A voice calling in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, that was the call of John the Baptist, while everyone else was hailing how amazing the temple was, their place of security, John was declaring the arrival of the man, Jesus the Christ, who is the temple of God in the flesh. His message was repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. He even questioned the religious leaders saying, who warned you to flee the wrath to come. Oh John the Baptist was a man who was sent with a message, one message, prepare your heart for the shift of the ages. They had no idea what he was talking about in their natural minds, and neither did John. John only knew the one who had the dove land on Him, that was the Messiah. One sign, one dove, that is all John needed to know Jesus was the Messiah to come. So, he preached to all who would listen to repent, not of some dirty rotten sin, but of a way of thinking (religious laws), for a new way of thinking was about to be released, a new narrative was about to be amplified that would set them free from religious rhetoric. John was called to prepare the way, Jesus was the message!

Our religious infrastructure is so strong inside of us from living in a Christian nation, hearing sermons for years and years, now with the rise of social media and the internet, the amount of reinforcement is everywhere. We say amen to messages we have heard for years, saying the same thing over and over again, yet we don’t see much change happening. The highlight of our life is when we hear a testimony here or there of a healing, a marriage restored or someone got saved. But to live the life of an overcomer, to hear and speak the revelation of a now word from God, to repent of our religious thinking in order to hear revelation truth, the infrastructure inside of us resists that on a level we do not even realize. We get offended when someone says something we have no heard before. We have been trained to fear “some new teaching” as though it is not biblical. We fear freedom for we are so comfortable with bondage. We assume the world is getting worst and we have to just hang on until we get raptured out of here. We cling to the cross as though that was the only thing Jesus did for us and we hope for the second coming of Christ as though that was the only message of the New Covenant.

Small spaces, small theology, small lives, and we wonder why anxiety, fear, depression, divorce, suicide, financial challenges and every other issue is happening to people who have said a prayer. This should not be!!!! The blood of Jesus paid the price for us to live not a life of sin, but a life of victory. We are not sinners, we are overcomers. We are not under circumstances, we rule over them. The earth doesn’t belong to the evil one, it is the inheritance of the sons and daughters of God. When we relinquish our covenant rights to release righteousness as the ruling force of our nation and are told we are powerless to do anything about it, we have been lied to. We are a kingdom of priests, mediators of a new covenant, ambassadors of Christ, declarers of the good news of the gospel of the kingdom. We are men and women created in the image of God, called to speak the word of God and demonstrate the power of God. The truth came to set us free! It is for freedom we have have been set free! We are no longer under the yoke of slavery to sin! We are the righteousess of God in Christ Jesus! We are the salt of the earth! A city set on a hill! This is who we are and Jesus Christ is the savior of the world, that is who He is. Enough of this weak, powerless, defeatist attitude, we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus! And that my friends is the truth! Have a great weekend.