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"(JESUS said:) LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP, AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR ADRAUGHT...and when they had this done, they enclosed a great multitudes of fishes: and theirnet brake. And they beckoned unto their partners... and they came, and filled both ships..."

(Luke 5: 5,6,7).

GOING INTO

THE DEEPER THINGS OF CHRISTwritten by: Chuck- JOHNEL

"Therefore leaving*

the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on untoperfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, andof faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptism, and of laying on of hands, andof resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment."

(The Apostle Paul in Hebrews 6: 1-2)

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*Note: The word "leaving" in Hebrew is defined as: "to send forth" speaking ofcompletion. The operative statement here is, " let us go on unto perfection"

In the Amplified Bible the same verses read: "Therefore let us go on and getpast the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrines of Christ (theMessiah), advancing steadily towards the completeness and perfection thatbelong to spiritual maturity..." (Ampli fed Hebrews 6: 1 a-b,J

Once we are saved by faith by GOD'S grace through JESUS CHRIST and have beenbaptized and have repented of dead works, having faith toward GOD, and haveembraced the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrines of Christ - we are to goonto the deeper things of Christ. But what is that?

Sadly, too few of God's children have barely achieved the elementary stages wherebythey might even become aware of greater vistas in Christ. But if they have then thisis what they ought be aspiring towards:

"Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God..." (Ephesians 1:I a)"And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,evangelists; and, some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of thesaints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body ofChrist: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledgeof the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure and statureof the fulness of Christ... But speaking the truth in love, may grow upinto Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ."

(E p h esians 4: 11-13, 15)

Here the Apostle Paul defines these greater vistas in Christ as being:

1.The perfecting of the saints.2. Until all come in the unity of the faith.3. Until all come to the knowledge of the Son of God.4. Until all come to the measure and stature of the fulness of Christ.5. Until all speak the truth in Christ's love and grow up into Him in all things.

When you hear someone deny that prophets exist anymore simply point them to whatthe Apostle Paul stated above in Ephes1ans 4: 1 1-13, 15. Prophets (among the others)

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GOING INTO THE DEEPER THINGS OF CHRIST (continued)would no longer be needed or given by God if" all of these 5 points on the previouspage were a reality, fulfilled, completed - a done deal! They are not! Not even close!

The plain and sad fact is that hardly a minority of those in the church have fulfilledthe "elementary stage in the teachings and doctrines of Christ"; and I wouldquestion if more than a mere handful have come anywhere near to attaining tothe 5 "greater vistas in Christ" as listed at the bottom of the previous page.

More recently, a survey reveals that upwards of 50% of church goers are turningfrom the faith. But that is not a surprise to me.

Back in the mid 1970's JESUS shewed me (literally) that out of a sizeablecongregation, some 70% were on the road to hellfire and were unsaved. He alsorevealed that this church was a microcosm of the church in America. This direcondition (70% on the way to hell) was not merely a local problem, it was church-wide across America.

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

Generally speaking the vast majority of God's people in the church are either "notchallenged to grow in Christ" or have no idea that they are called to grow in Christor what that means. Most do not even have a hint of what is expected of them asChristians or the vast opportunity that they have in Christ.

Let's take just one of the five points and take a look at it - number 3:

3. Until all come to the knowledge of the Son of God.

It is pretty simple - we ought come to KNOW JESUS personally and intimately. Thisspeaks of having a living relationship with the living Son of God.

Consider this: JESUS said: "Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have wenot prophesied in Thy name? And in Thy name have cast out devils? And in Thyname done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knewyou, depart from Me, ye that work iniquity." (' ESUS in Matthew 7: 22-23)

As we seek to come to know JESUS, He will know us - we will not be strangers to

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GOING INTO THE DEEPER THINGS OF CHRIST (continued)Him as so many are.

At this point I've shown you the scripture that outlines what we are to attain to goonto the deeper things of Christ, noted as the "5 greater vistas in Christ" (see thebottom of page 2). So the next question would be this:

"How do I go-onto the deeper things of Christ?"

Humanly/carnally speaking it is actually impossible for anyone to accomplish this ontheir own. It can only be achieved by the outworking of the HOLY SPIRIT throughJESUS CHRIST. How?

1. Learn the discipline of a life of prayer (praying daily looking to JESUS CHRIST)

2. In and out of a daily discipline of prayer we can learn to move In The Spirit',which is also a by-product of daily prayer.

3. By daily prayer and moving `In The Spirit' we can effectively learn to abide inJesus Christ and add (abiding) this as a part of our daily discipline of prayer.

4. It is in and out of daily abiding in Christ that we can come to hear the Lord JESUSspeaking to us and thereby we can learn to yield to and trust Him.

5. It is in and out of this daily discipline of prayer, moving `In The Spirit' andabiding in Christ that as we learn to trust Him and yield to Him, JESUS CHRIST,that He begins to change us from within to without.

6. It is He, JESUS CHRIST, who will teach us, lead us and conform us to Himself;it is in His care and keeping that we are perfected, that we are drawn into the unityof the faith, that we come to know Him, and that through Him we will come to themeasure and stature of the fulness of Christ speaking truth in His love and will growup into Him in all things.

ABIDING: In prayer we talk to God but it is in abiding that we quiet ourselves downto listen to God speak to us; more, it is in abiding in Him that He changes us fromwithin to without. That process (change) is slow, gradual and at a pace He determines(not us). Our part is simple - as we come to trust His love, we learn to yield to Him.

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"Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not..." (I John 3: 6)

If you take a close look at JESUS' Word in John chapter 15 you will realize j ust howmuch JESUS emphasized the importance of "abiding in Him."

Unless you "abide in Him, JESUS CHRIST,"you cannot bear fruit in your life."Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except itabide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me." (JESUS in John 15:4)

The hidden stumbling block - Adam

It happens often where a brother or sister in Christ that has had hands laid on themto receive the Holy Spirit and the gift of tongues, that sooner or later they wiIl receivea word from whom they believe to be Jesus, but it is not Jesus. Many are deeplydiscouraged to learn that they have been deceived by a false word, it cripples manybrethren spiritually and others, refusing to see their error, slip deeper into the grip ofdeception and fall. For this cause many men of God discourage or mistrust thosemoving in the gifts, especially if they are led in ways not understood thus feared.

As a consequence many brethren are discouraged or turned away from an activepersonal relationship with Jesus for fear of deception, especially if they receive"mixed words" (part God, part man or Satan).

That a Christian who is starting to move in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and is enteringinto a personal relationship with Jesus will face deceptive words and receive falseleadings is normal.

THIS IS NORMAL?!?

Every believer need understand that they were all born into this world through fallenAdam (the first Adarn) and so their soul was tainted from the start with what wesometimes call "the Adamic nature" or "a sin nature" or "the carnal nature." Thebottom line is that from our earliest years we have ALWAYS heard this fallen Adamspeaking to us, hearing/feeling his impulses and drives that brought/bring us to sin.

When we receive Christ in our life the only new thing is JESUS' presence in our

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GOING INTO THE DEEPER THINGS OF CHRIST (continued)lives whereby we can now discern or detect this fallen inner being and can becomeaware of it.

If we were keenly aware of the fact that this fallen Adam within us is very active andis still present even after we receive JESUS CHRIST as our Lord and Savior - thenwe would be better prepared to both recognize and deal with that "fallen Adam".

When we begin to move by the Spirit of God and begin to enter into a livingrelationship with JESUS CHRIST, do we think for one moment that the fallen Adamwithin us is going to simply lay down and die? Think again.

WHEN YOU BEGIN TO GROW IN CHRISTFALLEN ADAM WILL FIGHT THAT! WHY?

When Christians begin to grow in Christ and in Christ start being changed into Hislikeness and image by the SPIRIT OF GOD - fallen Adam must fight that with everymeans at his disposal for one simple reason.

When the Body of Christ begins to move towards maturity in Christ, becoming likeJESUS, doing what JESUS did - that spells the end of it for fallen Adam, Lucifer andall the host of hell - they are facing judgment day! They have a vested interest inkeeping Christians in that immature carnal state forever.

"...THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD COMETH, AND HATH NOTHING IN ME."(JESUS in John 14: 30b)

Fallen Adam had nothing in JESUS, no hold through any carnality in Him (there wasnone), no sin nature (it was inactive), no strong carnal desire in Him whereby Adammight find a way to turn Jesus away from God's Will.

The only way we can come to such a state (where the prince of this world has nothing

in us) is through JESUS CHRIST, in and out of abiding, in and out of His workingsin us by His Spirit as we learn to both trust and yield to His Perfect Will for us.

THE BODY OF CHRIST IS ILL PREPARED/EQUIPPED

Under JESUS' Commission I have spent the better part of 3 3 years calling Christiansin America to pray and met a phenomenal resistance to prayer - demonic in fact.

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GOING INTO THE DEEPER THINGS OF CHRIST (continued)THE BODY OF CHRIST IS ILL PREPARED/EQUIPPED (continued)As a result of this intense resistance to prayer the Body of Christ is blocked from anyopportunity to enter into a deeper relationship with Jesus. If this were a horse race,the vast majority of Christians are still locked in the starting gate and going no wherefast.

THE EMISSARY OF 1976

It was just past mid-1976 and my son, Stefan, was barely three months old. In a matter ofa week's time we would gain entrance into Trinity Lutheran Church to begin the prayerwork that JESUS asked of me back in 1974. The pastor of that church had for two yearsrejected and resisted every request to allow me and others to come into the church andpray. Through persistent prayer and intercession, the Lord JESUS would finally open away for our small gathering of Christians to enter the church and pray. This was the birthof the Net of Prayer.

By this time, I understood (through JESUS' Word and Commission) that my Call was togo out among His People, to warn them of coming judgments and to call them torepentance and prayer. It would he a nationwide work.

One evening in mid-I976, just before permission was granted and the church opened forprayer, I was in my prayer closet (which was, at the time, my den), I was praying andmeditating on the Lord Jesus, as was my discipline.

Quite unexpectedly, an unwelcome visitor appeared before me. My visitor was an emissarysent directly from Lucifer, and I found myself looking straight at a demon prince.

This creature had a princely bearing, stood about six foot tall and wore a robe of purpletrimmed with gold. It had on a golden crown. It was very calm, smooth-talking andexceptionally self-assured.

It began stating, "Greetings! My lord (it did not mean JESUS but Lucifer) sends me to youwith this offer." It then went on to tell me of the work the "Lord " (it now meant JESUS)would have me do. That surprised me - how could it possibly know what Jesus wanted meto do?

The emissary went on to offer me fame, wealth, power, rich houses, women, and then (toquote this creature directly), "respect, honor, and high placement in the Church, i7I wouldon/v refrain fi-orn warning of the coating judgment and ifI would not call people to pray. "It added, that I could teach about the Bible, I could preach salvation, and 1 could do many

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THE EMISSARY OF 1976 (continued) good works. It then asked me outrightagain to immediately agree to not warn of judgments and to not call people to pray. If Iagreed, it said, it would grant me all that it had promised and more if I wanted it.

I was absolutely astonished at the audacity of the creature. It not only interrupted myprayer time, but it actually tried to buy me. I was inwardly aware that it could delivereverything it promised. I answered the emissary with Scripture, saying, "...as for meand my house, we will serve the Lord JESUS CHRIST." (Joshua 24: 15f)

With that, the demon emissary glared at me with hateful eyes. Its face contorted to athreatening posture, and it spoke in a rage, telling me that it (and its demon hoard) wouldkill my loved ones, my children, my wife, and last, me. It and they would ensure that I washatred, reviled, rejected, and despised in the Church. It and they would also work to inflictwant, suffering, and troubles in my life. It then continued to spew out threats and hatredlike a flood.

I quickly retorted saying, " I trust in the Lord JESUS CHRIST, who is my Lordand Savior, and only except that He should permit any of this can ithappen, for you have no power over me. I belong to Christ!"

With that I rebuked the demon prince in Jesus' Name and commanded it be gone. And,with that, it was gone.

In the years to come the enemy made any number of attempts on my family, my wife, mychildren and myself, and I might add, unsuccessfully. In the greater Church in America,gossip, false accusations, and lies against me spread like wildfire. That has continued tothis day.

IN 1982 following a major battle `In The Spirit' during which we (the Net of Prayer underJESUS' direction) overran and demolished a Satanic kingdom In The Spirit'. JESUS atthis time, simply stated that, "THIS WAS SATAN'S KINGDOM AND IT WAS IN HISCHURCH."

Then some years later the HOLY SPIRIT gave me to see `In The Spirit' a meeting betweenLucifer and a creature wearing a hood - they seemed to be meeting as equals, which wasquite unusual. I then noted that this hooded creature moved into the Church, the Body ofChrist, and disappeared there. I asked JESUS who this was and how it so easily moved toand from the Church - JESUS answer was quite direct, He told me that this was Satanwhom we know as Adam.

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GOING INTO THE DEEPER THINGS OF CHRIST continuedI'd long since seen the Scriptural evidence that pointed to Satan as being Adam, but nowI'd seen this Adam/Satan meeting with Lucifer as a co-equal.

THE LORD versus THE FATHERI once knew a young prophet who had been called to join with us on a prophetic missionand how he told us (Nancy-TONI and I) that when he prayed about going with us on thisprophetic mission that he heard JESUS say, "GO!" but then heard the Father say, "DONOT GO!" He then said, "Since the Father is greater than the Son, I will not go. "Because we knew this was a serious mission and many lives hung in the balances we asked

him to pray and fast the next day and seek the Lord again. He did and he got the same,JESUS said, "GO" and the Father said, "DO NOT GO." So he did not go and as a resultthe prophetic mission could not be undertaken (it required three prophets) and the resultwas horrific - well more than half a million living souls perished.

I was confounded, how could he hear JESUS say one thing and the FATHER say theopposite? It made no sense.

It took seeing Lucifer conferring with Satan/Adam, who also went in and out of theChurch, the Body of Christ, with ease, and JESUS revealing who he was to understandwhat happened with this young prophet. He inwardly identified the second voice as beingTHE FATHER but did not discern which father it was and assumed it was FATHER GOD,but it wasn't - it was Adam/Satan.

THE GREAT CONTROVERSY = Adam is Satan

In praying and searching the Scriptures in the late 1980's I found abundant evidence thatpointed to the very thing JESUS revealed to me about Adam being Satan. You can comeat it from many different directions but it was adds up to the same thing Adam is Satan.

Some years back we produced a cassette tape in which I shared the revelation insights andScriptures that point to Adam as being Satan. I was surprised by how many brethrenwanted to and did defend Adam, some with some ferocity and some with contraryrevelation.

In that Adam was the one who brought death on all mankind, and whose repo rt in theBible, after the fall, is hardly positive. To many I offered a simple challenge, 'find aScripture after the fall that speaks well of Adarn " - none could because there are none.

Nonetheless, brethren continue to defend Adam or are shocked to hear that I see Satan asbeing fallen Adam. For a time I wondered why? Then the answer became obvious as I

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GOING INTO THE DEEPER THINGS OF CHRIST (continued)pondered this unaccountable fan club he has among so many brethren in the Church.

Why did so many brethren defend Adam? It is because they all have an innate

or natural inner recognition of Adam as being "their father."

When we are born into this world we are bo rn through fallen Adam and this is where oursouls are tainted with a sin nature and so we are linked to a fallen one as being our"father". Indeed, that is not inaccurate, and until we receive JESUS CHRIST as our Lordand Savior, we belong to Adam, he is our spiritual father.

Adam is our spiritual father?

To state it as openly as this can be a bit of a cold water shock; but Scripturally it isquite accurate. Consider these Scriptures:

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have receive theSpirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father." (Romans 8:. 15)

"To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption ofsons." (Galatians 4: 5)

"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,according to the good pleasure of his will..." ('Ephesians 1: 5)

ADOPTION (from what father?)Even if a child was adopted from an orphanage the plain fact is that he or she had a"father" - perhaps absent, perhaps unknown, perhaps dead; but nonetheless that childhad a father.

Scripture (above) speaks of us being adopted by JESUS CHRIST - who is alsoknown in the Bible as the "last Adam" -but adopted from whom? How about the"first Adam", the one with the checkered past.

"...The first Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made aquickening spirit. " (The Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 15: 22)

"For in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."(The Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 15: 22)

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THE LAST ADAM (JESUS CHRIST) SUPPLANTED THE FIRST ADAM

"...death reigned from Adam to Moses...For if through the offence of one many bedead, much more the grace of God. And the gift of grace, which is by one man, JesusChrist, hath abounded unto many. And as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift; forthe judgment was by one to condemnation.. .For if by one man's offence deathreigned by one..." (Selections from Romans 5: 14-17).

Our spiritual connection to fallen Adam is pretty intense and quite intimate in thatour sin nature (death), which springs from him (fallen Adam), and our sinning wasmore than enough to condemn us all to eternal damnation and hellfire. Except JESUScame (last Adam) we would be in that fix to this day.

Okay - you may be willing to acknowledge that fallen Adam was our former spiritualfather, but that all changed when we came to know JESUS right!? Well, wonderfullyand Praise be to God that through JESUS CHRIST we were saved and are nowadopted sons of God through Christ who died for our sins! But let us take a look atone saved by Christ, one close to Jesus, who knew Him intimately:

"He (JESUS) saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peteranswered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And JESUS answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: forflesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, by My Father which is inheaven..." (Matthew 16: 15-17a)

Then just a little while later (in Matthew chapter 16) Jesus began to show Hisdisciples how that He must go to Jerusalem and be crucified and be raised on thethird day.

"Then Peter took Him (Jesus), and began to rebuke Him, saying, Be it far from Thee,Lord: this shall not be unto Thee. But He (Jesus) turned, and said unto Peter, Get

thee behind Me, Satan: thou art an offence unto Me: for thou savorest not the

things that be of God, but those that be of men." (Matthew 16: 22-23)

One moment Peter is speaking out of a revelation from FATHER GOD and in thenext moment Satan is speaking through him.

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A PERSONAL REVELATIONIn 1976 JESUS asked me and another prophet to take a 3-day walk through Chicagowith The Staff. We asked our prayer group (about forty brethren) to pray about it butthe elders declined. A number of brethren, elders included, thought it was a trap ofthe devil to kill us. Finally after weeks passed we had to have an answer to go or notgo and the elders decided to call for a vote. The majority voted we should go. In thata number of brethren were convinced we would be killed on this walk, we lastlyasked for prayer (it was a prayer group after all).

During this time of prayer the HOLY SPIRIT fell on all present and all those whowere most violently opposed to this walk spoke in JESUS' Name, saying He wassending us and it was His Will that we go.

After the 3-day walk we wrote up all that Jesus had shown us on this walk (thatjudgment was coming on America). The elders and some other brethren asked us tocome and talk about what we wrote. When we arrived we found ourselves in akangaroo court where they were steadfastly accusing us of having been deceived bythe devil and that Satan had led us on the walk.

I was every bit stunned by this behavior and could see darkness in all these accusers.Then I spoke up and said, "Didn't all of you prophesy in JESUS' Name that He hadsent us on this walk?" With that I saw the darkness in them disappear and for amoment the brilliant Light of Christ filled their faces and each of them said, "Oh yes,JESUS sent you on this walk! " Then, like turning off a light switch, the light ofChrist vanished and the darkness returned and they picked-up where they left offaccusing us of being led by the devil.

This is how fallen Adam works in God's people all the time - but no one seems totake it to account or to address it for what it is. Consider the Apostle Paul saying this:

"...in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily."(The Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 15: 22)

Paul was dying daily to his carnal nature, the fallen Adam, within which at one pointhe referred to as the "old man." This is a major stumbling block to God's peoplewho want to grow in Christ and a seriously major problem if they do not know itexists or who it is.

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THE DEEPER THINGS OF CHRIST (continued

"Satan " is defined in the Hebrew as being "the arch enemy of good, adversary, withstand,attack, accuse, resist." In the New Testament " Satan " is defined as "the accuser". Theterm "devil" is defined as being "a false accuser, slanderer,"

HOW DO WE RECOGNIZE ADAM?

In prayer, in moving `In The Spirit' and in abiding in Christ daily we come toKNOW JESUS CHRIST as He comes to know us. There is a very distinct differencebetween JESUS' Word and Adam, although AdamiSatan is very clever and cansound "like" the Lord GOD - nevertheless, he is not and one can discern thedifference.

How? JESUS' Word is filled with Himself, His Love - Satan gives a word that canbe stunningly accurate scripturally and sounds very good but it is void of ChristLove. Only as you come to know JESUS and draw near to Him can you discern thedifference.

The following article is re-printed, with permission, from Reverend DanBohler's Newsletter:

The Urgency Of Repentanceby Richard Owen Roberts

(Quote) "Edited from a message delivered at the "Heart-Cry for Revival"Conference near Asheville, North Carolina. May 23-27, 2000. Richard Owen Roberts isfounder and president of International Awakening Ministries, Wheaton, Illinois.

There is very little said these days in the church on the subject of repentance, andin many circles, what little is said is not accurate. Even in cases where it is accurate, it issaid in such an inconsequential fashion that nobody catches the real consequence of theissue of repentance. There are many places where they teach and preach that repentancehas nothing whatsoever to do with salvation. I have been told by listeners, when I finishedspeaking in various places on repentance, "You don't seem to realize, Mr. Roberts,repentance is a work, and we're not saved by works; we're saved by faith alone."Nonsense. It is impossible to believe when you are going in the wrong direction.Repentance is mandatory to salvation. You must turn from your sins, and you must turnto Jesus Christ. You cannot turn to Christ unless you have turned from your sins.

It is also apparent that to repent and not believe would be a travesty indeed. It wouldput a person in a position similar to the situation Christ described when He

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spoke of seven demons being cast out of someone, and the place swept and garnished, butbecause nothing came in to take the place of the demons that were expelled, his last statewas worse than his first (Matthew 12:42-45). Repentance and faith are wed together, neverto be divorced.

Wherever you have a church that is negligent on the subject of repentance, you havea very erroneous and grievous situation. Every preacher reading this ought to be pleadingwith God: "Give me, Lord, a new sense of the urgency of repentance, so that I canpreach it with vigor and power, and that the Holy Spirit will use it to change mycongregation."

Corporate Repentance

I ask you if you have ever weighed carefully the significance, not alone of personalrepentance, but of corporate repentance. It should be obvious to all of us that just asindividuals sin, so corporate entities sin. I almost never hear anyone say anythingconsequential on the subject of corporate repentance. The few who do say something aboutit tend sometimes at least, to make it more the public confession of private sin.

One of the aberrations in recent years accompanying revival efforts is that peopleare invited and urged and pled with even to make a public confession of a private sin. Youmay feel there is face value in that, but whatever value you place on it, surely you must notconfuse it with corporate confession of corporate sin and corporate repentance. As eachindividual sins, so each entity sins, and by entity I'm being inclusive. A married couple isan entity. A married couple with children is another entity. There is the extended family.There's the local church, the school, the business. Whatever the entity, just as eachindividual sins, so each entity sins.

The passage Second Chronicles 14:7 is not directed to individuals. Indeed, most ofthe passages in Scripture on the subject of revival are not directed to individuals but to acorporate entity. When you're using Second Chronicles 14:7 is never enough to find someindividuals who are responsive to that and to think that God is now under obligation to dosomething in relation to healing the land. It is when the people of God corporately humblethemselves and pray and seek His face and turn from their wicked ways, that we begin toapproach what is called for in the passage. But today we don't see any real response to thaton the part of churches nationwide.

It is never enough to think in terms of repentance and the individual; you must thinkin terms ofthe corporate entity. When you go away from this conference don't merely takejoy in the fact that you yourself have come to a deeper level of repentance—thank God thatwill be true for many of you—but burden your heart immensely for the corporate entitiesin which you are involved, and realize that they, too, must come to repentance.

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SEVEN MYTHS OF REPENTANCEMyth Number One: Repentance equals sorrow, this is a very prominent myth.

Many people think they have come to repentance because they have been overwhelmedwith sorrow. Others are fearful they have not repented, because they see some around themweeping profusely, and they say, "I've never wept like that. Maybe I don't know truerepentance." Tears have their place. I'm not speaking depreciatingly of tears. I would hopeto God there were more tears in our meetings, and more tears in my own life. I think tearsare an urgent need, but we dare not equate sorrow and repentance. They are not the samething. Often those who express sorrow are not expressing sorrow over sin, but sorrow overhaving been caught in sin.

Several years ago we had a wonderful touch of the Holy Spirit on campuses acrossthe nation, in some fifty schools, it is estimated. Many tears were shed, and many studentsstood and confessed unspeakable sins. They did so in a flood of tears with absolutesincerity, but that's not the same as repentance. Many of those dear students were drawnback into the web of their iniquity because unwisely they were led to believe that sorrowequals repentance.

Myth Number Two: Repentance and self-defense can exist together. Whenever youfind a person who is seemingly repentant and yet he or she is busily defending himself orherself, you know it is not repentance. Take for instance King Saul, who was commandedto go and utterly slay the Amalekites (1 Samuel, chapter 15). Instead, he spared the bestof the sheep and the goats and some of the gold, and he spared the king.

When God spoke to Samuel the prophet. He said, "King Saul has disobeyed me; godown and confront him." When Samuel confronted Saul, Saul said, "Why, I have donewhat the Lord commanded me."

Samuel said, "What then is the meaning of this bleating of the sheep and goats in myear?"

"Oh," said Saul, "you have to understand that the people preserved the best of thesheep and the goats." And he was told, "To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearkenthan the fat of rams" (verse 22).

When he couldn't squirm out of it any longer. Saul cried out, "Oh, I have sinned, butthe people made me do it." Repentance and self-defense never go together. When theprophet turned and started to walk away from King Saul, King Saul reached out andgrabbed hold of his garment. Samuel kept walking and the garment tore.

Then Samuel turned back and said to Saul, "Just as you have torn my garment, sohas God torn the kingdom from you and given it to a neighbor who is better than yourself."

Saul blurted out, "Oh, I have sinned, but don't tell the people and the elders."Samuel was wiser than some of us. Samuel knew that there was no repentance in King Saulbecause he was linking repentance and self defense.

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When a public figure repents, the whole of his public should know it . If you sin, andyour public doesn't know whether you've repented or not, you have some repentanceyet to deal with. Repentance and self-defense never exist together.

Myth Number Three: Repentance can be selective; one can pick and choose thethings from which they repent. When anyone resorts to selective repentance, the tendencyis to repent of the glaring matters, the things of which everyone knows he is guilty. Thereis no potential for selectivity in genuine repentance. Even if someone in your church iscaught in adultery and sheds buckets of tears, and makes no self-defense, and admitsopenly and candidly to an adulterous relationship, it is not necessarily repentance. Youhave to be sure that the underlying cause of adultery has been turned from, and that causein most instances is pride.

Take as an example, a woman who forsakes her three children and her husband and

runs off with a local university professor. When she is confronted by the church, she at firstsays, "Well, if you knew the beastly fellow I'm married to, you'd understand." But thechurch is very earnest in bringing her to repentance and so finally she says, "Well, I admitthat I did the wrong thing." Do we then rejoice? I'd want to get underneath and discoverwhether she had turned from the pride that made her think she didn't need to be bound to

this miserable man.

I'm thinking now of a pastor who invited me to conduct a series of meetings, andone of the first things I discovered was that he was in an adulterous relationship. Recently,twelve years after the original event, he tracked down where I was preaching and cameevery night to the meetings. The last night he said to me, "1 have come to the awarenessthat all of my attempts to repent of adultery have been without meaning becauseunderneath it all is pride."

Then with tears coursing down his face he said, "Do you think there is any hope forme?" I said, "Only God knows," because I didn't see any evidence that his pride wasbroken. One of the myths of repentance is that one can be selective.

Myth Number Four: Repentance is purely personal. Sin is not personal! Sin isalways against somebody. If you ask what is the very essence of sin, you come to thecertain determination that the essence of sin is self. Sin is me against you; you against me;me against God; us against God. Sin is very purely personal. Sin is always againstsomebody. Even the secret sins of the heart, which some people imagine are againstnobody but themselves, are nonetheless against God .

The great evil of all sin consists of the fact it is against God . That's why in Psalm51 David cried out, "Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thysight." Wait a minute, David, you sinned against Bathsheba; you sinned against herhusband; you sinned against a whole nation; you sinned against your own family. How canyou say "Against Thee and Thee only have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight?"

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Ah, that's what you're bound to say when you come to recognize that the great evilof all sin is that it is against God. So when you come to repentance, it is not enough tosecretly repent; it is not enough to engage in some serious work with God concerning yourown life. Your sin has been against somebody. Sure there are times when it is solelyagainst God, but there are pastors who have allowed some secret sin in their lives and indoing so, have sinned perpetually against their congregation.

You have never dealt adequately with sin in repentance unless you come cleanbefore you congregation. There are deacons who are regularly sinning against thecongregation that has put them in the office. To say that repentance is purely personal isa mythological statement.

Myth Number Five: Repentance consists ofturningfrom the evilIhave done. Thisis what is usually taught. No, it is deeper than that. Why did David say in Psalm 51, "In sindid my mother conceive me"? Was he pinning the blame for his adultery and his murderon his mother? No indeed. He was acknowledging that his problem was not merely whathe had done; his problem was what he was. When one comes to repentance, it is neverenough to repent of what you've done. You must repent of what you are .

We are not sinners because we sin; we sin because we are sinners. When we cometo repentance, we must repent of what we are, that we are shot through with sin, that wewere born in sin and that sin has a vice grip over our lives. You can repent a thousandtimes of the things that you have done, and if you have never repented of what you are, youstill have to repent .

Myth Number Six: Repentance is a single act. A person comes to a conference likethis, or to his church on Sunday morning where the Spirit is using the Word of God likea very sharp sword. His heart is pieces; his sin is apparent. He determines then and thereto repent and so he makes some overt action against that sin. He turns from it_

Someone conies to me and says, "I want you to understand that twelve years ago Irepented" or "Two nights ago I repented." It's never enough to say, "I repented." I mustbe able to say, "I am repentant—day in, d ay out, year after ,

year, unceasingjy I live in thespirit of repentance ."

Our churches are loaded down with people who can testify to the occasion in whichthey repented, and yet sin has shot through their lives. They are utterly worthless as

witnesses of the grace of God. They do vast damage in the church because they think thatrepentance is something that occurs in a point of time.

No, repentance is an ongoing spirit and attitude. We live consistently in repentance,just as we must live consistent) in faith. Oh, the pity of the millions in America who cantell you the day and the hour they accepted Christ, and yet they have no ongoing faith.Both faith and repentance are continual. They must not cease . It is only a myth when oneclings to something in the past.

Page 18 The Staff and Sword Ministry March 5, 2008The Urgency of Repentance by Richard Owen Roberts (continued)

Myth Number Seven: Repentance is an act of self-preservation. In a typicalevangelistic meeting, certain things are dangled in front ofthe congregation—threats, if youwill, frightening things, things to be avoided. In some cases something is said on thesubject of hell, and repentance and faith are offered as a means of escaping the penalty ofhell. Other times the appeal is based on loneliness. "You're here tonight and you have hadthe greatest and most profound disappoint of you life, because the man to whom youentrusted yourself in entirely has betrayed your confidence and has forsaken you. You arealone. Come to Christ and get a friend."

Christ is the greatest of friends. But self-preservation is not repentance. One maybegin moving in the direction of God in some selfish fashion, like seeking to escape hell,but if that is where it ends, it ends before it becomes genuine repentance. Repentance is notsomething I do for myself. repentance is something I do for God .

Why are our churches loaded up with dead wood, people who will not lift a fingeron behalf of the Kingdom of God? Why do we see so much burnout among pastors? Whyare so many who are not burned out bone weary, wondering if it is worth the struggle? Itis because they are dealing with all kinds ofunrepentant people who are trying to use Godfor their own advantage. True repentance is when one comes to the end of himself andstops_ using_ others including God, and he becomes a person who is dead to self, and thenin faith, alive to the Lord Jesus Christ .

Do any of these myths hit you? Is it possible that what you've been thinking of asrepentance is none other than a grievous myth? And what about your church? Is it possiblethat the real problem in your church are people who have embraced myths rather thanreality and have been deprived of the glories of Jesus Christ in their own souls, becauseyou have allowed them to cling to some myth, instead of helping them come to genuinerepentance?"

THE PRICE OF GOLD and BUYING A NEW CAR

Yesterday (March 6`1') the price of gold reached $983 an ounce - compared to the $658 an

ounce in August, 2007 when JESUS had me buy some gold with a portion of my Dad'sEstate. Part of that investment in gold was to be applied to the purchase of a new auto. Wehave decided to buy a Toyota Prius (2008 model) which is a hybrid (it gets 48 mph) . Atthis point the gold I bought is worth 5325 an ounce more than when I purchased it just 6-1/2 months ago.

JESUS just yesterday (March 6 `h ) told me not to sell the gold until this June, 2008.1 do notknow if that means its price will go up higher or not (it could sure mean that) but this iswhat JESUS told me. I promised to let those know on the mailing list if JESUS saidanything about selling some of the gold we bought back in August, 2007. I just have.

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FOR A LITTLE FUN -WHO IS THIS?The photo below could be:

FAR A LITTLE FUN -WHO IS THIS?The photo below cvu^d be:

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DR. DANIEL E. BOHLER - JESUS' PROPHET17R..DANIEL E. BQHLER -JESUS' PROPHET

GREAT STORMS COMING: In the first part of Februa ry , 2008 brother Dan Bohler andI talked by phone and he shared some of the things the Lord has revealed to him, that somegreat storms were coming in the south eastern U.S.A.. It was hardly a matter of days beforethe first fierce storms swept 5 Southern states killing 58 and causing significantdestruction.

GREAT STQRMS COMING: In the first part of February, 2 08 brother Dan Svhler andI talked by phone and he shared same ^f the things the Lard has repealed to him, that somegreat storms were coming in the south pastern U.S.A.. It was hardty a matter of days beforethe first fierce storms swept 5 Southern states killing 5$ aid causing si^,nificantdestruction.

If effect Daniel Bohler told me that "Great storms were coming, high winds, flooding and

that in April 2008 such storms will sweep Miami, Florida, move into the Gulf and then

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In the late evening news (March 7 th) weather forecasters warned of tornadoes sweepingFlorida in the next hours. The storm systems hitting the U.S. from the west coast to the eastcoast that started in "WRATH OF GOD" watch times just keep coming as more and morelives and property continue to suffer harm and destruction.

THE PROPHET ANTON JOHANSON

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NORWEGIAN FINNMARKWay back in 1977, when we were first getting out the Lord's Word and Revelation ofcoming judgment, a brother in the Lord who was cleaning out his departed grandfather'sattic, came across this old book about Anton Johanson. He sent me the book as he thought

it might prove interesting to us - indeed, it did.

Page 21 The Staff and Sword Ministry March 8, 2008THE PROPHET ANTON JOHANSON (continued) This book waspublished by Osterhus Publishing House in Minneapolis. The book was translated andcompiled by Nathan Carlson and copyrighted in 1930. The first printing of this book inAmerica came in May of 1940, now some 68 years ago. This little book runs 96 pages.Some years ago "Osterhus Publishing" gave us permission to re-print it and we now offerthis book at cost (paper, printing and postage) for $10.00 a copy.

Brother Anton saw a vision of the Titanic before it was launched and that it would strikean iceberg and sink in the Atlantic on its maiden voyage - which happened. He then wasgiven vivid visions of World War I and warned the leaders of Europe to avoid beingentangled in this war which would tear Europe apart.

I recall that Anton gave a rather cryptic revelation that World War III would begin inChicago, Illinois of the U.S.A. which is why this brother sent this book in 1977. In effect,the monster earthquake that will destroy the Midwestern U.S. and center in Chicago wouldbe the event that triggers Nuclear World War III - revealed to me in 1973/1977.

The book is old but interesting. I saw in 1977 that the experience of prophets is prettymuch the same from generation to generation. We offer this book on the enclosedRESPONSE FORM , again as always, at cost.

A SAD NOTE: This prophet, Anton Johanson, was a major prophet for his time; andexcept that I was sent a copy of this old faded book there would be little if any evidencethat he ever existed. The Church has a nasty habit of rejecting, ignoring and then forgettingits prophets which I discern have been in the church and doing God's Will for the past2,000 years.

MORE SCHOOL SHOOTING RAMPAGES, EXCEPT FOR ONESome weeks ago now a man walked into a University Campus in Illinois with a shotgunand several pistols who began by shooting to death a professor - he killed a total of 5 andwounded 16 others before he took his own life. This campus, like so many, was a "gun freezone" which being interpreted means "a killing zone that attracts murderous gunmen."

The Fox News broadcasters that reported this tragic event heard an anti-gun advocate saythat it is too dangerous to arm teachers or to allow students to carry concealed weapons oncampus and that they favored more gun laws (which do not stop bullets) and hiring morearmed guards on campus.

It was at this point that the Fox news reporter stated something to this effect, "Don 't you

remember how just a couple of weeks ago that a man drew out a pistol and began

shooting, wounding one student, when two other students in the class who had concealedweapons drew them and killed the shooter before he had a chance to shoot again."

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Although I keep a pretty good eye on news events, I didn't hear anything about this event.Sorry, I do not remember what State this happened in except that its State Legislaturepassed a law permitting students and teachers to carry concealed weapons on Universitycampus's. It got no press or notice - why? Because the armed students stopped a massacre.

I might also note and remember that brother Dan Bohler prophesied in 2007 that therewould be more school shootings to come. They keep coming.

THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL WARMING CULT

"CLIMATE OR FREEDOM"On a recent interview of the President of Czechoslovakia (Mr. Klaus) on the Glenn BeckTV show - this Mr. Klaus (who had lived under Communism for 48 years) observed thestrong likeness between the Global Warming panics and Communist rulers (Progressives)and stated, The real issue is of Climate or Freedom. "If the Global warming crowd getstheir way they will eliminate all personal freedom (the government will dictate everythingyou can or cannot do), shut down all free enterprise and collapse the economies of thenations of the world.

In Australia, where the "progressives" have banned all guns (gun violence and crime is up300% as a result - now only criminals are armed), one scientist has stated that they musteliminate all personally owned automobiles - and go 100% to bicycle or foot to get around.That will throw Australia back into the 18 t" century and there will be no appreciabledifference or improvement in the climate regardless. Why?

The vast majority of scientists do NOT agree with the global warming stats or hysteria norAl Gore's movie (An Inconvenient Truth) which has been made a "must see" for everyschool child in America as more and more people are being propagandized to believethese falsehoods and politically motivated lies.

The rise of CO2 is NOT connected with the rise of Earth's temperature (it is less than 1degree in the last 100 years) and the increase in temperature has been directly connectedwith the sun - the sun is going through a cycle of intense flares which is heating earth upa little more than ususal.

By the way - we are not aiming to buy a Toyota Prius because it is "planet friendly" (whichis a joke) but because it gets the best gas mileage (48 mph city driving/ 45 mph highway)as we make frequent trips to Spokane (about 75 miles) for shopping (Ministry paper, ink,stationary, etc.). Our Mazda SUV, which is a great road car, (long trip, cross country andfor hauling heavy stuff) gets about 22 mph. Gas prices up here now stand at $3.41 a gallonand rising (regular unleaded).