The U.S.A. Weekend Seminar Series
“Spiritual Warfare”
1.
All
seminars are held by invitation from your church or ministry.
2. Because of the amount of materials that must be covered, seven weekend
sessions are required. We travel by auto as a family, with our four children, when
asked to minister in the Southwest.
This includes New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and the western Texas areas.
3. Outside of this geographical area, I, Jose,
will come alone by airplane.
4. In most seminars, the Lord leads us to have times of
ministry, which include words of knowledge, prophetical words, and
healings. If your church desires for
this type of ministry within the teaching times we can accommodate this. If however you would only desire to have a
straight teaching seminar, we will honor this as well. Our vision and calling is to assist your
ministry in receiving the greatest benefits during this time.
5. We do not request honorariums or love
offerings, but trust the Lord to speak to the hosting church as to what His
will is.
6. Our ministerial requirements from you the hosting church are
room and board either in a motel or at one of the brethren’s home during our
stay, and a roundtrip airplane ticket for Jose if he comes alone by airplane.
7.
Thank you and God bless you!
Saturday/ Session # 1
Principles of the Blood of Christ
Our Life in the World of the Blood
Luke 22:20
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new
testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
·
In my blood is in the Greek “dative case of location.”
·
Because we are located in the earthly world
we are affected by, and are part of everything that belongs to the world.
·
The New Covenant is
located in the blood, or more accurately in the world of the blood of
Jesus. All that the blood of Jesus
accomplishes affects everything in the New Covenant. As long as we maintain ourselves in covenant with the Lord, we
automatically live inside of the world of the blood of Jesus Christ. The world of the blood then works back
through us to affect us with all of its benefits.
·
You and I plea the blood
of Jesus daily, and rightfully so. It
is vital to claim our privilege to the blood, especially before the devil.
More powerful though is to live constantly inside the world of the blood
of Jesus as we keep covenant with the Lord.
Matthew
26:28 For this is my blood of the new ( new in kind, quality,
substance and essence) testament, ( will
or covenant) which is shed (present passive part) for many for (INTO) the remission( sending
away) of sins.
·
Shed Means to pour out lavishly and
abundantly.
·
It
is poured out, rather than was poured out, because the verb tense is in the
present.
·
The
blood of the New Covenant is being continuously poured out, in the same way
that fluids are poured out, to continually release and send away from us the
sins as we repent from them.
· The New Covenant can only
maintain its eternal “newness” through the blood, which is eternally poured out
to keep it new as it is manifested in the world or the realm of the Holy Ghost.
1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup,
when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this
do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
·
We
are told that that the cup is likewise one of the channels that God dispenses
the New Covenant of the Lord Jesus, which dwells in, and is affected in its
totality, by the world of the blood of the Lord Jesus.
Heb 10:19 Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, Greek: We have at all times
therefore a fearless confidence before God that gives us an entrance into the holies by the blood of
Jesus.
·
Boldness is one of my
favorite New Testament words. It simply
means, “ to tell it like it is.”
Because the blood of Christ has made us charming and lovely before the
eyes of God we now have boldness with Him.
·
Boldness urges us
to come before God, having nothing to hide from Him, without shame or guilt,
fully confident and assured, and with the ability to speak intimately, frankly
and with reverential bluntness.
The Fellowship of the Blood
1 John
1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he
is in the light, we have fellowship (we share things in
common one with another ) and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from
all sin.
·
Greek (my paraphrase):
But if we should conduct our life in the light, in the same manner as He
(conducts Himself) in the light, we associate (PRESENT TENSE) one with the
other. This association allows for the
Lord and us to progressively participate and share with one another. This sharing in common allows us to obtain
the things of God as the blood of Jesus Christ His Son continuously cleanses us
(PRESENT TENSE) (so that we can
progressively obtain as we are cleansed)
1 Corinthians 10:16
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion ( “a” communion, not “the” communion) of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it
not the communion of the body of Christ?
·
Marvin Vincent, the
Greek scholar translates the first part of First Corinthians ten and sixteen in
the following way. “The cup over which the familiar formula of blessing is
pronounced.”
·
The communion of the blood Communion is the word for fellowship.
The Redemption Through the Blood
Eph 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted
(charming
and lovely) in the beloved.
Verse 7;
In whom we have redemption
(the
ransom payment of slaves that has freed us) through his blood, the forgiveness (sending away) of sins,
according to the riches of his grace;
·
Greek ( my paraphrase) In whom we have the
liberation of slaves brought about by the Lord Jesus’ satisfactory ransom
payment. This ransom payment is His
blood. The blood serves as God’s ransom
payment because it has the ability to send our sins away.
· Verse six and seven of
Ephesians chapter one tells us that because the blood of the Lord has sent away
our sins away, we are now (“accepted”) charming, and lovely, in the eyes of the Father.
8
Wherein(Greek: which) he hath abounded (caused
us to abound) toward
( into) us in all wisdom and prudence;
·
The
importance of verse eight is that the abundance of the Lord’s blessings is
limited by wisdom and prudence. Wisdom
is our understanding of the will and the ways of God, and our submission of
every part of our lives to that will.
Prudence is our step-by-step, daily execution of this will, as we are
guided by the voice of the Holy Spirit. The abundance of God’s riches and
blessings are released in proportion to how much we conform our daily conduct
to God’s wisdom and prudence.
· Toward is the word “into.” The saints who have become charming and lovely
to God are now the receptacles “into” which God desires to funnel all that He
is, and all that He has. The more
obedience, the more funneling!
1 Corinthians 11:25
For as often as ye eat
this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
·
Greek: For at any time that you choose to eat
this bread and drink this cup, you publicly proclaim and declare with
thoroughness all that the death (physically, emotionally, and spiritually) of
the Lord Jesus signifies, until the time that He chooses to come.
Colossians 1:20
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
·
Greek ( paraphrase) He brought about the state of freshness and newness to the whole universe through the
blood of His cross. He is able to
harmonize all things back to Himself whether upon the earth or in heaven through the blood of His cross.
The Propitiation in His Blood
Romans
3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance
of God;
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through
the forbearance of God;
·
Our faith in all that the blood of Christ
accomplishes releases our communion with it and allows us to obtain from it in
proportion to our faith.
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by
the blood of Christ
·
Greek paraphrase; you were once far off, not only in
distance but alienated from God and without access to the things that belong to
Him. Now by His blood, you have become
close to Him and enjoy full access to Him and His things.
Saturday/ Session # 2
Principles of the Blood of Christ
The Cleansing of the Blood
Hebrews
9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained ( to find, discover, or to meet upon) eternal redemption( loosening) for us.
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the
flesh:
Hebrews 9:14 How
much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot (to be without moral stain or blemish.) to God, purge your conscience from dead works ( corpse like works) to serve the living God?
·
The blood of bulls and calves could only
furnish the house of Israel with purity of the flesh. Their blood however could never purify the spirit and soul of man
or woman from these fleshly efforts to serve the living God.
Hebrews 9:22 And
almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of
blood is no remission.
·
Greek: And almost all things with blood are
cleansed according to the law. Apart
from the blood shedding (through the giving up of a life) can there be the sending away of sins.
Heb 9:23 ¶ It was therefore necessary that the patterns
of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.
·
Greek: It is
necessary that the earthly copy of the things which are in the heavens
themselves be purified with the blood of bulls and goats, but the
heavenly original with more excellent sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy
places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
·
Greek: Christ did not enter into the holies
made with human hands which is merely a copy resembling the authentic.
He entered into heaven itself to make Himself visible before the face of
the God on our behalf.
Hebrews 7:25
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost ( completely, perfectly, utterly) that come unto God by him, seeing he
ever liveth to make intercession for them
Heb 9:23 ¶ It was therefore necessary that the patterns
of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.
·
In verse twenty-three we observe that the earthly tabernacle
was cleansed with the blood of bulls and goats so that priestly ministry could
take place. How much more effective can
our ministries be if the authentic heavenly tabernacle has been cleansed with
the blood of Jesus? There is no excuse
for each of us to be powerfully used by the Lord if we serve the living God and
not dead works.
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance
of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water.
·
Greek: Let us continuously approach God with a heart that is genuine and real (not religious) because we are fully confident.
This confidence comes through our faith in all that Christ has done for
us. We base this faith on the fact that our hearts were once in the past sprinkled from an evil
conscience, but the impact of this event has a lasting and eternal impact. Likewise, our bodies were once in the past
washed with pure water (the blood of Christ), but the impact of
this event has a lasting and eternal impact.
Hebrews 11:28
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he
that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
Greek: By faith he Moses performed the Passover and the pouring of the blood
lest the destroyer of the firstborn might do them violence and cause them
injury.
·
This is a very important scripture in spiritual warfare. Our
claiming of the blood of Jesus towards Satan will stop in part the violence and
injury that he would cause to our loved ones and us.
·
However we must not forget to perform the Passover in
conjunction with claiming the blood of Jesus so that our protection will be
complete.
·
For us to day, the
Passover signifies our complete exiting from the land of sin; our eating of the
unleavened bread, which is a holy life before God; our not fearing man or
Satan, but stepping out instead into a life of faith and obedience, which will
take us into the promised land of freedom and our spiritual vocation.
1 Peter
1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were
not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
·
Greek:
Knowing that with things which perish such as silver and gold (which cannot pay
the sufficient ransom payment to liberate slaves) you were bought, from your empty manner of life handed
down to you from your ancestors.
19
But with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
(internal purity) and without spot.(external staining by sin)
· Greek: But by the precious and
highly honored blood as of a lamb void of internal blemishes and thus unspotted
externally by the world and Satan.
Saturday/ Session # 3
Principles
of spiritual warfare
A Study on Deception and the Judgment of God
2 Cor 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light.
Metaschematizo
·
To alter the outward appearance without a significant inward
change of the heart. The tense is in
the present/ middle, which means this deceptive transformation is a continuous
spiritual tactic of the enemy. It is
closely illustrated to an architectural schematic, and shows us how the enemy
can change the schematic of things.
·
Ephesians
4:18 Having the understanding darkened,
being alienated
from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the
blindness of their heart:
·
Greek: On account of
the hardness of their hearts (towards God) there is a void of knowledge in them
that has permanently separated them from intimacy and fellowship with the Lord
and has permanently darkened their thoughts that concern God.
Deception from First Timothy
1 Tim 4:1 ¶ Now
the Spirit speaketh expressly (“speaking plainly”; probably through the mouths
of prophets), that in the latter times( not specific times) some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines
of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having
their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Deception from Romans One
Rom 1:18For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold(suppress) the truth in unrighteousness;
21.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened.
·
Having
known God, they absolutely refused to glorify Him as God or were thankful to
Him. The end result of pushing God
away is that their reflections and reasonings about life became futile and
pointless, allowing them to fall into deception and make wrong decisions. The
end result is that their heart, now void of understanding, became darkened.
22.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
·
Professing
to be wise, they became morons.
23.
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things.
·
And exchanged the glory of the undecaying
and sinless God for the likeness of the image of decaying and sinful….
24.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of
their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
· Wherefore God handed them over
by the cravings and lusts of their hearts into uncleanness so that they would
dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
25.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served
the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
·
Who exchanged the truth about God for falsehood, thus
religiously reverencing and serving the created thing more than Him who created
it.
26.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
·
Because of this reason, God handed them over to
dishonoring passions, for even their females exchanged the things that are
supposed to be governed by nature, to do things which are against the laws of
nature.
27.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is
unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was
meet.
·
And in the same manner even the males having left the
instincts that nature has given them concerning females, have their own
cravings set on fire towards each other, males with males, executing fully what
is shameful, and getting what is due, as the necessary reward given to them as
compensation for their error.
28. And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do
those things which are not convenient;
Deception from Second Thessalonians
2Thess 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom
the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
·
The
word for; “destroy” means to render
useless, idle or ineffective, the works of the Evil One.
9
Even him, whose coming is after
the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
· Even to him whose arrival is in
accordance to effective work of Satan who makes fully functional every type of
dunamis power and pseudo signs and wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.
·
And in the sphere of every
deceit belonging to unrighteousness, in them which are continually perishing
and being destroyed, because the love of what is genuine and accurate about God
they did not welcome, so as to result in their being saved.