Chapter 8 - The Word By Any Means

Remember, the end of your faith is the salvation of your soul. And when Peter says “salvation of your soul,” he is not talking about the rapture when the soul is ultimately redeemed. That is the ultimate manifestation of the salvation of your soul. But here he is talking about the dimension that the child of God – the man or woman of faith – gets to where the mind, will, and emotion are no longer susceptible to the vicissitudes of this three-dimensional temporal world. It is the place where no matter what they see or hear of what he devil or their feelings say, their mind is so set and their will is so established that nothing which happens in this three-dimensional world will affect their covenant responsibility or performance. It is a covenant matter!

This is why Heaven will be so heavenly. Heaven is the ultimate redemption not just because it is Heaven. (It is not about geography. I do believe in Heaven. I am going there! But I am not waiting for it – I am not waiting to get there. I have learned that I have the power to bring it to me.) Heaven will be so heavenly because finally your mind, will and emotions are beyond the grasp of this three-dimensional world. So, finally when you are in Heaven, nothing that happens down here will affect you. This is what the old saints used to say, “No more crying over there and no more dying over there; no more tears over there.” Finally, I will be beyond the reach of where temporal changes and shifts affect me. I have got news for you. God expects to have a people on earth so established that their days are as the days of heaven on earth (see Deuteronomy 11:21).

You must get God’s Word in your mind, will and emotions. I have taught that the way to get it in your heart is to get it in your mouth first. That is an order. Remember that Romans 10:8 (KJV) says, “The word is nigh thee, even in they mouth, and in thy heart….” IT has to be in your mouth before it gets in your heart. That used to bother me because I thought, “Well, God, it is not right for me to quote Scripture if it is not in my heart.” He said, “Son, it is not going to get in your heart until it gets in your mouth. You do not get in your heart by reading it. It gets in your heart by saying it.

Deuteronomy 11:18 reads, “Therefore you shall lay up these words of Mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand [if you have to] and they shall be a s frontlets between your eyes.” If your situation is so bad that you cannot remember Scripture and you cannot say anything else, write it on your hand and say, “Wait a minute, devil, let me read this to you: But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57).Therefore I am an overcomer. I may not be able to quote it, but I can read it. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace” (Romans 6:14). Now we do not wear frontlets, but we do wear baseball caps; put it on your bill if you have to. What is the point? You have to keep this Word in front of your eyes.

You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates (Deuteronomy 11:19-20).

He said you shall teach them to your children – which is not by taking them to church. You drop your kids off at church, and when they rear up like devils, you complain that the church did not do its job. But it was not the church’s fault. You were supposed to be speaking the Word while sitting in your house so they could hear it. Remember verse 19 reads, “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way....” It says speaking – not letting them watch Christian videos. You have to speak God’s Word to your children. Now if you do not ever sit in your house, then you cannot speak God’s Word in your house, can you? That is one of the problems with our generation. We are always moving everywhere – we have got to do this, that and the other. We do not have any time to sit in the house and speak the Word. Put it on your door so that when you come in after a bad day and the devil has whispered words of defeat, the first thing you see is, “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country….Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out” (Deuteronomy 28:3,5-6). Whatever you have to do to get the Word in your mouth – by any means necessary – do it.