Art Thou The King Of The Jews?

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This information was taken from Eusebius' book, The History of the Church.

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John 18:33: "Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art                         thou the King of the Jews?"

    Pontus Pilate asked that question as if he knew the answer already. Did Pilate know something? Did he overhear something? He worked closely with the priests. Were they talking about Jesus?

    Why did he make such a statement?

    But what a minute, Herod was the King of the Jews!  Or was he!

    When Herod, the first ruler of foreign blood, became King, the prophecy of Moses received its fulfillment: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes." Genesis 49:10.

    Shiloh is a Hebrew word meaning "Peaceful One," or "Gift from God." Jesus was both.

    Herod, the first foreigner, was given the Kingdom of the Jews by the Romans. As Josephus relates, he was an Edomite on his father's side and an Arabian on his mother's. 

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    But Africanus, a famous writer, he was a son of Antipater, and that the latter was the son of a certain Herod of Ascalon, one of the so-called servants of the temple of Apollo. This Antipater, having been taken prisoner while a boy by Edomite robbers, lived with them, because his father, being a poor man, was unable to pay the ransom for him. Growing up with them, he was afterwards befriended by Hyrcanus, the high priests of the Jews. A son of his, was that Herod who lived in the times of Jesus.

    When Pompey, the Roman general, took Jerusalem by force in 63 BC, and defiled the holy places by entering the very innermost sanctuary of the temple, Aristobulus, who, by the right had been king and high priest, he sent with his children in chains to Rome; and gave to Hyrcanus, brother of Aristobulus, the high priesthood, while the whole nation of the Jews was made a tributary to the Romans from that time.

    But Hyrcanus, who was the last of the regular line of high priests, was very soon afterwards taken prisoner by the Parthians, and Herod, the first foreigner, was made King of the Jewish nation by the Roman Senate and by Augustus.

Under him Christ appeared in bodily shape!

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What It Means To Be Full Of The Holy Ghost

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Here is a good article about what it means to be full of the Holy Spirit. Enjoy.

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WHAT MEANS TO BE FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST.

Acts 6. In the days when the number of disciples began to be multiplied there developed a situation which caused the twelve to make a definite decision not to occupy themselves with serving tables, but to give themselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. How important it is for all God’s ministers to be continually in prayer, and constantly feeding on the Scriptures of Truth. I often offer a reward to anyone who can catch me anywhere without my Bible or my Testament.

None of you can be strong in God unless you are diligently and consistently hearkening to what God has to say to you through His Word. You cannot know the power and the nature of God unless you partake of His breathed Word. Read it at morn and at night, and at every opportunity you get. After every meal, instead of indulging in unprofitable conversation round the table, read a chapter from the Word and then have a season of prayer. I endeavour to make a point of doing this no matter where or with whom I am staying.

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The Psalmist said that he had hid God’s Word in his heart, that he might not sin against Him; and you will find that the more of God’s Word you hide in your heart, the easier it is to live a holy life. He also testified that God’s Word lead quickened him; and, as you receive God’s Word into your being, your whole physical being will be quickened and you will be made strong. As you receive with meekness the Word, you will find faith upspringing within. And you will have life through the Word.

The twelve told the rest to look out seven men to look after the business end of things. They were to be men of honest report and filled with the Holy Ghost. These were just ordinary men who were chosen, but they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and this infilling always lifts a man to a plane above the ordinary. It does not take a cultured or a learned man to fill a position in God’s church; what God requires is a yielded, consecrated, holy life, and He can make of such a flame of fire. Baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire!

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The multitude chose out seven men to serve tables. They were doubtless faithful in their appointed tasks, but we see that God soon had a better choice for two of them. Philip was so full of the Holy Ghost that he could have a revival wherever God put him down. Man chose him to serve tables, but God chose him to win souls. O, if I could only stir you up to see that as you are faithful in performing the humblest office, God can fill you with His Spirit and make you a chosen vessel for Himself, and promote you to a place of mighty ministry in the salvation of souls and in the healing of the sick. There is nothing impossible to a man filled with the Holy Ghost. It is beyond all human comprehension. When you are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, God will wonderfully work wherever you go.

When you are filled with the Spirit you will know the voice of God. I want to give you illustration of this. When I was going out to Australia recently, our boat stopped at Aden and at Bombay. In the first place the people came round the ship selling their wares, beautiful carpets and all sorts of oriental things. There was one man selling some ostrich feathers. As I was looking over the side of the ship watching the trading, a gentleman said to me, “Would you go shares with me in buying that bunch of feathers?” What did I want with feathers? I had no use for such things and no room for them either. But the gentleman put the question to me again, “Will you go shares with me in buying that bunch?” The Spirit of God said to me, “Do it.”

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The feathers were sold to us for three pounds, and the gentleman said, “I have no money on me, but if you will pay the man for them, I will send the cash down to you by the purser.” I paid for the feathers and gave the gentleman his share. He was travelling first, and I was travelling second class. I said to him, “No, please don’t give that money to the purser, I want you to bring it to me personally to my cabin.” I said to the Lord, “What about these feathers?” He showed me that He had a purpose in my purchasing them.

At about 10 o’clock the gentleman came to my cabin and said, “I’ve brought the money.” I said to him, “It is not your money that I want, it is your soul that I am seeking for God.” Right there he opened up the whole plan of his life and began to seek God; and that morning he wept his way through to God’s salvation.

You have no conception what God can do through you when you are filled with His Spirit. Every day and every hour you can have the divine leading of God. To be filled with the Holy Ghost means much in every way. I have seen some who have been suffering for years, and when they have been filled with the Holy Ghost everything of their sickness has passed away. The Spirit of God has made real to them the life of Jesus and they have been completely liberated of every sickness and infirmity.

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Look at Stephen. He was just an ordinary man chosen to serve tables. But the Holy Ghost was in him and he was full of faith and power, and did great wonders and miracles among the people. There was no resisting the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. How important it is that every man shall be filled with the Holy Spirit.

 

- Smith Wigglesworth ( Ever Increase Faith )

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Love And Betrayal

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LOVE AND BETRAYAL

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William Seymour’s thoughts turned to marriage. Jennie Evans Moore, a faithful member of his ministry in Los Angeles, became his wife. She was known for her beauty, musical talents, and spiritual sensitivity. She was a very gentle woman and was always faithful to stand beside brother Seymour. It was Jennie who felt the Lord would have them marry, and Seymour agreed. The couple married on May 13, 1908. After the ceremony, William and Jennie moved into a modest apartment upstairs in the Azusa Mission.

But the news of their marriage angered a small yet very influential group at the Mission. One of the main antagonists was Clara Lum, the mission’s secretary responsible for the newspaper’s publication. After learning of Seymour’s marriage, she abruptly decided that it was time to leave the mission.

A few believers at Azusa had some very odd ideas about marriage. Lum’s group believed marriage in the last days to be a disgrace because of the coming return of Christ, and they severely denounced Seymour for his decision.

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It may have been that Clara Lum was secretly in love with Seymour and that she left because of her jealousy. Whatever the reason, she relocated to Portland, Oregon, to join the mission headed by a former Azusa associate, Florence Crawford. When she did, she took the entire national and international mailing lists with her!

This unthinkable action crippled Seymour’s worldwide publication outreach. His entire national and international lists of over fifty thousand names had been stolen, leaving him with only the Los Angeles list. Then, when the May 1908 Apostolic Faith was sent out, the cover looked the same, but inside was a column announcing its new address in Portland for contributions and mail!

 The thousands who eagerly read and sent contributions to the newspaper now started sending them to Portland without questioning the change. By the June issue, no article by Seymour appeared at all. Finally, by midsummer of 1908, all references to Los Angeles were omitted entirely. When it became clear that Lum wouldn’t be returning, the Seymours traveled to Portland to confront Lum and ask for the lists. But the lists were never returned. 

Without this vital information, it was impossible for Seymour to continue the publication, and an era of Azusa was brought to a dramatic end!

-Roberts Liardon

 God’s Generals ( William J. Seymour)

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It's A Gift

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Here is a better understanding that the Gift of the Holy Spirit, is just that, it's a gift.

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A GIFT, NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT.

The Baptism in the Spirit is a gift, not an achievement. Nobody is superior to anybody else just because God baptises them with the Spirit. There is no room to talk about two classes of Christians, those who have been baptised in the Spirit and those who have not. The gift is for everyone, even if they have not yet collected it. “ God has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3). No matter how many sons a rich man has they all sit equally as his sons at the table.

However, we are exhorted to take advantage of what is available. Jesus said we should ask, seek and knock to obtain the Holy Spirit (Matthew 7:7), while Paul encouraged us to “ be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18). I like what I see in Acts 1: Jesus told the apostles (v.2) to “wait for the gift the Father promised” (v.4). But by the time we get to 1:15, there are 120 believers who have come together and are filled with the Spirit. They all wanted to get in on the act! Peter didn’t object like Joshua, who objected when some received the Spirit in Moses’ camp. Instead, he said, “ The promise (that is, the Holy Spirit) is for you and your children and for all who are far off – for all whom the Lord our God will call” (Acts 2:39).

- Reinhard Bonnke ( Baptism In The Holy Spirit ) 

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The Old Battery

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THE OLD BATTERY.

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It does not matter how cold you are spiritually or how far you have wandered from the faith. Like an old battery, there is always a residual charge–once empowered by the Spirit, always empowered. You just must clean up with the Blood of Jesus, and you will be like brand new.

A FRIEND OF MINE WAS CLEANING OUT HIS GARAGE and tossed a piece of metal aside into what appeared to be a pile of garbage. It caused vivid and audible sparking. Investigation revealed an old car battery. The steel bar had shorted across its terminals. The cells still held some charge, so he brought it out for possible future use. For some, that might be a parable—you’ve given up, and think the power has gone. It never goes. Clear the rubbish out of the way and you will find that the Holy Spirit is not so easily switched off. After ministering under  a  strong  prophetic  unction  for  years,  Elisha  died,  but  the  anointing remained on his bones. When a young man died and was accidentally thrown into Elisha’s tomb, he came back to life (2 Kings 13:21). There is hope for you yet.

~ Reinhard Bonnke

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Reverence

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Here is an important message about giving God the reverence that He deserves.

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Reverence

As Jesus was discussing the subject of clapping and raising of the hands in praise to Him, He made this statement: "When you really learn to praise and worship Me in the right way, you'll find a stronger anointing and a greater move of the Holy Spirit in your midst. 

We need to learn that when the Presence of the Lord is in a place, we should not dissipate that Presence, that power. Be quiet and reverent and then you'll see the manifestation of the Holy Ghost that your heart has longed for.

You haven't see anything like what we will see when the Body of Christ gets to that place of worship. We were in that kind of atmosphere worshipping God in one of our crusades, and there were five people sitting in wheelchairs. Three of them just got up and walked off. No one laid a hand on them. But for that to happen, we have to begin to get into the flow of the Holy Spirit.

When you get in an atmosphere of true worship, and God begins to move by His Spirit, you can just reach out and take what belongs to you in Christ. The Bible teaches laying on of hands, but you really don't have to have hands laid on you when the Presence of God is so strongly in manifestation. 

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In Charismatic Movement. There's been a lightness in Charismatic services: a "hip-hip-hooray" type of atmosphere. Ohhhh! But in times past, I've seen the Presence of God come in and fill the temple! When I say "the temple, " I mean a body of believers. 

During those times when the Presence of God came into our services, no one moved; an awesome Presence filled the room. I wish I could describe that awesome Presence to you. Some things are just too reverent to talk about and it's hard to find words to describe them. But I've seen the awesome Presence of God come in and fill the temple. I long to see the Body of Christ experience that Presence on a continual basis!

At this writing, it has been almost a year since Jesus' 1987 visitation with me. In our own ministry, we have been experiencing the deeper move of the Spirit of God among us which Jesus promised. Just a short while after the summer Campmeeting, our crusade team was in Detroit. One of our singers was singing a song of the Spirit, fresh from Heaven, given by the inspiration of the Spirit in that moment. Upon hearing one of the lines of the song, the crowd began to clap. The singer stopped and exhorted the congregation, "Please don't clap anymore." 

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They received the instruction and listened to what the Spirit was saying as he went on with the spiritual song. A depth, an indescribable Presence like a cloud filled the auditorium. We had no preaching that night. The Holy Spirit came upon me in a greater measure to minister by the Spirit in healings and in other ways. Afterwards, I asked those seated in the minister's' section if they had noticed how the anointing increased.

But when people begin to demonstrate in the flesh, the anointing lifts -it flies away like a bird taking flight because it grieves the Spirit. I wish I could get that over to people. I've been in meetings of several thousand where the Holy Spirit was moving, and suddenly, I knew by the Holy Spirit when the anointing came upon me to stand over in the office of the prophet and minister to the people. I was just ready to call out certain people, to point to them right where they stood, and say, "The Spirit of God just showed me this is what is wrong with you." I've ministered that way many times through the years, and every time, the people have been healed.

 When I've ministered under that kind of an anointing, I've never had one person fail to get healed. I could tell you about thousands of people who were healed that way through the many years of my ministry. However, sometimes when the anointing has come to minister in that office, people in the congregation have gotten up and started moving about. The lack of reverence for God moving in the service grieved the Spirit and He left; the anointing lifted from me. I mean,

just like a bird sitting on your shoulder, it flew away- the anointing left. 

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And those people didn't even know it; they went out talking and whispering. Maybe they were in a hurry to leave and get something to eat, but they didn't know that they had just hindered some dear sick people from being healed-sometimes people with terminal cases.

During this visitation before Campmeeting '87, the Lord dealt with me very strongly about the fact that He's trying to get the Body of Christ to the place where He can move by His Spirit in our midst. I'm gradually seeing that come to pass. The Body of Christ is finally coming to the place where God can move in our services like He wants to. This is the time! 

The Body of Christ has finally come to that time now, and is getting ready for the move that God wants in the earth, glory to God! Several years ago, the Lord said to me, "There is a  move of the Spirit of God that will be lost to this present generation unless they are taught and led into it."

I don't know that we have been successful at this yet. But we're finally coming to the place where we can begin to teach this. The Lord went on to say to me, "Some of the old- time Pentecostals knew something about that deeper move of the Spirit. The new generation of Charismatics know little or nothing about it. Charismatics know little or nothing about the move of My Spirit. Charismatics know a little about praising Me, but they know nothing at all about true worship.".

- Kenneth E Hagin ( Purpose, Plan,Pursuits )

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Members, Citizens, Sons

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THIS IS WHY YOU’RE BURNED OUT

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Most churches never get past Membership. They focus on drawing crowds instead of raising sons. But if you’re building for the Kingdom, you can’t stop at inspiration—you must cultivate transformation.

MEMBERS consume. They come for a good word, a great atmosphere, and personal encouragement. They are present, but not planted.

CITIZENS commit. They move beyond “church as usual” and embrace discipleship. They want to grow, be equipped, and understand Kingdom culture.

SONS carry weight. They don’t just attend—they invest, serve, protect, and advance the vision. They don’t need to be entertained because they’re too busy building.

The problem? Most pastors are pouring their hearts into Members instead of Sons.

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Here’s the hard truth:

➡️ If you treat Members like Sons, you will burn out trying to carry people who were never called to carry weight.

➡️ If you treat Sons like Members, you will frustrate the ones who were called to build with you.

➡️ If you treat Citizens like outsiders, they’ll never grow into their full potential.

This is why discernment is critical in leadership. Not everyone who comes is called to stay. Not everyone who stays is called to build. And not everyone who builds is called to lead.

I want to see you finish strong and not burn out. 

By an Unknown Source

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