The basis of all judgment at the threshold of the Kingdom is: do you minister to the Christ in your brother? Impart to him, then submit to the ministry that is created in him. Authority cannot serve itself. Authority must serve the Christ it imparts to others.
What was that great faith that exceeded anything our Lord had seen in Israel? What was the faith so great that at an instant a miracle appeared in a distant place? It took a Gentile soldier to understand that submission to Christ was the key to miracle faith.
Joshua was unique in his devotion to the Word. He was continually meditating on it. Ultimately God gave the next book of the Bible through him. Now the remnant who continually focuses on His Word and presence will also become God's living epistles in this hour—the Kingdom edition of God's Word.
Pressing Into Resurrection Life
We are close to the breakthrough of the ages. He is bringing many sons to glory. This message stirs the travail of our spirits to enter into the resurrection life for the physical body. This travail is what it's all about.
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2009-0509-1R)
The effective prayers of faith are not based upon our desperation so much as on our joyful awareness of His complete and perfect provision for us. This faith makes a happening of His promises. His victory is not a mere philosophy or doctrine; His victory must be expressed through us.
There are many levels people can live on, but the Lord prepares an abode for us with the Father. The Holy Spirit reveals the way to the Father—Christ and His fullness. The Advocate "stands alongside" His Father on our behalf. The Holy Spirit "stands alongside" us to bring all into one.
In ten minutes this message identified the true basis of divine order. The false order of the Roman church and the disorder of the Protestant churches must give way to scriptural churches who continue in the apostles' revelation teaching of the Scriptures. This is a short but basic essential revelation of divine order.
"...And The Word Was God"
The Living Word, when heard with faith, will reveal the Lord to the listener, like Jesus said of the Scriptures, "They testify of Me." The Living Word should not open up a conflict of doctrine. It should open up a walk with God. This tape includes a definition of The Living Word.
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2009-0509-2R)
For generations God's people have had mingled desires to know the Lord and a compulsion to flee from that awesome knowledge. The cry of our hearts must be, "That I may know Thee and the power of Thy resurrection." "Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord. He shall come to us..."
All our service will not please Him if we have broken the greatest commandment of all. We love Him with all our heart and all our works are a love-activity.
The story of the Scriptures is basically a revelation of God as a separate entity from His people to the ultimate, when His fullness indwells His sons. This is the thread from Genesis to Revelation. God grant us wisdom to understand that each successive step necessitates changes in our forms of worship, prayer, and service.
What deception! What unbelief! To have such a complete and perfect provision and to accept such an inferior experiencing of it. To be unconcerned about our failure to believe what God has set before us is unbelief. Let us bow down before Him in repentant worship.
Divine love is not manufactured by human discipline or diligence. The love we need is appropriated. We "put on" love. We appropriate it and draw it like sunshine. "Keep yourselves in the love of God."
The Lord has revealed a way to build the spiritual structure of the Church in a way that does not create a legal corporate structure hostile to the spiritual purposes of the Church. The Head of the Church has never quit. He has never needed anyone to act in His stead, as His voice. He is still capable of revealing His mind and choice concerning His Church.
God’s Blueprint For The Church
The Church is likened unto a building. From these passages in I Corinthians, we learn that there is a correct foundation and blueprint for the New Testament Church. It is God’s Word unfolded through apostolic ministries.
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2008-1113-1R)
How profound is this Word, yet how simple. The key is our relationship to the Lord as His worshipers. Our problems and our relations to one another in the Body of Christ—a thousand problems—are solved by our relation to the Lord.
The victory of Christ must not remain a dormant potential, but it must find through us a creative manifestation. Our intercession is based upon His victory and His provision. We intercede because His perfect provision remains only a potential without our persistent faith.
A very important and unique meeting with the Lord opening the door to Brother Stevens to a revelation of the Kingdom in both the Old and New Testaments. This Word contains much fresh revelation and will position us for a greater understanding of the Kingdom.
Do you ever feel that you are two different people, each in conflict with the other?... That your spirit and your flesh struggle for control? Are you tired of the ups and downs? Here is one big step to take into the spirit-level living in the Kingdom.
Our living active faith creates from the substance of God’s vast provision for us. Active faith cashes the check on the resources of God. This provokes and creates faith.
Conscience: Dead Or Alive?
Did you realize that the religious conscience we have is a degenerate, depraved thing in the Adamic nature, the atrophied capacity for worship that existed before the fall? How Satan would inspire, in the name of religion, works that are dead and contributions to produce those works. "The Lord purge your conscience from dead works."
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2009-0821-5R)
Jesus Christ is the Lord and Head of His Church. Through the gifts and
ministries of the Holy Spirit He can directly convey His will and purpose for
His Church.
Both Lord And Christ
In Acts 2 Peter emphasized the Lordship of Christ as well as His
redeeming work as Savior. Now the Kingdom dawns and He is Lord of lords
and King of kings, "both Lord and Christ."
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2008-1212-3R)
The Gospel of the Kingdom was preached with a power-Word. The promise of the Spirit was to be the power in their expanding witnessing. The key to this force and flow in our ministry is our waiting on the Lord. This Word gives the key of walking fully in all we believe.
We have the right to become God's sons, as well as the responsibility to be sons—participators in His deity. We predetermine that we will think and react as sons of God, and not on the human level.
Our hearts turn again to the Passover. The Passover is a journey that begins with a search of the heart. How can a righteous God not totally hate sin? How can a loving God give less than His only begotten Son to suffer for every man's sin? How can we serve such a God without hating sin as He hates it and seeking with our whole heart the righteousness He has provided? This Word was basic and moved every heart. This CD is one of the best.
Jesus is the source of revelation of the Father, and the Father is the revealer of His Son. If the Lord is real to us, blessed are we, "for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee but the Father." Then we become the channels of revelation of the Lord. He is coming to be admired in all that believe.
The prophet of the Kingdom is described in both what he does and what he is. The prophet's ear hears the Word of the Lord for the people and the cry of the people of the Lord. His motivations are refined and pure. His life is crucified with Christ. He is a speaker of the Word and a creator by the Word he speaks.
This is the Passover story of Christ our Lord at the age of twelve. It deals with our awareness of losing His presence and fellowship. This is a good message for young people.
With Great Boldness
In Christ we have access to come boldly to the throne of grace. "Boldness" in the Greek means "to come and speak freely." We speak freely to the Lord knowing how much He loves us. Out of our boldness to stand before Him comes the boldness to speak to others. Lord, we appreciate anew our privilege of access!
CD includes both of the above messages by John Robert Stevens (2008-1113-3R)
The Holy Spirit woos us into abiding in the presence of the Lord. He stirs again our primal hunger after the Lord. We delight in the Lord as we come to know that He delights in us. This is the milestone of His presence. We view a new age relationship to the Lord and we seal it in our hearts forever. This is an experience with the Lord!
Living Word Publications is a ministry of The Living Word, the publishing house of The Living Word Fellowship. The Living Word was established in 1968 out of a vision to capture, preserve, and publish the teachings of John Robert Stevens. Many of Stevens' sermons have been edited and published in books, manuals, and a weekly periodical titled "This Week."
The Living Word continues in its ministry today—carefully recording, editing, and publishing teachings of Stevens' successor, Gary Hargrave, and others who teach and minister the Word.
