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Key Point: Jesus is the seed
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Key Point: Jesus is the Angel
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Key Point: Joseph saving
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Key Point: The twelve tribes
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Key Point: Jesus is the Prophet
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Key Point: … born not of blood,
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Key Point: Jesus said to them,
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Key Point: Jesus said to him,
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Key Point: … Jesus … “Behold
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Key Point: … marriage of the
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Key Point: ... he saw a man not
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Key Point: Teach your kids –
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Key Point: History is the starting
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Key Point: Jesus is the
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Key Point: Moses and Aaron were
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Key Point: Jesus is the King
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Key Point: God revealed Himself
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Key Point: For all the people
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Now He said to them, "These
are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all
things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and
the
Prophets and the Psalms must be fullfilled." Then
He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ....
Testimony #1: Luke 8:10-15
When asked to give
my testimony, I go to the story above. In my early walk as
a young believer, I fell away at the first sign of temptation just like
described in verse thirteen. As I grew in maturity in my walk,
I was faced money. The personal thorns choked out any possible fruit
as described in verse fourteen. I know now that money just makes
you rely upon yourself instead of God. I thank God for removing the
stones and thorns from my life. God has allowed me to produce fruit
and now nothing else in this life compares. I know that I can not
produce real fruit on my own. Only God can produce real fruit so
I must trust in His Spirit to guide my ministry. God just allows
me to act as His instrument in the lives of people He brings across my
path. It is God who plows the soil of my life and God who plants
the seed that grows into fruit.
Testimony #2: I was born with a
kidney
disease. This disease has been one of the greatest blessing I
have ever received in all my life. It helps me understand that all
men are born with a disease called sin. You might be a good person,
but being good is not the same as being holy and righteous. You must
be perfect in holiness and perfect in righteousness to enter into heaven.
If you are born of the seed of man, then you are born in sin. This
is critical in understanding the virgin birth of Jesus. Jesus was
born of the flesh, but He was not born of the seed of man which would make
him a sinner. Jesus is God who entered into His creation via a virgin
by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit.
Testimony #3: Over my life I have made three major commitments. At twelve, I accepted Jesus as my savior. At seventeen I joined the Army and at nineteen took my oath of office as a commissioned officer. At twenty-five, I married the most wonderful woman who has ever been born (sorry Mary and sorry Eve). The actions of my life have embarrassed and disgraced all three of these commitments. Life is a growth process. I know God today in a way that I did not know He existed when I was twelve. God is more real to me today than anything in this life. When I was twelve, God was kind of an illusion. I believed and that was enough, but it was a shallow surface type of understanding of God. As I got older and started a family, Jesus became an insurance policy for heaven. I did not have a love for God. I needed Him, but I was not involved with Him. One day I felt the Holy Spirit move in my life and my life has never been the same. The Holy Spirit is difficult to explain, but things were happening in my life that some would try and explain away as coincidence. Here is one example of the hundreds in my life. One day I was driving to prison to teach my class and listening to the bible on tape. A certain verse from Isaiah really stuck in my heart. It was not a major verse like John 3:16, but an obscure verse. I taught my class as usual without mentioning the verse and then started a thirty minute tape which was part of the course I was teaching. Why was this obscure
verse sticking in my mind? As I sat at my desk contemplating this
verse, a young student inmate asked to speak with me out in the hallway.
He had his bible with him and asked if I could help him understand a certain
verse. He opened to Isaiah and showed me the verse from Isaiah.
The exact same verse I had heard while driving to prison that night.
The exact same verse that I was just thinking about when he asked to speak
to me. Think about the statistical odds that he would ask me about
that one verse from the hundreds of thousands of verses in the bible. That
is the Holy Spirit. He asked how he could know that he was saved.
I told him that the Holy Spirit reveals that in a man's life and then I
told him about the verse God had burdened me with while driving to prison
that very night. I assured him that he was saved and encouraged him
to walk in His grace. Like I said, this is one example of hundreds.
Testimony #4: In my life, I have
had the great opportunity to walk under a few really good pastors and bible
preachers. If you were to ask me who has had the greatest impact
in my Christian life, I would have to say a guy who is not allowed into
my home. That's right, the man who has made the greatest impact in
my Christian walk is not allowed in my home because this man channels
spirits. None of the great pastors and preachers could get me
to open my bible, but God used this man to make me open my bible.
As I teach today, I know that my job is to get men to open their bibles
and seek the face of the Living God one-on-one. My job in ministry
is to tear down manmade religion and make men face Jesus.
Assumptions: 1. I believe that God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 & John 1:1-5 2. God originally put man in paradise and gave him the opportunity to obey and experience true life. Genesis 2:8 3. God created angels as part of His creation. Satan was a high ranking angel, but he wanted to be like God and lost his position. Ezekiel 28:11-19 & Isaiah 14:12-15 4. Satan deceived Adam and Eve into rebellion against God which brought death to all mankind. Genesis 3:1-7 Do not fear, God has the solution. 5. The solution to man's rebellion is that God Himself came as the Messiah (Messiah is translated as Christ in Greek). God told Satan that Eve's seed would bruise/crush his head. Genesis 3:15 6. God made man in His image. God is Spirit. Every man has a spirit inside him that God can redeem. Genesis 1:26-27 & Genesis 2:7 God is eternal and since man is made in His image, man will continue into eternity. The question is where. 7. The first man (Adam) disobeyed God which brought sin and death into this world. God did not bring death into mankind, but he did allow the fall which He will use for His glory by raising up man and adopt man as His child. Romans 5:12 & Romans 5:19 8. The bible is God slowly revealing to mankind His plan of salvation and redemption from death. Luke 24:44-47 & John 14:6 9. God choose Abraham to create a nation to bring about the birth of His Messiah. Genesis 12:3, Genesis 22:18 & Genesis 26:4-5 10. God explained to Moses that the Messiah would be a prophet like him to stand between the people and God. Deuteronomy 18:15, Luke 9:35 & Exodus 25:22 11. God explained to David that the Messiah would create a kingdom that would never end. 2 Samuel 7:12-13 & John 18:36-37 12. God redeemed the nation Israel (and me, and you) with His blood. Genesis 15:13, Exodus 12:40-41, Psalm 147:19-20 & John 1:12-13 13. I believe in the virgin birth of Jesus. God is not made of flesh and bone, at least, not until Jesus came in the flesh. Jesus is man and Jesus is God. Spirit became flesh, so that flesh could become spirit. Matthew 1:20-25, Isaiah 7:14 & Isaiah 9:2-7 (6) 14. I believe Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of God for the redemption of all mankind and that He is alive on the throne of God. Luke 9:28-36 & Isaiah 42:1-9 It should go without saying, but I believe in the bible. I believe God breathed His Word to man and allowed His prophets to write to mankind His thoughts. Sixty-six books from forty different authors over 1,500 years and the book has one mind, one thought behind it all. This can be nothing more than God reaching out to fallen man doing what man can not do; revealing who God is. This is just like salvation. God doing for man what man can not do for himself. God tells us to be
ready to give an account for our trust in Jesus. I think all Christians
should have various testimonies ready from different perspectives for different
situations.
Here is the history of KairosMan: Prior to 2003, I was just an average guy who went to church and lived the rest of the week as I wanted. I was involved in small groups at church and claimed Jesus as my Savior. Frankly, I did not love God. Jesus was my heaven insurance policy. Then in 2003, I felt the Holy Spirit call me into prison ministry. Yes, I know that phrase (felt the Holy Spirit call me) sounds kind of weird if you are not a Christian. But it is very real. The Holy Spirit is alive and well. Jesus is alive and well. We serve the Living God. Please understand that I did not want to go to prison, but I could not shake that feeling deep inside that I must go. That feeling is the Holy Spirit. The first time I walked behind the doors I realized that it was only by the grace of God that I did not get arrested for so many infractions during so many different times in my twenties and thirties. That is when my walk with God got very real. Again, read the book (KairosMan) to see what God started teaching me inside prison. In 2004, I was asked to take over a Christ-based 12 Step Recovery Program called Overcomers inside the Hutchins State Jail. Each week I would prepare a study to correspond to the Overcomers lesson. I always told the inmates that I hoped that they are learning something in class because God was always teaching me more and more about Him as I prepared for each class. You can see my original notes from the class online at kairosman. In 2011, I was asked to teach Overcomers in the Faith-Based Dorm. I moved from teaching the Overcomers program to the general prison population to teaching it exclusively to the inmates accepted into the Faith-Based Dorm. The Faith-Based Dorm was a new concept inside the prison system to bring together men of all faiths to build up moral values which has been proven to reduce a person's relapse into criminal behavior after release. In January 2013, the Faith-Based Dorm shifted from Overcomers to Celebrate Recovery as a substance abuse program and that is when KairosMan became an independent discipleship training course for the Faith-Based Dorm inmates. I have been blessed with the opportunity to teach five (5) full twenty-five week courses prior to my retirement. Over these twelve years in Hutchins, I have been blessed with the opportunity to instruct thousands of inmates in God's Word. Thank you for your interest. Click the underlined message
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