONE CREED – IT IS JESUS,
ONLY JESUS!”
The man whom Jesus
healed had one creed: “One
thing I know, that whereas
I was blind, now I see.”
When the religious
enemies of Jesus questioned him further concerning the
miracle, he became a witness for the Saviour: “He answered them, I
have told you already, and ye did not
hear: wherefore would you hear it again?
Will ye also be His
disciples?” (v.28)
“Then they reviled
him, and said, Thou art His disciple; but we are Moses’
disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we
know not from whence He is.
“The man answered
and said unto them, Why
herein is a marvelous thing,
that ye know not from whence he is, and yet He hath opened
mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but
if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth His will Him
He heareth.
“Since the world
began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one
that was born blind. If this
man were not of God, He could do nothing.
They answered and said unto
him, Thou wast altogether born in sins,
and doth thou teach us? And they cast him out of the temple.”
(John 9:29-34)
JESUS
WENT LOOKING FOR HIM!
Jesus heard
that they had cast him out and when He had found him asked:
“Dost thou believe
on the Son of God?
He answered, Who is
He Lord, that I
might believe on Him? Jesus
answered Thou hast both seen\ Him,
and it is He that talketh with thee. And
he said, Lord, I believe. And he
worshipped Him.”
(John 9:35-38)
Studying this
marvelous account of God‘s wonderful miracle, we can see
the effects of sterile religious activity that is void of God‘s
blessing! These religious
Jews were sincere in their faith but filled with PRIDE
and UNBELIEF
and had overlooked the
prophecies given by Moses concerning
the coming Messiah. And when He arrived they rejected Him.
Jesus called them, “Blind
leaders of the blind.” (Matt.15:
14)\ He said: “…Thus
have ye made the commandment of God of none effect\ by
your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esais prophecy about you,
saying, This people draweth
nigh unto Me with their mouth but their heart
is far from Me. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men.”
(Matt.15: 6-9)
In his book, Then
Jesus Came, DR. THOMAS
WYATT referring to the man who
was born blind stated: “God
had not caused this man to be born blind, but from his sad state,
God would receive glory and reveal to
men, of all time, that the deliverance he
was bringing to men was not confined to a
religion of abstract creeds
with its cautious limitation, and stilted alibis for failure,
but real deliverance for every need of
man, body, soul and spirit.
HE
GLORIFIES GOD!\ “Oh, He
is a wonderful Saviour, my friend, and it is your need He is dealing
with today. The blind man received his sight, the leper of Bible
days was cleansed, Mary
Magdalene was delivered from the seven demons, the lame
man of the early church walked. “That
generation has gone on, and we are here, another\ generation
with the same kind of needs. The blind need to see. God
never meant for men to dwell in darkness. The crippled and bedridden
need to walk. Demon possessed men and women also need
to find deliverance as much as those did in other days! “Would
Jesus cast the legion of devils out of the wild man of Gadara
and do nothing for people of like condition today? Is God
a respecter of persons and has He
left no provisions for us today? Has
God ceased to live or has He lost His concern? Were the\ Scriptures
written in vain? And to whom were they written if not for
us?
“Man-made
religion has replaced the glorious Gospel of Deliverance
with creeds based on tradition setting forth a God of social
ethics who can do nothing for the Blind Bartimaeuses and Mary
Magdalenes!”
THE
CHRIST OF MODERN THEOLOGY!
“The best this
cultural God of modern religion can offer is institutions for
the demon possessed and the blind, the deaf and dumb. This
is humanitarianism,
but it is not God’s way, neither is it Bible Christianity!
“This modern
theology is organized to brand as heresy and ignorance those
who in their desperate needs move out beyond cautious creeds and
find real and living faith based upon
a vital contact between the seeking soul and
his God!
“Our creeds are
considered to be what we believe, and our ministry
is the product of that belief. The acts of a man reveal what
he believes. A man’s belief is not what he may think he
believes, but his actions and his
life speak in convincing language of
his faith.”
Jesus said, “If a
man love me he will keep My commandments” and the commandments
of God are not a series of negative demands, things for people
not do, but they consist also in things to do, such as “Seek
ye first the
Kingdom of God”, “Be ye filled with the Spirit”, “Love the
Lord with all your heart”, “Esteem
others better than yourself.”
Jesus asked His
disciples: “But Whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter
answered and said Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God.”
Then our Lord declared: “Flesh and
blood had not revealed it unto thee but My
Father who is in heaven.” (Matt. 16: 15-17)
The confession
Peter made was not a product of much learning,
traditional teaching or mental deduction. It was a divine
revelation from God Almighty giving us a clear statement of
what all seeking souls must believe to enter the Kingdom of
heaven! (1
John 4: 2, 3; John 3: 16-18, 36)
WHO
IS JESUS CHRIST?
“When Jesus came
into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples,
saying, Whom do men say that
I the Son of man am? And
they said, Some say that Thou art John
the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias
or one of the prophets. “And
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter
answered and said, Thou art
the Christ the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said
unto him, Blessed art thou Simon Barjona:
for flesh and blood hath not revealed
Dean Milley delivered in 1988 from
a life of alcohol, drugs and demons of suicide is
now a
powerful evangelist in
Latin America
All I wanted to do
was take my own life. On May
15, 1988 I left my
house about 8:00 p.m. with my suicide note on my bed. I
had plan to go to the Trans Canada Highway and have a head on
collision with another car.
I ended up taking a turn that lead to Camp Emmanuel Pentecostal
Conference with Evangelist
Max Solbrekken.
I remember Pastor
Solbrekken saying that God is calling a young
man back to him. He told me I had planned to not live another
day but God wants me to know this was my night. He said
he was going to count to ten and he wanted to see me at the
alter before he finished. I ran to
the alter, when I got there my pastor,
Terry Snow, my brother, David, Pastor Ivan
Randell and Pastor
Foster were there with me.
POSSESSED
BUT DELIVERED
As I knelt there I
felt nothing. Everything left me and I didn’t want what God
was offering me. I stood up to leave, but Pastor Snow asked me if he
could pray before I left. So as he did
I fell to the floor. Before long I was feeling
really weird. I started to
tremble and scream. When Evangelist Max Solbrekken
seen this, he came against the powers of hell and the forces
of Satan and rebuked it. After much persisting prayer along
with all the other pastors ,I was set free from the powers of
hell and the demons that had
possessed me for years.
As I was set free, it
was like cotton unwinding from a spindle and it came
from the pit of my stomach and out of my mouth. I stood up that
night like a bird set free from
its cage. Everything looked so clean! Even the dirt. Even
the darkness outside was shining. I went home that night a free man.
That night I went to bed and had the
best night sleep I had for a long, long time!
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