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The Great Tribulation

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , , , , on August 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Hebrews 11:8-10

We are now entering into the end of the Great Tribulation, which is the worst part of the tribulation and when many things are going to happen, like losing our houses, our bank accounts, and our present way of life that we know and love so much.  In this time, we must still hold fast to the promises of God and carry on His work for the deliverance of men.  God is strengthening us at this time in our walk with Him.  God is not expecting us to do it by our own will, but He is expecting us to believe Him. 

Somebody was sharing about Abraham and depicted him as an ordinary person, which he was.  But at the same time God testified of him several times in the Scriptures that “Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.”  Abraham was righteous in his generation, although the requirements in his day were not what God would require of us today.  The Blood of Jesus was not yet shed and the Holy Ghost was not yet given.  How blessed we are! 

In order for us to be found in the same heavenly places were faithful Abraham was, we have to be part of what the Bible calls the Firstfruits company.  Some of us might be saying to ourselves, “I do not know if I am in the Firstfruits Company.  I do not know if I am worthy.  I do not know if I will make it.  I probably am not because I slipped and fell last week, and nobody knows.  The people in church do not suspect that I get mad sometimes, and curse other times, etc., etc.”  All these thoughts are designed by the devil to convince us that we are not of God.  But the truth is that for us to be worthy, we only have to trust God.  God has a different design.  God’s design is that by faith we can lay hold of His promises and that by faith we can enter into His everlasting Kingdom.  If we sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ; and with the remission of sins comes purity and holiness. 

God is not asking you to do it by your integrity or by your own personal character.  God is asking you to put your character, integrity and abilities aside, by faith lay hold of the promises, and like the publican (Ref. Luke 18:13) to drop on your knees and admit your unworthiness.  Ask God to help you and to save you from the traps and snares of the devil; and say, “Lord, I believe; help Thou my unbelief.” 

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, April 1997, pg. 14-15)

Thought for today: Remember it is by faith that we can lay hold of His promises and by faith we can enter into His everlasting Kingdom.

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One Thing God Will Never Do for You

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , , , on June 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Exodus 20:1

We have been talking about coming out of our country.  God said to Abraham, “Get thee out of thy country…”  And He is saying the same to us.  But, there is something else in this verse from Genesis 12:1 that is very peculiar.  God said, “Get thee out…and from thy kindred (from your family).”  What does it mean?  He is talking about the host of spirits that govern your family.

Let’s say, for example, that you come from Kenya.  In that case, you have a Kenyan heritage of spirits; all the hoodoo men that have been in your family coming from way down—they come up to you.  God says that you must stop them by coming out from your kindred.  Now, we are not talking about you physically coming out.  Physically coming out might help a little, but we are talking about you spiritually coming out of your kindred and from your father’s house.  There are certain spirits that governed your father’s house; when your father came to Jesus, he stopped them and gave them a blow, but they came to you. 

Let me tell you this: Every disobedient child goes right back to the ancient spirits that rule their whole family.  Do you know why?  Because God says that He will visit the sins of the fathers unto “…the third and fourth generation of them that hate me” (Exodus 20:5).  In other words, “…to them that are disobedient to Me.” 

Glory to God!  GET OUT of your country and from your kindred.  REJECT the rulership of the spirits that ruled your family.   Tell the spirits that they have come to their Waterloo and that they are at the point where they will be destroyed! 

Do you know what happened when I got saved?  I was the first one in my family that got saved.  Spiritually speaking, I was a very violent person.  I know this because the spirits tell me that I am violent.  I was merciless.  I would get hold of a spirit and say, “In the Name of Jesus Christ, I condemn you to the abyss!  GO!”  So, they were being murdered.  That is what the spirits said, “You are a murderer.”  I murder spirits!  Isn’t that wonderful?

I tell you, the spirits even sent some brethren to me.  They said, “Brother duCille, we think you are doing wrong, because when the demoniac came before Jesus, the spirits asked Jesus not to cast them into the abyss, but to cast them into the pigs; and Jesus had mercy on them.  It is not right for you to be casting spirits into the abyss.”  I asked Jesus, “What is this?” and the Lord gave me an answer to give them.  I said to them, “How long ago was that?”  They said, “Nearly two thousand years ago.”  I said, “Well, the time must come for them to be cast into the abyss!  They were saying to Jesus, ‘It is too early.  Give us a break.’  Jesus agreed.  It was too early, because if Jesus had cast all the spirits into the abyss, there would be none left to torment you.”  I believe that the time has come for us to stop these spirits from bothering our families. 

The Bible said, “GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY, AND FROM THY KINDRED.”  Do not be a duCille anymore.  Do not be what you are any more.  REJECT IT!  FORSAKE IT!  TURN TO GOD! 

Are you able to do it?  I will give you a secret.  This is one thing that God will never do for you.  YOU have to do it.  God will not reject the demons that rule your family on your behalf.  You have to do it and let me tell you brethren, they are strong!  But God said, “Get out of it.”  Say, “I REJECT IT!”  Reject it!  Fall to your knees.  Bow before God!  Amen! 

“Get thee out of thy father’s house…And I will make of thee a great nation.” 

The promise is to you.  God was saying to Abraham, “The promise is to you and to your children and to everyone that the Lord God shall call.”  The promise is yours!  We do not have to be crawling on the ground any more.  It is time for the church to rise up and for you to take your place before God!

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, July 1998, pg. 9-11)

Thought for today: Are you on the right track rejecting the spirits that have held your family for generations?  Rise up and give the devil a fresh blow!

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Are You in the Kingdom of God?

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , , on June 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Hebrews 11:8-10

Have you ever thought about why God said to Abraham to get out of his country, from his kindred, and from his father’s house?  And also, why is He telling us the same thing?  The reason is that if you do not get out, you will not get in.  Let me say it again: If you do not get out, you will not get in!  God is calling men and women and children into His kingdom and He said, “I offer you a holy priesthood.  I offer you royalty.”  However, you must come out if you are to come into what God is giving. 

Now, this is no joke!  This is not some preaching that we are putting over you.  This is reality!  The other things you are dealing with they are not reality!  They are for a time.  They will pass away!  Your color will pass away.  Your nationality will pass away.  All these things that you have in you that you believe are real—they are unreal!

“I offer you a royal priesthood, a holy nationality!” God said.  God is recruiting people unto the heavenly Kingdom, but unless you get out of the kingdom under which you are ruled, you will never get into the Kingdom of God.

The question is, “When I get saved and I get baptized in the Holy Spirit, am I not in the kingdom of God?”  We teach and we preach on this subject, but most of the brethren with which we fellowship do not believe this one point that I am bringing to you now.  You are born again; there is no doubt about it.  Jesus shed His Blood for you.  He came, you opened yourself to Him, He baptized you with the Holy Spirit, and your spirit is completely taken by God.  Now you have a spirit that is not yours.  You cannot control your spirit for your spirit is taken by God.  So then, your spirit will always be coming against the wrong things that you do.  But are you in the Kingdom of God?  The Kingdom of God is in you, but are you in the Kingdom of God?  What is the meaning of this question?  The only way we can find if we are in the Kingdom of God is if we understand what being in the Kingdom of God means.

Let us let us take it from the natural.  We are in the kingdom of the United States of America.  We have to obey the laws.  Every one of you who came here by motor vehicle had to have a license.  You have to pay for your license by the year.  Your license has your photograph, your identity, and it is all done by the government under this kingdom where you are.  Now, you can drive without a license, but it is called a crime.  They will arrest you for driving without a license.  You say, “I didn’t do anything!  I only drove without a license,” but you are in this kingdom and so you must obey the laws and the rules of this kingdom or else your actions are illegal and criminal.  That means that you are under the headship of the government of the United States, and whether you like him or not, the President of the United States is the head of the government of the United States.  You do not have to like him, but what he says is going to affect you. 

Now, let us go to the spiritual.  To be in the Kingdom of God you have to be under the headship of Jesus Christ.  That is, you have to be obeying the laws of Jesus.  You have to be a citizen in good standing and not a criminal, because, as in our previous example, a criminal is still in the kingdom of the United States, but he is either in prison or he is working against the law and the law is working against him and sooner or later he is going to get hit and taken.  Do you understand? 

So, in order to be in the Kingdom of Christ Jesus, you must be under the headship of Christ Jesus.  Now, are there Christians who are not under the headship of Jesus Christ?  Yes!  There are people who are born again and saved by the Blood of Jesus Christ, but they are not under the headship of Jesus Christ.  They are against the very Kingdom that has redeemed them and purchased them.

We are saying then that to be in the Kingdom of Jesus you have to come out of the kingdom of the enemy. 

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, July 1998, pg. 7-9)

Thought for today: Let us come under the headship of Jesus Christ by the simple fact of obedience to His leading so that we may be found in the Kingdom of God.

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Relinquishing Your National Identity

Posted in Christian Walk, tagged , , , , on June 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Scripture reading: Genesis 12:1-5

I am going to read something for you that God said to Abraham, but it is something that is being said to you.  It applies in a way differently to you than it did to Abraham, but it is the same word and it has the same meaning.  We are going to look for what God meant when He said these things to Abraham.  This is what we call “exegesis.”  Always look for the exegesis: God said so and so, but what did He mean? 

Let us go to the Genesis 12:1, “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.”

The Lord said this to Abraham and we want to know what the meaning of this is.  Why did He put this in the Bible?  Why should I be interested in what God said to Abraham?  Do you follow what I mean?

This is your Bible.  God put it in the Bible.  Men fought to take it out.  Men wanted to destroy the Bible.  Men killed and did their best to destroy it and it could not be destroyed.  They took some of the scrolls and burned them!  Yet, the people who burned them are past and gone and the scrolls remain.  Hallelujah!  They never did get it. 

So, I am asking you, does this word about Abraham mean something to you, or to us?  Why did God put it in the Word?  Why did God fight so hard that this word could come to us?  God is saying to you here in this verse that you must relinquish your national identity.

That is hard.  That is very, very hard.  If you are born a black man, you like being a black man.  Some people do not know that.  Some of you, brethren, do not know that the people who are black like to be black.  If you could give them the choice to be white, they would not want it, because there is a certain feeling that you have inside, that you are something special. 

When my brothers and I grew up, we felt that we were made out of iron.  We were strong.  We were fighters.  We were on top of the world.  I know the people in Africa feel that way too.  But then I found out afterwards that everybody feels that way!  You on one side, you are feeling your feeling, and you do not know what the other person is feeling on his side.  I know that the Germans feel that way, and the Russians feel that way.  Everybody feels that way and nobody is finding out what the other person feels. 

So, there will be wars until Jesus comes, because war is in the heart of man and it is the spirit of the antichrist.  I want you to take this—do not take it with a grain of salt.  Take it and believe it: it is the spirit of the antichrist that makes men want to reign and rule over one another.  Anywhere you find men who want to rule and reign and be the boss and be tops, it is the spirit of the antichrist.  That is, unless it is where you want to be tops in Christ—then you are bottom.

Those who want to be tops in Christ—they are the least.  They go around washing everybody’s feet and letting people walk on them.  Oh, you do not like that, but that is the way you are tops in Christ.  “Recompense to no man evil for evil…but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:17,21).  That is being tops in Christ.  God worked it out that the spirit of the antichrist is the one that likes to rule and reign over others and the Spirit of Christ is the one that wants to rule and reign with Christ. 

Genesis says, “Get thee out of thy country (thy national identity)…!”  Do not be an American anymore!  Do not be a Kenyan anymore.  Do not be a Jamaican anymore.  Do not be a Polish anymore.  Do not be German anymore.  Just belong to the new nation, the royal priesthood, the peculiar people.  My God!  Isn’t this what God is asking us to do?  He approached Abraham with this, and He said, “Get out Abraham!  Get out of here and stay out of here!”  Abraham knew it was God who spoke to him.

Now, I am not saying that it is easy.  It is difficult not to be black, when you are black.  God sent me to His people.  He did not send me to a color.  I have to recognize God’s people regardless of their color.  There is something else that we need to recognize and that is that you really do not have any color!  Your color is a deception!  It is an outward facade that you are wearing to deceive everybody that you are black or white when really you are supposed to be a spirit.  A spirit does not have any color!  Do you understand?  You are not what you seem to be.

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, July 1998, pg. 2-3,6-7)

Thought for today: Have you relinquished your national identity yet or are you still holding on to the roots of your inheritance?  Bring this matter before the Lord and have Him speak to you so that at the end of the day you are counted among those who have overcome.

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