What does it really mean to be in the SPIRIT or in the FLESH? Bertie Brits. October 18, 2015

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1 What does it really mean to be in the SPIRIT or in the FLESH? Bertie Brits October 18, 2015 GREETING Greeting in Jesus' name! Thank you for slotting in to this web cast. I know that you are going to be deeply blessed by today's message. If you slotted in for the first time, I want to welcome you and I want to invite you to go to Dynamicministries.com and click on Web Fellowship and then read about our Web Church. Our Web Church is much more than just a Sunday message or just a web site where you can just go and listen to some messages. There's a great web fellowship that we have. If you want to know more about it just go to our web site and click on Web Fellowship. There you will see all the introduction videos and you will see what we are all about. You can meet all of our web pastors, our face to face groups, interest groups and everything that we are about. Please go to that and you will be blessed and it will be an honor for us to serve you with the Gospel of Grace through our Web Fellowship. All of you that are slotting in faithfully, it's good to see you here again. It's good to know that you are slotted in. It's good to see people slot into this and to know that there are people that find this fellowship a home, a place of care, a place of a great impact because that is what is upon my heart, upon Helena's heart and our web pastors, the vision we have is just to minister to you. Thank you for allowing us to serve you OPENING PRAYER Let us just pray together. Father, I want to thank You so much that I can be here today and just minister Your Gospel to people all over the world. Thank You that You love people. Thank You, Father, that You have come to share Your quality of life with us and that we can feel Your life as we have encounters with You and as we minister to the people that You love, in Jesus' name. Thank You that You speak powerfully through me today... in Jesus' name, amen. My passion, my love, is just to see people's needs being met, seeing that they are equipped in the Gospel of Grace and then in a place where they are encouraged in the message of Grace, to the point that they say, We are stuck in this and we are never turning away from it! This is what it is all about until we see the return of Christ and the glorification of our bodies. Amen!

2 COMMUNION In our Web Fellowship, our custom is to have Communion together at every service and then play one song. During that song is a time of ministry where we can minister to one another. I would like to encourage you to invite people over to your house wherein you can watch this Web Fellowship and share together, have Communion together and then minister to one another, give words of prophecy of encouragement to one another and also have a place where people come over to your house where they can meet with each other, where they can have the dynamics of fellowship of a home church. Many can meet that way and be encouraged in that way. I want to encourage you to do that and in that form we can see more and more people being encouraged in the message of Grace. It's such a great honor to just have the love of God flow through us and be ministered to people through us. As we take the Communion, we are mindful of what the body of Jesus actually is. One of the most amazing things that happened was in the ninth chapter of the Book of Acts, where Paul was persecuting the Church. While he was persecuting the Church, Jesus stopped him and said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? So when we look at the body of Jesus, we look at the Law man that was broken and then when Jesus was raised up in a new body, we are partakers of that new body. We are now the body of Christ, the resurrected Jesus in a physical body. His resurrection ended the old System, ended the old man, brought a brand new body, a new man, where people are made righteous, fully qualified to be part of the Messianic reign, to be qualified of what Christ has come to give us. In this time, when we break the bread, as you break it, as you eat it, we are not mindful of our sins. We are not mindful of what we have done wrong. We are not mindful of our shortcomings. We are mindful of the fact that Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father, in the human body and that the body of Law, the body of sin, was broken! When that was broken, the power of sin over our lives has been broken and we can feast on the revelation and we can make our food the end of the Law man... the end of the man that bears his fruit of death in us, as we read in Romans 7. As we eat the bread and as we drink the wine, we celebrate the end of the Old and the manifestation of the original which is also called the New. So, this is a time where you can meditate upon your innocence, meditate upon your forgiveness, meditate on how much God loves you! This is not a time where you say, Oh, Lord, I've done this wrong or I've done that wrong, I wonder if I am worthy to partake of the Communion. I said it in church the other Sunday: to qualify for a savior, you need sin. So to qualify, to be worthy, of the cross of Christ and His death, to say that His death is meaningful, you had to have sin. So what qualifies you for the Salvation Plan is the fact that you were a sinner or you had sin. What an honor to just make use of the Communion and be a partaker of the body and blood of Jesus. It's such a blessing to know that we can minister to one another and use the Communion in remembrance of what Christ has done for us!

3 What does it really mean to be in the SPIRIT or in the FLESH? Bertie Brits October 18, 2015 Today we are continuing in our series as we go through Galatians. One of the main things, the theme of Galatians is basically the flesh and the spirit and that is what Paul is talking about. Paul had a certain idea, He had a certain logic behind what he would call flesh and spirit. We are going to look at this. When we look in the Old Testament, we don't see flesh and spirit all over the place. We find it in the writings of Paul. What did Paul mean when he talked about the flesh and the spirit? We will have to go and look at Romans chapter 8 to define flesh and spirit. I remember a time when I was thinking being in the flesh is when you wanted to spend something on yourself. If you wanted to buy yourself an ice cream, you are now feeding the flesh... anything nice would be fleshy. Anything nice, outside of going to church, falling out under the power of God would actually be the flesh. I also thought that the flesh was just the physical body and the things of this world or just this world... the physical things of this world and then all will be burned up in the return of Christ. We shouldn't be fleshy, loving the things of his world. The Bible does say that we should not love the things of this world and he that is a friend of the world is an enemy of God, and all those kind of things. So I am not going to try to explain that right now. I'm just going to talk about the basic concept that we have of flesh and spirit. If you have a Pentecostal Charismatic background, you will be very familiar with a concept of being in the flesh as committing sins or doing something wrong or feeding the flesh as in watching a movie. There were times where it was a sin just to watch a movie or to love sports or all those kind of things. It was being in the flesh and feeding the flesh. Even going on a Holiday was looked on as being in the flesh... you should have been in the spirit and in the spirit would be a time of prayer, a time of fasting, a time of reading the Bible, and now I am in the spirit. We are going to look at what the Apostle Paul meant when he spoke about those things. We will start with Galatians 3 :1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? :2 This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? :3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? I remember times when I would say, You got born again and now you backslid a bit and this backsliding is actually the flesh. You are getting back in the flesh. This was not what Paul was referring to. Paul was referring to actually comes from chapter one, verse 6 where he says, I marvel that you are so soon removed from him (talking about himself) that called you into the Grace of Christ to another gospel.

4 We have struggled to just define the Gospel. What is the Gospel? The Gospel, in short, is this: God promised man eternal life and man thought that, in Adam, he could have eternal life or live forever and never die, by doing good works. That is what he thought but God came and said, I promised you eternal life by giving you My spirit. So then the spirit of God will then bring forth or give eternal life to man. The only way that man can receive this spirit of God is by believing God. Let me just say that again. I want to just rephrase that. This is the Gospel: God came and promised man eternal life. Man thought that he could have eternal life by doing good... beholding the relationship that there is in the Trinity and doing all the good that they see in God. They thought that by doing all those good things they could have eternal life. When Adam did that and started to believe that, he dumped all of mankind into the System of Death which is defined as thinking that you can have eternal life, immortality in human flesh, by doing good deeds and so preserve your life forever. God came and then ended that and promised us, and did something, where He could pour out His spirit that can give eternal life, or immortality, to man and now those who believe can receive that spirit and so receive immortality in the return of Christ. The Gospel, in short, is this: God has come to save us from that which kills us and poured out His spirit since He has conquered sin and conquered death and that we can now have the promise of eternal life and so have our lives preserved forever and never die. That is the Gospel! People, unless we can agree on what the Gospel is, how will we walk together? It will be impossible! The Gospel message has everything to do with a physical human body. It has everything to do with your flesh. It has everything to do with your body and saving the human body from death. Let me explain it this way. In order for a living soul to live forever, now I want to define what a living soul is. A living soul is a human that is alive. In order for a human that is alive, and this is why I say that, God took His breath, blew it into Adam and Adam became a living soul. So, when dust becomes alive it is a soul that is alive. It is a living soul. If this life, that this living soul has received, wants to be preserved forever and not return to dust, this is what this soul must have: This soul must find its life and the foundation from where it lives as the spirit of God. When we talk about the spirit of God, we are not just talking about feeling goosebumps or feeling of the Holy Spirit or praying in tongues. We are talking about a certain belief that has entered your heart. Once that has entered your heart, it vitalizes and gives life and preserves this living soul or your life forever. That is the basic foundation of the Gospel. In order to have this eternal life you need to have the spirit of life. That spirit of life is to simply trust and believe that God, who is eternal, grants this freely to you and rely upon Him to manifest and to preserve your life forever. That's how simple it is! Let me say it again. I know that I am repeating myself but you might say, You know, preacher, why do you repeat yourself so many times? I remember one time a guy said to me, A preacher repeats himself and by the first time he repeats then he's already thinking that I am foolish and why are you repeating yourself. Maybe you are not hearing what is really said. Upon my heart is this and I want you to understand this: the Gospel, the good news, is the message that Jesus was raised from the dead and when He was raised from the dead, the spirit that raised Him from the dead is now given to us the place where we can say, We don't live by our works but we trust God to preserve our lives and give us immortality.

5 We have access to that spirit now. Here was God's scenario: God had dust. That dust made a life. Then He wanted this dust to never lose its life and return to dust but He wanted this life to live forever. Then He comes and this dust enters a system which takes its life from it, which cannot preserve its life. Your life cannot be eternally preserved inside the parameters of works' righteousness. That is impossible and what God does is He comes and He says to this man who implemented a system that cannot protect his life forever, He said, I will come and I will end the power of that system and bring something forth that you can actually receive the spirit that can preserve your life forever. Let me say it again: If dust is alive and lives by the spirit of God, then that life's life will be preserved forever, or kept safe, which is one of the meanings of the word, saved. But if this life says, I will preserve my life by my good works and not by having the only eternal life, which is the spirit of God, to protect it for him, you will lose your life. Then God came and said, I'm going to give dust access to the spirit that can preserve his life forever. And Jesus got that right! Now we can have the Holy Spirit and the promise of the spirit, which is immortality, received as we believe God. Church, what I am saying now changes theology in such a big way! It changes the way we reason. It changes the foundation from where we reason. Everything changes and it gives us access to the power of God. You might say, Bertie, I don't understand everything you say. It's okay. Just listen. This Word will just be seed sown in the heart, seed sown in the heart, seed sown in the heart. You might have had a lot of this seed in your heart already and it's being watered and you will find it germinates and brings forth the peaceful fruit of righteousness. What did the Jews believe? This is very important! The Jews believed that they will become immortal and conquer death in the reign of the Messiah but they also believe that the system by which the Messiah would function is the Law. It is all the Jewish traditions, the feasts and all those kind of things. They didn't think that those feasts are ever going to end. They thought that when they do those feasts and obey the commandments and obey the laws, that they are now actually part of the Messianic Kingdom and that among them will be born a man who will keep this Law to the point that he will never die. He would be called the Messiah. This Messiah would be in equality with God, or the son of God and He would be a man who would rule and reign on the earth, establish the Law System in such a powerful way that man would actually conquer death and live forever. They also believed that when this man comes, there will be a resurrection of the dead that those who, through the Law, seek righteousness and immortality, that they would be raised from the dead by the power of obeying this Law. That is what they believe and we need to understand that. That is the context in which about every letter in the New Testament is written. This is the foundation, the setting, where everything is. Unless we can see that, we will understand so many things that are written here. What happened was Jesus Christ came to the earth and when He came to the earth, what He did was, He basically came and conquered death. He conquered death but the way that He conquered death was different than what they thought. The way Jesus conquered death is this way: He was baptized into the sin of the whole world and then the Holy Spirit came down upon Him in the form of a dove. Then He, from there, if we read Matthew and John, He was led by the spirit and obeyed the spirit and by the spirit, healed. And then the Bible says He was raised by the Holy Spirit from the dead. Then we find in the Gospels, this is the basic understanding in the second chapter of Acts, this spirit was then poured out on all flesh, on Jew and Gentile, giving man access to immortality by the Holy Spirit. The way you would receive this spirit

6 that would raise you from the dead would simply be by believing that God could conquer death and that He did conquer death in one man, Jesus. That man's death and resurrection included your death and your resurrection for He took your sin upon Himself therefore He died your sin away. He died your death and He was raised with your resurrection. This is the way it works: In the Old, they believed: We will take the Law. We will take Deuteronomy 28 and we will listen and we will read and we will obey the commands of God. We will obey all the Jewish customs and everything. That is what the Pharisees were actually all about. They were into a revival. They were saying, We are not obeying the Old Testament the way we are supposed to. Let us take the Old Testament, let us take the commandments and the Old Law and the Torah. We are going to take all of that and we will obey it to the letter. We will tithe of mint and dill and all those kind of things. We will get dressed and even go the extra mile doing even more. They would make those tassels even longer. They did everything they can trying to obey the Law seeking immortality. They were thinking that by obeying the Law they are going to conquer death, physical death. Their mindset was never hell. They did not think, Well I will obey the Law to stay out of hell. They didn't think of hell. Hell was not part of that Jewish way of thinking. Their way of thinking was, We are going to have eternal life and never die. And even if I seek this, because I have been seeking this by the power of my obedience to this Law, in the return of the Messiah this Law will raise me up to life. And that is why the Law was called the way. It was called the truth and it was also called the life. That's why Jesus came and He said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life! He was contradicting what they believed. We see this in the book of Romans 7, where Paul says, The way that seemed unto life... When Paul talked about the way that seemed unto life he wasn't talking about the Law as a way to heaven. That was not what was in his mind. What was in the mind of Paul when he said, The law is the way that seemed unto life, he didn't mean a way unto a better life. What was in his mind was the conquering of death, the conquering of physical death and having immortality. That is what was in the heart of Paul when he said, There was a way that seemed unto life but the end was death. This was his reasoning: He said, The more I want to do the Law, the more sin manifests in my life. So if I am in the flesh (meaning if I'm in the System where we say that flesh is important if you're a Jew or if you're a Gentile is important because under that System of flesh the Jewish flesh is important because to the Jew was given the Law. When the Law was given, as I explained last Sunday, there came a separation between Jew and Gentile. When this took place, we find the absolute death entering man. As the Jews started trying to obey the Law, they find more sin and more sin and more sin manifesting in their life and they knew that the wages of sin is death. If you sin, you will be under the curse and you will die. This is talking about a physical death, returning to dust. That is what the Jewish mind thought. When I say Jewish mind, please understand that I am really using it in a general sense because if we say that the early Church believed or the Jews believed this, there were so many sects in the Jewish System. There were the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and so many different kinds of groups so it is actually difficult to say, This is what the Jews believe. I go with what the Pharisees basically believed and among them were also certain divisions so it is difficult to say that Jews believe this. But in general we can have the idea that they believed in immortality. The Pharisees were actually going so far as to say that if you have not reached immortality in this life while you obey the Law, you return to dust and there is no afterlife for you.

7 That is what they believed and there is no resurrection. There will be no resurrection. It will either be just people that through the Law receive immortality and then they will live. You may say, But, Bertie, this is unnecessary information. Just give me a nice message! Listen, you have to come to a place where we preach the Gospel. Let's just preach the Gospel and just see the power of it and understand the Gospel for what it truly is! What I want to say is that Paul comes and he preaches to the Gentiles and says, Listen, you don't have to worship all these other gods. You don't have to try to seek life by all these other kinds of things. There is one God. This God is the God and the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ came and He took the sin of all people upon Him and He fulfilled the Law. When He fulfilled the Law, He ended separation between Jew and Gentile for there is no more need of a Law. If there is no need of a Law, there is nothing that separates Jew and Gentile from one another. The Jews believed God that through Jesus they would have eternal life. That's what they were supposed to do and that's what the Jews did that believed in Jesus and now the Gentiles are excluded because the spirit was also poured out on the Gentile believers. The aim is immortality. You can either do it by the Law or you can receive the spirit that is proven to give immortality for that spirit that Jesus had raised Him from the dead. So if you want immortality there are one of two things that you need to do. You either need to love your neighbor until you see that you don't become gray anymore, until you see you live forever and obey the Law, the ten commandments and all the Jewish customs to the point that you find that your flesh becomes younger and younger and that you will never die. That's the one choice. The other one is to just have a spirit inside you that can raise you from the dead and we see that spirit could raise a man who had the sin of all people upon Him, conquering sin, conquering death. Now that is the thing. Now when Paul comes and he talks about flesh and he talks about spirit, he talks about these two things. He talks about methods where you think you are going attain onto eternal life. That is what he is talking about. Remember, the word, condemnation here, talks about being condemned onto death or to be condemned onto sin and death wherein you cannot have eternal life.. Romans 8: :1 There is therefore now no condemnation (The word condemnation does not mean the emotion of guilt. It means to be condemned to a life where you are bound to the fruit of the flesh onto death.) There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (So what is he saying here? He says that those who don't trust good works or principles to bring them into blessing or life but simply believe that the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead will raise them up and give them life, to those there is no more condemnation. The power of sin is broken over you and you have access to the resurrection. Hallelujah! Immortality! :2 For the law of the spirit of life (Do you see what he talks about here? He talks about the spirit of life. When we believe in Jesus, we say, "Jesus had immortality because He simply trusted the Father to raise Him and the Spirit of God inside a man is greater than the power unto death and it raised Christ out of all death and out of all sin, meaning that if we have that spirit we have received the power, the conquering power over sin and death. That's what it means. It says, This spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death that manifests or through which sin and then death manifests in me.

8 (So salvation is this: God had to make you free from what kills you and the way in which He makes you free from what kills you is by bringing you to a place where you can believe that He can give you eternal life. God had to get you to a place where you can receive the Holy Spirit wherein the Spirit brings forth its fruit in us and then conquers sin in our flesh and conquers death. That is what it is.) :6 For to be carnally minded is death; (What death is he talking about? He's talking about dying. He's talking about having sin manifest more and more onto death, being destroyed. He doesn't mention heaven or hell here. He's mentioning life or death. That's what he's mentioning and he's talking about the two different systems.) :13 For if we live after the flesh, we shall die: but if we through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, we shall live. (What he is saying is that when we receive the Holy Spirit, when we believe that Christ has conquered all sin and death, by simply just believing that, we receive the spirit of God that gives birth or a born again experience to our lives and we find that sin just falls off of us. We find a new life manifested in us. As we stay in that Spirit, we find that sin is leaving us. We find life manifest in us.) For if we live after the flesh we shall die. (If we try to have life by working the Law, that is when you are in the flesh, you will die) but if we through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall have immortality or life. You might say that it doesn't talk about immortality. Let us read on: 15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (It talks about the adoption there, the spirit of adoption. What is this adoption that he is talking about? This adoption that he is talking about is being raised from the dead, placed on the right hand of the Father to be immortal forever.) 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Then it goes on and talks about the adoption and it says the Spirit in us brings forth this adoption and that is the witness, the redemption of our bodies. And what is this redemption of our body? It means that our body is redeemed from death and that we will live because the power of sin is broken over our lives and this Spirit breaks the power of it and brings forth His fruit in us and brings forth the eternal or immortal life inside us. That is what it talks about so we can now explain Galatians 3. Remember that he is talking to people who believed in Jesus and went back to Judaism and he says: :1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, (How do you obey truth? It's very simple. If I tell you that your football team won, how do you obey that truth? You simply believe it.) before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (What is he trying to say? He's trying to say, Listen, the crucifixion of Christ, the death of Jesus means the death of the Law man. It means the fulfillment of the Law and through the shedding of blood and the end of the Old, there is a New and that we should not seek life anymore and immortality by obedience to the Law. We don't have to worry about the customs of the Law. We don't have to follow Moses. We don't have to follow any of those feasts or none of that. That's what he is talking about. Jesus was crucified and when He was crucified, it means, and this is what Paul said: When I preach to you I preach that the power of sin and the flesh man has been crucified and is dead and you don't have to follow any rule keeping system onto holiness or life. You can simply just believe the Father that He will raise you. That's it!)

9 :2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (Now listen to what he says here. He says, This Holy Spirit that is going to raise you up. They were now mixing grace with Law. They believed in Jesus and they also believed the Law. He said, What did you do to receive the Spirit that would raise you from the dead? You only believe by the hearing of faith. What is the hearing of faith? It is the hearing of the persuasion of God that God can raise the dead and God that promised us eternal life. That's what Titus says. It was promised from the beginning that we would have eternal life. Now listen to what he says. This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (If you received that which is eternal life by simply believing, why do you want perfection? Why do you say, Well, I received the Spirit that will give me immortality by simply believing and now I am not going to simply believe and have Him give me fruit in my life and immortality. I am going to say that I believe Him. I believe and I receive the Holy Spirit but I'm going to have eternal life by the very same system that I couldn't keep and it was actually manifesting death and sin in me. That's why he called them foolish! It's foolishness! It's foolishness to think that by grace God comes and enriches us, and by grace God blesses us AND we are going to be blessed by tithing or sowing and reaping! It's foolish! The very thing that you think is going to give you life is what God saves you from. That very Law that you think is going to give you life is what God can save you from. :3 Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, (What is the spirit? It is to believe, to simply believe! Believe the Word! What is the Word? In the hope of eternal life which God who cannot lie, promised before the world began. So what is the Word of promise? It's eternal life which God promised from the beginning. This Word became flesh and dwelt among us. What does this Word say? This Word says: This is My Word. This is My message to you. I can take you and raise you and make you immortal even in the midst of all your sin by conquering your sin and conquering your death. That's what He did for us. So here we see in Galatians very clearly what he says: Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? :4 Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. (Now he talks about persecution. He says, You've suffered for believing this word. You were persecuted but now you are going back to the old.) :5 He therefore that ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, (By the Spirit) does he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (It's not the works of the Law that brought forth miracles in the lives of these people. What he is saying is that when they simply believe, this Spirit could come and raise the dead, heal the sick, cleanse the leper and do all those kind of things. Why? By the Holy Spirit they received which is the promise of immortality. And now they say, You received the Spirit, do all these works but by the works of the Law you could not produce this fruit. Why are you now trusting your flesh or the works of the Law to receive immortality? It says: :6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. :7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. :8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. (What these people believed is that salvation is only of the Jew and Jesus came for whosoever is a Jew and that the Gentiles have the opportunity to become Jews by obeying the Law and then the Law and Grace had been incorporated and now these Gentiles must also obey the Law, read the Law, fulfill the things of the Law and then mix Law with Grace and therefore they can be saved by the Spirit that will raise them up. They were mixing the two things. They were confused and confusing many! And that is where the Church sits in many instances. Christ has come to set us free.

10 Let's read one or two more verses and I will end off. So if you were a child of Abraham, it is not when you are a Jew. Let me say that again. The children of Abraham are not the Israelites. The children of Abraham is the one who believes. That's what Paul said there. Not all who are of Israel are Israelties. This is what it says: And the scriptures foreseen that God justified the heathens through faith preached before the Gospel unto Abraham saying, (How did God preach the Gospel to Abraham? He didn't say, Abraham, I am going to crucify somebody. Abraham didn't understand that. He preached the Gospel SAYING. These were the very words God used to preach the Gospel to Abraham. He said, In you shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. This is what He clearly said: :7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham. So if you can believe that God can keep you alive and bless you with immortality and bring forth fruit in you, if you just believe that, if you believe that Jesus conquered death, and account of that you can say, It includes me, you are then a child of Abraham for Abraham was a believer. So who are the children of Abraham? The believers are the children of Abraham... not the Jews! The believers! That is what He is talking about here. And God promised that these nations shall be blessed. The promise was to Abraham and his seed which is Jesus and those who believe. :9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. :10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. :11 But that no man is justified (with immortality... I'm just trying to explain it in short here) by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live (shall have life or have immortality) by faith. (by believing, by trusting God will give it to him for free). :12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. :13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, (which is death) by being made a curse for us: (He received death and all sin.) for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: :14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise (which is immortality) of the Spirit (the Spirit promises us something... the Spirit of life. What is the promise of the Spirit? The Spirit promises us life so that you might receive the promise of the Spirit) through faith. So, people, let us not walk in the flesh but let us walk in the spirit. The spirit is simply believing that the Holy Spirit can raise me up. Believing that Jesus is the Son of God. Believe that He died. Believe that He rose again. He died my death. He died the Law man. He was raised as a human seated at the right hand of the Father and now we can trust God that He can raise me up. As we trust Him, the moment you do that, you have received the spirit of life, the spirit, the vital principle of life has entered you and that spirit brings forth signs, wonders and miracles, the fruit of the Spirit and immortality... in you! Glory to God!

11 CONCLUSION I've come to the end of the Service. Thank you so much for watching. I want to encourage you to listen to this message again and again and to share it with as many people as possible. Let's be evangelists. Let's be people who walk in this Spirit by simply believing what God has promised us. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for sponsoring and giving towards this ministry. It's a great blessing that we can preach as a Web Church and take the Gospel all over the world! You are deeply loved! Father, thank You so much for the opportunity that I could minister to your wonderful people today. As we come to the end of the Service I thank You that every person will just experience more and more of Your life... in Jesus' name, as they believe this truth. Amen and amen!