Pastor Joel Laswell

Message 276: ”A Fanatical Spirit”

We are to come to God and ask for His guidance in determining what the Scriptures reveal… we are to reason from the scriptures, not come to the Scriptures with a belief and look for evidence that supports it. When you add to or take away from the word of God you have been seduced by a fanatical spirit and are in danger of promoting doctrines of devils. I quite often run into some major forms of fanaticism and I am going to speak about some examples to give you a heads up because before it is all said and done, each of us will be confronted by those of a fanatical spirit at some time.

Message 272: ”He That Hath Seen Me”

Jesus made a very important statement to Phillip who had asked Him if they could see the Heavenly Father. Jesus replied, He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father. The words and works of Jesus both bore testimony to His divinity, but they were still blinded too much by tradition to really see Jesus, and thus the Father in heaven. When we come to know Jesus more and more, we will come to know our Father in heaven more and more. Not because, as some believe and teach, they are one and the same being, but because they have the same righteous attributes, the same character traits. I encourage you to get to know the Father.

Message 270: ”Behold Him”

Beloved, we must awaken and be sober about the condition of our life in respect to the eternal God. We each have only so much time and opportunities to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, becoming a member of the family of God. What are we doing with our time and opportunities?

Message 282: ”Role Reversal”

It is true that millions of God’s people have been persecuted and killed, both in ancient and in modern times. But the time is coming when the position of the oppressors and the persecuted will have a role reversal. Those who have been persecuted will receive their eternal inheritance, and those who have been the oppressors will be raised to receive their doom. Each one of us will either be on one side or the other. How do you know which role will be yours?

Message 294: ”Whispering Dragons”

How was it possible for Lucifer to convince a third of all the angels in heaven to rebel against their Creator? Lucifer was well loved by all the angels in heaven; after all, he was a covering cherub and stood next to the Godhead. Angels loved to execute his commands which made his stealth methods that much more successful. His most effective method was his whisper campaign. He would talk to the angels alone, in secret, telling each what the other was supposed to have said, with the entire intent to paint God as unfair and controlling and himself as only interested in fairness and liberty. Satan used his words in subtle ways to deceive and it is how we use our tongue that I want to study at this time. We will either bring glory to God or to the devil by the use of the tongue.

Message 292: ”By Grace”

Salvation is not complicated. It is simple enough that a child can understand it. All you have to do is believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Believe is often translated faith in the Bible. The Greek word translated believe, means to believe something enough to make a commitment to it. It is not merely an intellectual knowledge; it is a commitment. To believe in Jesus is to make a commitment to Him.

Message 291: ”Do Not Be Afraid”

Are you aware that your fear can be taken away? Psychologists will tell you that by facing your fear you can overcome it and some people have done just that. But it may just be that their fear has been transferred and not really removed. It is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. There has to be a change in our mind and heart before our fears can be completely overcome, and we cannot change ourselves. The change must come from outside of us. The Bible says that perfect love casts aside all fear, and the source of that perfect love is Jesus!

Message 283: ”The Vital Connection”

The Pharisees thought their system of works a certain passport to heaven; in fact, that was their reason for being Pharisees… to be more righteous than anyone else… even God! They fell for the same old trap that Eve fell for back in the Garden of Eden. However, Jesus said that their system of righteous works was less than worthless, as you cannot remove sin by works. Only by faith in the God that is righteous can sin be removed. It is by being connected by faith with Jesus, not works of righteousness, that anyone is saved! You see, being connected with the church will not save you—you must be connected with Jesus, who alone constitutes the church!

Message 286: ”The Negative Wavers”

Our message, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is a message of good news. We are not to be negative wavers though it may look gloomy all around us. There will not be any doomsday for the righteous; that is only for the wicked, those who have rejected the message of salvation that has been freely offered to all. The devil wants to seduce you; if that doesn’t succeed, then he wants to deceive you, and if that doesn’t work, then he wants to terrify you. We need to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and what He’s going to do for His people at the end of the world. It is the devil’s business to get God’s people discouraged, and the way he does it is by sending you a constant barrage of negative waves and predictions of doom. Give little heed to the negative wavers!

Message 284: ”Against All Odds”

For all the prophecies concerning the Messiah to be fulfilled in the life of only one man—there wasn’t one chance in 84 X1 to the 100th power that it could ever occur. That is 84 with 100 zeroes after it. Yet it did happen, friends. And the man who fulfilled all of the predictions is none other than Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whose life has influenced history more than any other man who has ever been born.