Participants: Ivor Myers, Atonte Myers
Series Code: BOF
Program Code: BOF000023
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00:15 Welcome to BATTLES OF FAITH
00:16 We're your host, Ivor and Atonte Myers. 00:19 Today our program is entitled, the Science of the 00:24 Laws of the Kingdom. 00:25 All these programs are to help you, like tools, to help 00:29 you fight the battle, that's why we call the program 00:32 Battles of Faith! 00:34 Satan is on the warpath, but God has given us so many 00:37 wonderful tools to help fight in our spiritual walk. 00:40 We want to help you to do that here on Battles of Faith. 00:42 This program, The Science of Laws of the Kingdom is 00:46 going to reveal that as there aren't laws in a natural 00:50 world, so there are laws in the spiritual world. 00:55 If we abide by those laws in the spiritual world we will 01:00 find that our walk with Christ will be much easier walk, 01:04 because we are actually walking and living according to 01:08 those laws and those principles. 01:11 In fact there is a correlation between many of the 01:18 scientific laws that scientists have so-called discovered 01:23 and the laws that govern the spiritual realm. 01:27 We are going to take a look at some of those laws today. 01:31 There is a statement from a book, Child Guidance, Atonte 01:34 that I would like you to read. 01:35 It actually shows us the correlation between the laws 01:39 of the natural world and the laws of the spiritual world. 01:42 It says, "the same power that upholds nature is also 01:46 working in man. The same great laws that guide alike the star 01:50 and the Atom control human life. The laws that govern 01:54 the hearts action, regulating the flow of the current 01:57 of life to the body, are the laws of mighty intelligence 02:01 that has the jurisdiction of the soul. " 02:04 Right, that gives us this idea that as there are laws 02:09 in the physical world that govern the physical world, 02:13 so there are laws in the spiritual world that govern 02:17 the spiritual world. 02:20 We want to have our viewers understand that these laws 02:24 are so important, there is a reason why we have to watch 02:28 over children when they are little, because 02:30 children do not understand the laws, for example, 02:33 of gravity, and because they don't understand these laws 02:37 they will do crazy things like jump off of high things 02:40 not realizing that there is a law in place. 02:44 In breaking that law you can get hurt, experience pain 02:50 suffering and etc. 02:51 In the same way there are laws in the spiritual world 02:55 that as we become aware of them, they are magnificent 02:59 laws that God has put in place that help us on 03:03 our Christian walk. 03:04 We have been looking at the issue of the entertainment 03:08 industry, we've been looking at the French Revolution 03:12 and we have seen this principle of the Science of 03:15 Evolution, falsely called, sprang out of the French 03:19 Revolution, out of the abyss. 03:20 How this is attempting to manipulate our environment 03:26 and have the world transformed or adapt to the law of 03:32 lawlessness, if you will, the law of chaos. 03:35 Well we are looking today at the laws of the spiritual 03:40 realm and scientific laws, we have a graphic here. 03:44 The scientific law is described in three simple ways. 03:53 It's very simple, observable, repeatable, and 03:56 predictable. Observable meaning that we can see it, 03:59 repeatable meaning if we do it time and time again, 04:02 the same thing happens, 04:05 and predictable really means the same thing, I can 04:08 guarantee that every time I drop the pen, what is 04:11 going to happen? 04:12 It's going to hit the floor. It's going to hit the floor! 04:14 That makes something a law, it is unchangeable. 04:18 In the same way, I would like to put up on our screen, 04:22 what a theory is, according to 04:24 Webster's dictionary. 04:35 I would put evolution under a theory. 04:40 It has yet to be proven, it is a mere guess. 04:44 You know millions of billions of years ago... 04:47 This is what could have happened! 04:49 This is what could have happened it is a guess, 04:51 it's guesswork. 04:52 Now Atonte, interestingly enough when we come to the word of 04:56 God, the Word of God is no guess work. 04:59 The plan of salvation is no guess work. 05:03 These are fixed laws that we are speaking of here. 05:08 We want to go ahead and jump into one of our first laws. 05:11 We are going to be discussing two laws today. 05:13 One of our first laws of the kingdom of Faith is simply 05:19 this, the law of going broke. 05:22 The law of going broke, you would say, the law of going 05:24 broke, I have never heard that law before. 05:26 You have! You never heard it put like that. 05:28 The law of going broke simply states this, going broke 05:33 pays... Atonte: how can that be possible? 05:37 When everyone around the world is trying to get paid 05:40 so they don't go broke. 05:42 Going broke pays, we are talking in the sense of the 05:46 spiritual realm, what does it mean, going broke pays? 05:51 First of all we want to see if this law of going broke 05:55 pays is observable. 05:56 In order to do that we are going to go to the book of 06:01 1 Kings 17, and in 1 Kings chapter 17 there is a story 06:06 of a widow, or rather Elisha show who comes 06:11 across a widow. 06:13 We are going to just read the story described in verses 06:16 8 to 16, but we're going to read verses 11 and 12. 06:19 There will be a few other verses so we can get 06:22 the picture here. 06:23 1 Kings 17:11 and 12, Atonte would you read them? 06:52 Now this here is a time of famine. 06:55 Elisha is hungry and thirsty and he asks this widow woman 06:59 who was passing by to fetch him some water, that was in 07:03 verse 10, and as she is going he asked her would you 07:07 bring me something to eat as well. 07:08 She says listen, I have nothing, we are going to prepare 07:13 the last thing we have then I am my son are going to die. 07:17 Notice what Elisha says, verse 13. 07:34 Elisha is about to reveal to us the principle, the law of 07:39 going broke pays. 07:41 Notice what he says in verse 14. 07:55 Elisha here is making a challenge to this woman. 07:57 He is saying, if you go broke for God, I'm putting this 08:01 in my words now, you go broke for God, you will be paid. 08:05 You will be filled, and what do we see happening in this 08:09 story, the woman goes in verse 15, "she went and did" 08:13 "according to Elisha and she and he and her house did" 08:17 "eat many days. " 08:20 Which in your margin, really means a full year. 08:24 I never seen a days worth of meals go a whole year. 08:28 I wish it did. 08:29 That's right, and you see here this principle that God 08:32 is laying out in the Scripture, that Elisha lays out 08:35 this law of going broke pays. 08:38 We see that this law is observable. 08:41 The next question I want to ask, is it repeatable? 08:45 In other words is this really a law, or was it just a 08:49 one-time thing, a random thing. 08:52 No, we will see this law is indeed repeatable. 08:55 We are look at another story and this one is found in 09:00 2 Kings 4:1-7, and I will go ahead and read this story 09:04 so you can get the picture and will be able to hear this 09:08 law as the story is read. 09:39 Here it is a Atonte, she has one pot of oil and you can 09:42 already get the sense that this pot of oil is going to 09:46 play a very special role. 09:47 It is all she has left. 09:49 Elisha goes on to say, in verse 3. 10:13 Now I can imagine this lady scratching her head, how am 10:16 I going to pour, how am I going to give all this oil 10:19 into all these empty vessels, to even have one full? 10:23 But it goes on, verse 5. 10:48 They had borrowed all the vessels that they could. 11:00 Here we find again this principle of going broke pays. 11:05 What does this really mean? 11:06 What God is trying to say is it is not if I spend my 11:09 last dollar, He is going to make me a millionaire, but 11:12 when we spiritually go broke for Jesus. 11:16 When we give all that we have in us for Him, that is 11:21 when we receive the blessing. 11:24 That is when we get paid as it were, with that wonderful 11:28 gift of fire for the Lord. 11:32 Being on fire for God and serving Him with all our heart. 11:35 This is how we get paid, so to speak. 11:38 Some of you might be familiar with the song, I Surrender 11:42 All, well we learn some new words to that song. 11:46 It's called He surrendered all, and it shows how Jesus, 11:49 the first 3 verses of the song shows how Jesus 11:52 surrendered all first. 11:54 He left heaven and came down to say sinful man, 11:58 you and I. 11:59 Then in the last verse it says, I Surrendered All, because 12:02 He surrendered all, we can surrender all. 12:05 He is our perfect example. 12:08 Now we want to look at our third question. 12:10 We see that the law is observable. 12:13 We have now seen that the law is predictable, 12:16 or rather repeatable. 12:18 We have seen it happen more than once and now we want to ask the 12:22 question, is the law predictable? 12:24 Is this principle of going broke pays predictable? 12:28 In other words, will this happen all the time, or will it 12:32 just occur some of the time, in some of the places. 12:35 We are going to see the law is predictable. 12:37 In other words, we can rest assured that if we give all 12:42 for God, He will bless us with all. 12:46 We are not talking about in the physical realm, we are 12:49 talking about spiritually speaking. 12:53 Let's take a look at Matthew 14:16-21. 12:58 This is the story of a young boy who was walking around 13:02 with five loaves of bread and two fish. 13:07 There was a great multitude, look at verse 15. 14:03 Now let me say something here. 14:05 I said this was the story of a little boy with two 14:08 loaves, but there is another story that lays out the 14:10 same principle where there are 4000, I believe. 14:13 This one has the story for boy with the loaves and fish, 14:18 the principle here is the same. 14:20 We see here that from this little, five loaves, two fish, 14:25 it was multiplied into a very great number. 14:30 This law of going broke, giving all that we have to Jesus, 14:36 Jesus then multiplies it beyond our dreams. 14:41 Is nothing within ourselves that can help us to be able 14:46 to live that life that Jesus wants us to live. 14:48 All we can do is surrender everything, going broke. 14:52 If we do that, He is saying, I'll do the rest. 14:55 I will help you the rest of the way. 14:58 This is a law, we can look at the story of the widow. 15:01 The widow's mite, a widow comes to the Temple, Christ 15:05 and His disciples are watching and she puts in all 15:09 that she has, two mites. 15:12 The Lord says, bless her for this action and she will 15:15 be remembered for this. 15:17 The principle there again is revealed, going broke pays. 15:21 She gave all that she had and the Lord blesses her. 15:25 Even though she could not see the blessing, the Lord 15:28 had blessed her and we believe she will be in heaven. 15:31 This was the pattern of her life. 15:33 She was living according to this principle 15:36 of going broke. 15:38 There is another story Atonte, of a rich young ruler 15:41 who did not want to live according to this principle. 15:44 God asked him, will you go broke? 15:47 Jesus asked him, will you go broke, will you live 15:48 according to this law? 15:50 Don't fear, going broke pays. 15:53 But this rich young ruler, when Jesus said to him sale 15:56 all you have and come and follow Me and you will have 15:59 riches in heaven. 16:02 He said no, I don't believe in that law, I don't believe 16:04 in that principle and he went away very sad. 16:07 When we don't live our lives according to the laws that 16:10 God has laid out, we are talking about the scientific 16:13 laws of the spiritual kingdom, true science. 16:17 We will walk away sad, we will live sad lives. 16:20 In each of our lives that the Holy Spirit is trying to 16:24 come close to and saying, are you willing to give that up? 16:29 Are you willing to go broke for Me? 16:31 We do not want to be like the rich young ruler and say 16:34 no, we want to be like these other examples in the Bible 16:37 and say yes Lord, I'm willing to give all that I have 16:40 for you, and God will bless. 16:43 The devil says hold onto this stuff, are you going to become 16:46 a Christian, be a Christian but to still hold on to some 16:50 of my stuff, or just change your name to Christian and 16:54 hold onto it and God says no. 16:56 Going broke pays, give all up for Him, give all into 17:02 Him, go broke. 17:03 There is a parable of a merchant man seeking goodly 17:06 pearls, and when he found one pearl of great price 17:10 went and sold how much? Most of what he had? No! 17:14 All of what he had, he understood this spiritual 17:18 principle that going broke pays. 17:21 The way Jesus states this law, we can find it in the 17:27 Beatitudes where Jesus says blessed are they who are 17:32 poor in spirit, poor in spirit. 17:35 Other translations read, happy are those who know their 17:40 spiritually poor, or how blessed are those who are 17:45 destitute in the spirit for the kingdom of heaven 17:49 belongs to them. 17:50 We use the term broke, hey I'm broke today. 17:53 What does that mean? It means I have no money. 17:56 I'm financially broke, and what God is saying is that 18:01 He wants us to become broke in spirit. 18:04 Not financially, broken spirit, going broke pays. 18:09 You want to be on fire for God, God says give Me 18:14 everything you have, give Me your whole heart, give Me 18:16 your whole mind, if you go broke I guarantee you that 18:19 I will fill you with the Spirit. 18:22 He can use us best in that state of mind because He 18:26 wants to come in to mold and shape us. 18:28 If we are still holding onto something it makes it very 18:30 difficult for Him. 18:32 He needs to have something that is void, 18:35 that has nothing, like the way the Earth was when He 18:38 created it, He wants to re-create us and needs us to be 18:42 broke, void, have nothing. 18:44 Jesus went broke for us, His body was broken for us 18:49 symbolizing that He had given all. 18:52 His everything for us, we ought to go broke for Him. 18:56 The second law, we've seen the law, it is observable, 19:00 it is repeatable, and it is predictable. 19:03 Now we want to get our second law very quickly. 19:07 It is another beautiful law Atonte, what goes down 19:10 must come up. 19:13 This is a law of the spiritual realm, the law of 19:15 God's kingdom, what goes down must come up. 19:20 We are going to ask the question first of all... 19:22 In the science world what goes up, must come down. 19:25 And that is true as well, when we look at the principle 19:28 of Lucifer and of Jesus. 19:30 We are going to talk about Lucifer for a second. 19:34 Lucifer desired to be what? Exulted and in so doing 19:38 he was brought down, the Bible says, to the pits. 19:42 What goes up, what exults itself, must come down. 19:46 We want to look at this other law, mainly what goes 19:50 down, must come up. 19:53 Let's see, first of all, if this is observable. 19:56 We see that it is observable when we look at the life 20:00 of Joseph, Joseph story covers much of the book of 20:03 Genesis, so we are not going to go through verses. 20:07 We will say that Joseph began his career, I would say 20:11 probably a little ignorant a little bit haughty. 20:16 Why do we say that, well he has this dream that his 20:21 brothers basically end up bowing down before him. 20:24 What does he do? He runs to his brothers and says, 20:28 hey guys, guess what? Look at what I dreamed. 20:31 In the Bible he actually says, 20:33 look at what I have dreamed. 20:36 It was as though he was taken the glory to himself which 20:39 also angered his brothers, his brothers were not right 20:43 in the first place, but this just added to their anger. 20:47 And their jealousy because he was favored among the 20:51 brothers and so here Joseph is saying look at my dream. 20:55 What happens? Because of Joseph spirit towards his 21:01 brothers, they did not like him. 21:03 What did they do? One day they took him and cast him 21:06 where? Down into a pit. 21:09 After he is cast into this pit, they bring him out and 21:14 sell him down into slavery. 21:19 Those who took them as a slave, brought him down, 21:24 the Bible says, into Egypt. 21:26 In Egypt he's taken to Potiphar's home and some 21:30 incidents happen that were unfortunate. 21:34 He was being blamed for something that he didn't do, 21:38 but nonetheless, he went further down into prison. 21:42 So you have Joseph going down, down, down. 21:45 Throughout his story you find Joseph now is having 21:51 dreams and now his response is not, hey I can tell you 21:57 the dream, it is dreams belong to God. 21:59 The interpretations belong to God. 22:01 You see this Spirit of humility coming about Joseph. 22:05 Even when he is brought to the Pharaoh to explain the 22:09 dream that the Pharaoh had had in terms of the famine 22:14 that was coming, his response has become so humbled. 22:17 In other words, there is nothing special in me, God is 22:21 the One, God is the One. 22:23 Before it was, look at what I had dreamed. 22:25 You guys are going to bow down to me. 22:27 What begins to happen, you see Joseph, who had been 22:31 brought down, down, down now exalted to the very 22:35 highest position in Egypt. 22:38 What goes down must come up. 22:42 Jesus is the same way, He had to come down to our Earth, 22:45 which had to be a humbling experience. 22:48 He is God in heaven and he was exalted after His death. 22:52 We are going to see that, one of the stories we are 22:56 going to use to show this story is predictable. 22:59 We are going to come back to that, but the second story 23:02 we can look at is, we have seen it is observable, 23:04 is it repeatable? 23:06 We will look at the life of Moses. 23:08 Moses is a man who was to be exalted into one of the 23:12 highest places in Egypt, but he had to be humbled. 23:16 Because of His exaltation, He was brought down. 23:19 I can do this by myself, I will lead Israel out of 23:24 captivity and because he slew a man, Lord says we will 23:29 have to humble you and he was brought down, down, down 23:32 to where this man was going to hold one of the highest 23:36 places in Egypt. 23:37 He spends 40 years in the wilderness herding sheep. 23:40 He is brought down, down, down and when Moses has learned 23:44 this lesson of humility the Bible actually describes him 23:49 as one of the most meekest man on the face of the earth. 23:54 Low and behold, who is the that God exults to the 23:58 position of leading all of Israel out of Egyptian 24:01 captivity, none other than Moses. 24:05 What goes down, must come up. 24:09 This is the principle that the devil comes and says, 24:12 hey, through the entertainment industry you can be 24:14 exalted, he wants us to follow those exulting themselves. 24:18 They have the spirit of, we are going up, we want to be 24:22 worshiped as stars. 24:24 We want to be worshiped as highly exalted and in so 24:27 doing people do not realize that they are being set up 24:30 for the principle that what goes up, must come down. 24:34 You know we travel and get a lot of questions. 24:36 What is wrong with Christian rap music, or Christian 24:40 rock 'n roll, or Christian Reggae? 24:41 What we are talking about right now is one 24:44 of the key issues. 24:46 You have to be very prideful to do that music. 24:50 There is no humbleness nor meekness about Christian rap, 24:53 or Christian rock. 24:56 All those things, it is impossible to be humble and meek 25:00 That is step number one to really having a close 25:04 connection with Jesus. 25:06 It is the principle of going down. 25:08 This world's principle is all about exalted self. 25:11 You see going up, up, up. 25:13 Jesus came, we seen it observable, we seen its 25:18 repeatable in the life of Moses, and now we are going to see that 25:21 this law is predictable. 25:22 Jesus, the highest placed in heaven, willingly came down, 25:27 He lowered Himself to become a man. 25:30 Not only did He lower Himself to become a man, He lowered 25:39 Himself to become a man with the nature of Adam after 25:47 his fall, so it is not as though He came in the perfection 25:49 of manhood, He came in the nature after the fall. 25:53 So He lowered Himself even further. 25:55 Not only that, He didn't come as a rich man, He came as 25:58 a poor man, lowering Himself even further. 26:01 He lowered Himself, the Bible says, even unto the death 26:05 of the cross, and it was at the death of the cross when 26:08 He lowered Himself even down into the grave. 26:11 We read in Matthew chapter 28, when Mary and the others 26:15 came looking for Jesus, the angel that was there said, 26:19 He is not here, He is risen. 26:23 What goes down, must come up. 26:27 Not only was He risen from the earth, but He was risen 26:29 with a glorified body. 26:32 Not only was He risen with the glorified body, but He 26:34 was risen all the way up into the heavens to the right 26:37 hand of God. 26:38 What goes down, must come up and the same principle 26:41 applies for us, we humble ourselves and step away from 26:45 the science of the devil which says, exults yourself. 26:48 Which manipulates the environment and says 26:51 do what you please. 26:52 We humble ourselves, even though we may go 26:56 down to the grave. 26:57 Even though we will go down to the grave, God says 27:01 don't worry the law is true even when it seems like, 27:04 He humbled himself and died and is now dead. 27:07 God says that's not the end, what goes down, 27:10 must come up. 27:13 And we want to come up in that glorious resurrection 27:16 of Jesus Christ and it would behoove us to begin to 27:19 live according to the principles. 27:21 We do not have to fear, I wonder if gravity is going to 27:24 hold me down today? No, as sure and certain as gravity 27:28 is, is this sure and certain as the law of what goes 27:31 down, must come up and the law of going broke pays 27:35 applies to us spiritually. 27:37 And God wants to exalt us spiritually, not before the 27:42 world, but change our hearts that we are riding high, 27:47 that we are overcoming Satan's temptations as he tempts 27:52 each and every day. 27:54 1 Peter 5:6 tells us "humble yourselves therefore unto 27:58 the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you 28:01 in due time. " 28:03 God bless you and we will see you next time. |
Revised 2014-12-17