Living Hope Fellowship Church

NO MIGHTY WORK

Training Material

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

NO MIGHTY WORK

Preface

(unbelief, stages in Christ, can a Christian sin)

          Mark 6:5-6 says tells us that in His home town, even among church folks and his own kindred, Jesus could do no mighty work!  He marveled because of their unbelief!

          Unbelief is not an action of your mind, but a condition of your soul.  The mind tries to reason things out, but you have to make a decision in your heart whether you are going to believe what you are thinking or not. 

Can a Christian sin?  He is not supposed to, but he does, and sometimes it is in ignorance.  When it is brought to the light he is supposed to get it under the blood, and be cleansed, and go on in God again. 

God knows that we are at different stages in our walk with God.  He knows we’ve had trials, but it is time we quit pointing the finger at everybody else, and point it at ourselves.  1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 

          Revival will come when God’s people get rid of stubborn will, unholy pride, and self that tries to override Christ’s nature in us! 

NO MIGHTY WORK

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

          We have decreed revival, and God said He would establish it.  Job 22:28 says, “Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.” 

          In our heart and soul we want the Spirit of God to move!  As a pastor, one of my greatest burdens is that the church will clean up its act.  We must not doubt God anymore, but believe God fully so we can see revival.  It is where we are not leaning to our own understanding, but believing what God’s Word says.   

          This passage of Scripture is very provoking.  Mark 6:5-6 says, “And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.  And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.”  This is talking about Jesus in His home town, among church folks and His own kindred. 

The Bible declares that later He sent them forth two by two in all the towns where He would enter later on.  I believe God has sent forth His Spirit and called men and women to preach and teach in places where Jesus is about to come.  We are here to witness to you that Jesus is going to do a mighty work in this last hour. 

Jesus could do no mighty work there.  Jesus wasn’t surprised when the sinner didn’t believe, but He was perplexed, and puzzled at the unbelief of the church people, the body that was supposed to be serving God.  They did not have enough faith to get anything done.  He only laid His hands on a few sick folk.  He brought a little glimpse of His glory, but He was kept from bringing the fullness of His power, because people didn’t believe.  He was not going to deliver where people didn’t believe. 

To get a miracle is very easy for God, but for us it is impossible.  If we don’t have the condition of faith and believe God to the degree He has called us to believe Him, then we will not see His glory manifested.  We will not see miracles, healings, salvations, or the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 

The church world is filled with unbelief.  Many don’t even believe the power of God is evident for today.  Some have never seen it, and some haven’t seen it in a long while.  2 Timothy 3:5 says, “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 

Jesus couldn’t stand their unbelief.  Therefore He went about the villages and the synagogues teaching, so they could understand the Word of God some, and begin to hear, have faith, and see miracles. 

Did Jesus have the power to perform a miracle there?  You know He did.  Matthew 28:18 says, “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”  God has plenty of power, but He does not always manifest it, because of unbelief.  Jesus expects His church to believe Him! 

God desires to speak to His people, and He wants them to believe it when He talks to them.  You have to believe God will do these things before you will come to Him to receive them.  You have to believe God can take the sin out of your heart and life before you seek God to get it out. You have to believe that God can fill you with the Holy Ghost before you can ever get filled. 

This is why we preach awesome things like translation, visiting heaven, and other things.  They sound high, but they are in the Bible.  If you don’t hear it you can’t believe on it, you won’t pray for it, and you won’t receive it.  Therefore I have to preach it so you can hear it, and it is up to you to decide to believe it.

Romans 10:14-15 says, “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?  And how shall they preach, except they be sent. . . .”  I believe I am sent from the Lord with this message. 

They didn’t get anything from Jesus because they didn’t believe, yet they were godly people.  Can a Christian not believe?  Let’s get the definition of unbelief.  Unbelief is not an action of your mind, but a condition of your soul.  The mind provokes unbelief, because it is enmity with God, and fights against God’s Word.  It tries to reason things out, but you have to make a decision in your heart whether you are going to believe what you are thinking or not. 

We should believe what God says, but Christians stumble over the greatest promises in the Word of God.  Jesus said in John 15:7, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” 

Many in the church believe that they can ask what they will, and it shall be done, but they don’t believe they can abide in Him.  Jesus laid out a condition first, and then He laid out the blessing. 

God loves you unconditionally, because it is by grace that he sent Jesus, but He lays out conditions when it comes to receiving blessing.  The choice is yours to remain under the curse, or you can believe God and get out from under the curse and receive blessing.  When the curse is broken the blessing will come. 

People are afflicted and bound, tormented and fettered, even in the church, because they have quit believing God.  Some have got to a plateau, and they are ready to settle there.  They built their house right there, but it is not supposed to be there.  We are supposed to be ever striving for the mark. Philippians 3:14 says, “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

When a man builds his house here in the earth, he is satisfied where he is.  He has rejected the house Jesus has for him in heaven.  He only got about ten rungs up the ladder and there are more to go, but it won’t be long till his faith is dead.  He won’t be faithful anymore, and he will lose what he got from God. 

There is a promise, but there is a condition.  The promise is that you shall have whatsoever you ask.  The condition is that you abide in Him.  Read the Word of God, absorb it, and obey it.  Abide in Him in fasting and prayer and seeking Him.  Live every day under the shadow of the Almighty. 

          It shows evidently that the church does not think they can abide in God, because they are not doing it.  If you don’t believe you can be saved, you won’t be saved.  Without faith it is impossible to believe God.  Romans 12:2 says, “. . . God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”  When God draws you by His Spirit, either you will accept or reject Him.

          You have to do that from the time you get saved to the time you are raptured or you die in the Lord.  A Christian can believe God for salvation, but may not believe Him for the Holy Ghost.  Some Christians are saved, but they are sick.  They love the Lord, and they believe for salvation, but not for healing.  Their faith is limited.  Psalm 78:41 says, “Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.”  That is why the children of Israel didn’t go on in to the promised land. 

2 Corinthians 6:17 says, “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,”  Come out from among the world and also come out from unbelieving church people, even those who are saved.  You can’t remain in unbelief very long before you lose something. 

There are different levels and stages in Christian development.  Some are babes and some are elders in the faith.  How long you have been in Christ chronologically has nothing to do with how mature in the Lord you are.  If someone has not been in the Lord very long, they won’t be mature in the Lord.  However, if somebody has been in the Lord a long time, it does not mean necessarily that they are mature in the Lord.

          I know some people who love the Lord.  I believe they will make heaven their home, but they do not believe God very much, so they are sick, afflicted, tormented, and their family does not think much of their witness.  They want power, but they do not believe God.  They do not think they can be perfect and abide in the Lord.  They do not think they can give up some things in order to get in the place they need to be.  They keep looking at leaders to see if God will get a hold of them.  Then they think they will reach in and get some of what they have got. 

Part of that in ministry is ordained, but there are parts of your walk that ministers can’t touch.  You will have to get it for yourself, between you and Jesus Christ.  One is salvation, then the gift of the Holy Ghost, then the gifts and fruit of the Spirit.  You have to make it in the rapture by yourself.  I can’t reach over and grab you by the shirt collar and take you when I go.  You have to fly on your own.  I pray you have enough of God in that day that you will go.  If you are in any doubt whatsoever, you need to press into the altar right away so God will move in your soul and get you into that place of confidence toward God. 

          There are different levels in faith.  Romans 1:17 says, “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”  2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

          There are different levels of the Christian walk.  God is not willing that any should perish (see 2 Peter 3:9).  Neither is He willing that any should stay a babe.  Paul admonished the people and said he felt bad that he had to feed them milk instead of meat.  Hebrews 5:12-14 says, “For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.  For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”

          I know people who were saved before I was born, but they don’t believe half of what I believe.  They have not seen a third of what I have experienced in Jesus.  Many of those who are ordained to be intercessors have not passed the baby stage!  They should be busting heaven wide open, and sometimes staying up all night long in prayer.  They should be fasting and praying and seeking God for days on end where nobody should be able to get in their house for the glory of God. 

Rather than seeing visions of open heaven before their face, they are watching television.  They set evil things before their eyes when God wants to set holy things there.  Psalm 101:3 says, “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.”  God wants His people on fire again, full of faith, so they will watch miracles flow. 

          Jesus couldn’t do anything in that place because of unbelief.  Belief comes from a Christian’s heart, not his mind.  Romans 10:10 says, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

          You don’t believe with your mind.  If you are saved, your heart and your mind will fight on a regular basis.  The more your heart is lifted up toward God, the more your mind will fight it.  Philippians 2:5 says, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:”  How are we going to do that? 

Ephesians 5:26 says, “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”  You need to quit thinking what you think, and think what God thinks.  How do we know what God thinks?  You read it in the Bible.  You need to fast it in, read it in, and pray it in deep and hard and keep a hold of it.  Don’t let it go.

Philippians 2:12 says, “. . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”  You can’t cram your mind full of a bunch of junk and God’s Word too.  There is only so much your brain will absorb.  We hear of people cramming for tests the night before the big finals.  We are going to have a big final one of these days, and a big trumpet is going to sound.  Will you pass the test? 

People don’t realize they are cramming a bunch of unnecessary information into their minds with television, radio, music, and unnecessary reading.   They need to fill up with the Word of God!  Matthew 5:8 says, “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”

Isaiah 26:3 says, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”  That is a promise.  If you don’t have perfect peace, your mind is not stayed on the Lord.  If you are confused, worried and fearful, get your mind on the Lord.  If things torment you, your mind is stayed on unbelief. 

Romans 14:23 says, “. . . for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”  We know Christians have some unbelief, so we know there are Christians that have sin.  Can a Christian sin?  Yes he can, because he is not dead yet.  He is not permitted to sin, but he has the potential.  I am NOT “once saved, always saved” doctrine.  I believe you can lay your life down, and you can take it right back up again, but if God smote us to the wall every time we did something of unbelief, every one of us would be in hell already. 

I am going to preach the “holier than thou” people right out the door!  These know all about the Word of God, but they can’t pray the prayer of faith.  They say, God send revival, but they can’t pray that revival down.  That tells me they know to do right, but they aren’t doing all they need to do to get it done.

Some people say they’ve done all they are supposed to do, and God is not answering.  God is not a liar so they must be mistaken!  Hebrews 11:6 says that God, “. . . is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

Can a Christian have a secret sin he doesn’t know about?  David prayed with all his heart and asked God if there was any hidden sin in him.  Psalm 139:23-24 says, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

Some so called Christians will chew on you.  How is your temper lately?  Are you mad or melancholy?  In the natural when somebody busts you in the mouth you will get mad and rail or be melancholy and say, Poor me.  If you go the godly way you will say, Lord, not my will but thine be done, and turn the other cheek.   

Jesus didn’t come back at them.  1 Peter 2:23 says, “Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:”  He is our example.

This is how you are purged.  Generally, He will deal with your temper, your lust and covetousness, your religion, your respect (you feel you don’t have any).  If you are dead, you don’t feel that smite on the cheek, and you won’t hear that insult.  If you are dead to self, you won’t get mad.  If you insult me, then you are at fault.  I am telling you what it takes to get into that place of God to get the victory.  Let’s get with it then!

Jesus could do no mighty works in His church in that particular place, because of unbelief.  Jesus comes, and on many occasions He can do no mighty work now.  I have felt the anointing in places to where God could do just about anything He wanted to do, but nobody believed for it. 

Can a Christian sin?  We have to get the sin out of the church.  The book of James is very direct and it is written to the church in its entirety.  James 4:1 says, “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?”  Verse 2 says, “Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”

Some people in church drive away God’s Spirit.  They fight and war, yet they have not.  What does that mean?  We find it all cleared up in Verse 3 which says, “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”  You ask not for your needs, nor of the desires of your heart sent from God, but for your lusts.  Isaiah 58:4 says some people even fast sometimes for the wrong reasons.

Jesus told of the Pharisee who fasted twice in the week.  He said he thanked God that he was not like the old publican, but he did not come back justified.  He represented the church, and they are proud and puffed up.  They are not willing to give up what it takes to get more of God. 

Some people want the Holy Ghost because they want preeminence over their brethren which don’t have it yet.  Jealousy and competition are to consume it on your lust. 

Are you fasting so you can tell someone how long you fasted?  Sometimes we have to tell others we are in a fast in order to explain ourselves, but you aren’t supposed to announce it.  If you fast to be heard on high, you are not losing every weight that besets you.  You are missing God.

A lot of people are afflicted in their body because they have unforgiveness and bitterness in their heart.  Some even have not forgiven the dead!  You have to come to Jesus and get that cleansed. 

Can a Christian sin?  You know he can.  No, he is not supposed to, but he does.  Sometimes it is in ignorance.  When it is brought to the light he is supposed to get it under the blood and be cleansed and go on in God again. 

Hebrews warns us about willful sin.  Hebrews 10:26-27 says, “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.”

If God deals with you after you have sinned, and you reject Him, you are not covered by the blood of the Lamb anymore, and you won’t go to heaven.

Every Christian has sinned many times.  So what do we do with that Scripture?  Does that mean we are all damned?  No, unless you don’t get it under the blood of Jesus.  Do you want to know what it takes to have miracle working revival?  Get the sin out of the church.  Are you saved?  Are you part of the church? 

James 4:3 says, “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”  A Christian who is afflicted in his body yet has unbelief in his heart.  God will allow him to remain sick, because it is more important for God to get the unbelief out of your life than it is to get the sickness out.  God would rather have you afflicted and full of pain than have you well and full of the devil. 

Do you want to be healed?  Do you want to have miracle working revival?  We have to get the sin out of the church.  We have to get the sin out of YOU.  I am getting this from heaven.  James 4:17 says, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”

1 John 1:6 is talking to the church.  John was a Christian writing under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.   1 John 1:6 says, “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:”  If you say you are a Christian, but you flub up from time to time, without repenting and getting forgiveness, you are a liar and you do not the truth.  You are supposed to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 

1 John 1:7-8 says, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”  Chew on that a while.  He said WE, and he wasn’t talking to sinners.  

Verse 9-10 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”  You are not even saved if you say you have not sinned against God as a Christian.  You make God a liar and His Word is not in you.  Every Christian has sinned, and I include myself. 

Every one of us has a certain amount of unbelief, and that is sin; otherwise we would be doing what Jesus did.  If you don’t have any other sin in your life but unbelief, that is sin.  In other words, you have not pressed on in like you know to do. 

The disciples were following Jesus, but they could not cast the devil out of the lunatic boy.  Jesus told them it was because of unbelief.  Jesus said in Matthew 17:21, “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”

Their sin was unbelief, but their sin was in the form of not enough prayer time, and not enough fasting time.  That was their sin at that moment.  Unbelief is not of faith.  Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. 

We have sin in this church.  I heard of a man who boasted to an evangelist that there was no sin in his church.  They just had to work on sinners “out there”.  If I remember correctly, the very first night at the altar call some of his deacons were in the altar repenting of sin. 

It doesn’t matter what form unbelief comes in; God hates it.  1 John 5:10 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.”  A liar does not have the truth dwelling in him, and liars don’t enter the pearly gates. 

I am not talking about a Christian who is not far enough along to believe the higher things in God.  According to what a man has, it is accounted to him, and that is all.  As he grows in the Lord, and he is expected to, he is accounted for more.  Luke 12:48 says, “. . . unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.” 

James 4:4 says, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” 

A Christian can have faith in God enough to pray and believe Him for certain blessings, but have enough unbelief in him that he won’t abide in the Lord to get those blessings.  Rather, he will pray amiss that he might consume it upon himself so he can boast about it in the world and be a friend of the world. 

James equates a Christian who is playing around like that, or a Christian who is willfully not yet going into the deep things of God, the same as an adulterer or an adulteress.  A Christian who knows to do right and does it not, to him it is sin. 

I know some “holier than thou” people in the church world who believe they can behave like the world, yet pray the prayer of faith.  They are in sin and just as bad off in that hour, especially the more they know, as a whore on the streets.  She has no power to cease from doing what she is doing.  The “holier than thou” person is not doing what they know to do and they are resisting and denying the power to cease from sin.  Sin in the church is worse than sin in the world.

God does not expect the sinner to believe until He draws him by His Spirit.  He sends a portion of faith to him to enact that heart’s desire to change.  He draws that heart and pulls him to the altar and saves him. 

In the church body, the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ is already there and the Spirit of the Father has already baptized them in the Holy Ghost, yet they willfully sin against the Lord.  They say they do not want to go any further and they dry up.  They are happy where they are, and they are going to stay cold and dry.  They teach others to do the same thing. 

You can live without sin and unbelief.  That is to say, you are filled with faith.  You can have 100 percent faith, 100 percent discernment, 100 percent of the nine gifts of the Spirit, and walk100 percent of the fruit of the Spirit, walking just like Jesus walked, and living like He lived.  You can have the anointing that He had.  I believe the apostle Paul attained that and others too.

God knows that we are at different stages in our walk with God.  He knows we’ve had trials.  He knows the devil lies to us and trips us up.  He knows people who were supposed to be good Christians messed us up, but it is time we quit pointing the finger at everybody else, and point it at ourselves.  We need to say, Lord, what must I do to be delivered from this and come on for Jesus?

1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  He will cleanse us of that sin of temper, anger, fear, unbelief, and all other sins that we yield to on a regular basis. 

Hebrews 12:1 says, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”

2 Corinthians 10:12 says, “. . . but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” 

Peter’s shadow healed the sick, but look at what Peter was capable of doing.  Even as a follower of Jesus, he denied Him three times.  He cursed and swore he did not know Jesus.  What is a Christian capable of doing?  Grace is an awesome thing. 

The trumpet is going to sound in the twinkling of an eye (see 1 Corinthians 15:52).  I have heard that is approximately seven millionths of a second.  You don’t have time to repent.  Would you even hear the trumpet? 

What happens with a mess up in a Christian’s life?  Grace.  We are operating in grace, but God doesn’t tolerate things but so long.  In Genesis 6:3 God said, “. . . My spirit shall not always strive with man. . . .”  If you repent and get it under the blood of Jesus after you commit iniquity, God will forgive you.  You must mean it and pray through.  The longer and the older you get in the Lord, the deeper you get in God, the less iniquity He expects in your life.  The more he expects you to walk perfectly and go on to higher places in Christ.

Moses just hit a rock twice, and he didn’t go into the promised land.  If you throw fits, you won’t go in the Rapture.  I’m trying to get it right.  I am not going to tell you I am not going to mess up, but I am going to do my best.  I am going to pray, God, crucify this old man.  The new man in me does not sin.  Christ in me, the hope of glory does not sin.  He knew no sin then, and He knows no sin now.  The Holy Ghost doesn’t sin.  It is blasphemy to think that he does.  Everybody should be baptized in the Holy Ghost. He will get the sin out of us; He drives the devil out. 

Many refuse to hear this message.  They reject it, because they do not fear the Lord.  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.  They lose their wisdom and their knowledge how to be healed, saved, and set free.  Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. . . .” 

Ephesians 2:1-3 says, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”

The prince of the power of the air is the devil.  The children of disobedience are sinners.  By our old nature we are the children of wrath and disobedience and rebellion.  That is what we are trying to overcome, and Jesus said that he that overcometh shall inherit all things. 

Ephesians 2:4-6 says, “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”

Jesus said John 14:2, “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”

Notice in Ephesians 2:1 it says, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;”  Verse 5 says, “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)”  He is talking about when we were dead in sins.  I believe he means in this body of death mentioned in Romans 7:24-25 where Paul said, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”  Verse 25 tells us God made a way, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. . . .”

There is a war going on in the minds and souls of men.  When the Spirit of the Lord comes in, He enters a vessel that does not want to serve God except by the willing spirit of that vessel.  The mind fights Him, but because faith in a man’s heart is accounted to him for righteousness, He will dwell there.  He dwells there to overcome you, and to destroy and crucify your old nature, and make you like Jesus.  That is why there is such a war.  Things on the outside as well as the inside are part of that war. 

1 Peter 4:12 says, “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:”  It is to crucify you and set you in the heavenly place Jesus has prepared for you and me.  We are on our way; we have not arrived. When we get there nobody will have to be told, because signs will follow us.  It will happen when the church gets rid of stubborn will, unholy pride, and self that tries to override Christ’s nature in us!  Amen.

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PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY

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These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord.  Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

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