James "Chuck" Lewis - Thank You

The Spirit of Adoption Romans 8:15

Hello everybody. Today we will talk about the Spirit of Adoption. In todays society, there is a lack of mentors, spiritual fathers, and tutors. It is a plot from Satan Himself to keep the next generation ignorant of what is ahead. I remember when I was 18 and The Church I was a member of ,went to Memphis Tenn, for a AWCF conference. Greg Craven and I had checked into our hotel. He came back and told me that the service that was going on at that moment, didn't have any musicians to play. I played organ and Greg played the drums. Later that week, a musician came in to do the conference. He was by far the best organist I had ever heard. I wanted to get to know him and learn from him, so that I could better myself. He didnt take any time out to help me At that time I was good, but not that good! This is what I was seeing on a regular basis. Musicians unwilling to mentor other musicians and a lack of concern as to bringing people up to their level. I always vowed that I would not do that. So when I go places and I see someone interested in what I am doing, in terms of playing the organ,bass or piano, I will stop what I'm doing and show them what I'm doing and how to do it. No Charge! Why would I do this? Why would anyone care at all? Why do people take time out to care and to mentor someone? Why would a family adopt a child that didn't naturally come from them? What would possess anybody to do this? There is no glory in it, the newspapers won't come to your house and interview you about this, so why do it? one word "ADOPTION" Let's look at Romans 8:15."We have not received the "spirit of bondage" again unto fear, [BUT] we have received the "spirit of adoption", whereby we cry Abba Father, or plainly put "Daddy". Jesus is the ultimate Daddy. I'f you'll notice that the term" Heavenly father" is not mentioned once in the old testament. [ i'm aware that the 4 gospels is part of the old testament]. Jesus was referred to as God in most places of the old testament, especially under the Law. In the 4 gospels, Jesus was giving the people a View of God that they were not accustomed to. you mean that God could be my father? Yes. This is where the spirit of adoption came in. He in fact adopted us into His family[Galatians 4:5]. So now we are his sons. There is a point that I want to draw out of this particular scripture. "GOD HAS NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF BONDAGE AGAIN UNTO FEAR". There was a time when people were afraid to approach the Lord. Because of the sins of adam, we were alienated from the spirit that created us. Since that fall of man, we approcah God as creator, master and all these other names, but not Father nor friend. Jesus went to cross for the sins of the whole world. The full wrath of God was placed on Jesus, so it wouldn't be placed on us. Now our lives are hidden in Christ[ eph 1:4] The only way God sees me , is through the finished work of Jesus. Let me ask you a question: Is Jesus afraid of God? No[ 1john 4:17] I am not afraid to approach the Lord. have you noticed that many people refer to the Lord as God, God ,God ,God God, God, God, that's really and old testament view of Him. I challenge you to call Him Daddy, or Lord, or Jesus,Father. Watch how He responds to you. What powers the spirit of bondage; FEAR! 2tim 1:7 God has not given us the "SPIRIT OF FEAR" But of power, love and a sound mind. The spirit of bondage is not a spirit to scare people. it is a spirit to introduce unbelief. Unbelief in what? The finished work of our God, Jesus Christ. The spirit of bondage, takes the sins that you just did, and makes you believe that the price for that sin is not really paid for, and you must carry it. Now, that person believes that God has not forgiven them based on the lie that the spirit of bondage just told them! Jesus cannot adopt us until we are like him. So.. He gives us His righteouness, he gives us His holiness, He gives us His grace. So We are righteous, Holy, and are in the life of grace, because we are in Him[eph 1:4]. This is the new testament adoption. He is training, mentoring,tutoring us into the truth. So the question is ; what are you going to believe? That God is mad at you based on what you just did, or that the sin has been paid for. It is hard to call Jesus" Father" or Daddy, when you think He is mad at you. I'm going to say this: any preacher or ministry that preaches that your sins are paid, up until the one you just did, or that holiness,righteousness can be obtained by works, is a lying spirit and they are preaching false doctrine.. Run from them, flee as fast as you can. I'll end with this: Hosea 4:6 my people are destoyed for the lack of knowledge. We are not destroyed because of lack of shouting, lack of speaking in tongues, lack of choir songs, lack of preaching. It wil "ALWAYS" be because of something you don't know..... I look forward to your response!

The cleansing blood of Jesus [1st John 1:7]

Hello everybody. The goal of these teachings is bring understanding to the Body of Christ. I've seen an influx of Christians who do not know how to properly use the Word of God in their everyday life. Most sermons are focused on things that sound good, preach good, but really doesn't empower the people to live a successful live and effect society. Many live defeated lives outside of the church building. Inside the church building, all is well. They think, "if I can shout and dance enough, then the problem will go away"! To their dismay, the problem is still waiting on them when service is over. So from here on out as I teach these truths, take off your denominational eyeglasses, and look at the Word for what it really is. Look with me at 1John 1:7, " BUT" if we walk in the light as He is in the light then we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus His son "CLEANSETH" us from all sin. The verses before that refers to someone walking in darkness while they say that they are actually walking in the light. This is deception. Darkness refers to ignorance. Light refers to knowledge. This is not talking about human knowledge. It refers to revelation knowledge, that comes right out of the Holy Ghost. This is the same knowldege that The Lord used to make the worlds, and everything in it. In psalms 119:130, it says " the entrance of thy word giveth "LIGHT". This type of light is God knowledge to direct your way in life. lets go back to our foundation scripture: There are two main reasons for the shed blood of Jesus Christ; to remit our sins[ Hebrews 9:22] and to cleanse our conscienceness. When Jesus was being pursecuted by the romans soldiers, they beat him on his back, They didn't whip him on his face, they whipped him on his back. With His back turned, He couldn't see when the whipping was coming, until it hit him. These Whips had bone at the ends of it so that when it strikes you, it pull the flesh off of the person. These created stripes on his back. Today we are the "BODY OF CHRIST", but our back is turned to what is going in the world. So tragedy doesn't strike the Church until it's too late! Also it was the political leaders that put Jesus on the cross, not the religious leaders. So if you'll notice that it is always politics that "DIVIDE THE BODY OF CHRIST"! We need knowledge about the blood in the context of this scripture[1john 1:7] Jesus died for the sins of the whole world{ John 3:16]. This particular scripture is not talking to the world, but a member of the church.[remember this, when the new testament books are written by Paul to the church, the first verse of the first chapter will always read like this: grace and peace be unto from God the Father and Ther Lord Jesus Christ}. 1,2,3John doesn't start with this salutation so it is written to an individual. This word[" cleanseth"] is a constant process of continual cleansing. It is not just a one time deal. The prerequisite to this cleansing is that you have fellowship one with another. At the point that you become offended at a person,or strife, hate, or any these kinds of things that causes you to look at a person based on what they did wrong to you; At that point, the blood stops cleansing. Faith is ignited by love, and without faith it is impossible to please God[ Hebrews 11:6] It takes faith to believe anything in the scriptures. When all of the works of the flesh show up, especailly offence, it works by doubt. You can't have faith and offence at the same time. One cancels out another. When I see a fellow christian am supposed to see and treat them as if they were Jesus Christ himself, after all they are "HIS BODY". Even if they have trespassed against me or treat me wrong. I cannot, under any circumstances treat them based on how they treated me. The constant cleansing of the blood of Jesus Christ is designed to wash away all evidence of offence from your conscience, when you put your trust in it. When you don't put your trust in it, then all the offence, bitterness,resentment,hatred, remains in your mind. Then, when you see them coming[ those who offended you] then all of that ugly come up to the surface, and all you can think about them is something carnal, or mean. You might even go as far as thinking of a way to get them back for the way they treated you. All of these thoughts comes from a mindset that has not allowed the blood of Jesus to cleanse all of that away. How does it work? Faith comese by hearing and hearing by the word of God[romans 10:17] Faith has a sound to it! It is the sound of the word coming out of your mouth. Start confessing everyday: "The Blood of Jesus is cleansing me right now from every unclean,evil thought, so that I can manifest the mind of Christ". You keep doing that and God will deal with you and the person that offended you, and both of you can benefit fron the continual cleansing blood of Jesus Christ.

The Kingdom of god reality part 2

Hello out there. I hope you are doing well today. I'm really excited about this teaching concerning the Kingdom Of God. If you read the last blog, we found out that for a prince to rule while His daddy is still alive[King] His daddy has to place his son in a foreign territory, and then and only then can a prince be a king. We found out that the kingdom of God is not a denomination nor is it a religion, it is in fact, a government. And we found out that when A kingdom extend its' influence into a foreign territory, it is called colonization, but when democracy does it, it is called invasion. Now we will add another aspect to this teaching. First: When God place the garden of Eden on earth, He put it there as a seed, not a harvest. genesis 2:4 tells us that He planted this garden "BEFORE " it was in the earth. what He is saying is that the potential of the harvest is in the seed. God makes this man" from the dust of the ground". Adam was not made of the dust of the ground, his body was. Adam was a spirit like his daddy. God breathed into the mans' nostrils and then he became a living soul. God[Jesus] gives this man a commandment; Be fruitful multiply replenish the earth, and "HAVE DOMINION OVER ALL THE EARTH. The word" Dominion is a kingdom word, not a democratic word. Once Adam is Alive on earth, his job is to take that garden and spread it throughout the earth. So Adam was in fact a King. Notice however, that he was sent from a foreign land[heaven], into the earth and now he can rule down here. One of the principals for the Kingdom of God is sowing and reaping. This is what God was doing with Adam. People think that this garden was lush and beautiful, and it was,but it was in seed form. Adam has to have a vision to see the end result, not how it looks at the present. Luke 3:37 says that Adam was the son of God. So God put into adam, the same thing that was in Him. Notice what Jesus is using to usher in His government: SONS. Lets' put this into application. Genesis 39 tells a story of Joseph being sold into slavery. There was no mechanism for rulership, while he was hanging out with his brothers. God had to somehow place Joseph in a foreign land. Joseph was purchased by potiphar. So,notice this; Joseph has been bought with a price[1cor 6:20]. The blessing was on Joseph, not potiphar. Joseph starts out as a seed, and once placed into this foreign land[Egypt] He began to grow. Look with at this verse[ Genesis 39:1] look at the credintials of Potiphar: officer of Pharoah,captain of the guard, An Egyptian. if you'll notice that through the rest of this chapter, the only thing that stands out about potiphar, was that he was an egyptian. Why do you think that is written in the scritpures like that ? It is showing you that Potiphar represents another kingdom, but the kingdom of God citizen[Joseph] is going to take over that egyptian system[psalms 75:6]. What is the hallmark of Josephs ministry? FAITHFULNESS. Potiphars wife[ notice that her name is not mentioned] comes after him to try to seduce him. She is really a puppet in the hands of Satan. She eventually grabs hold of his clothes and he runs for his life. She turns around and lies on Joseph to potiphar. Potiphar puts Joseph into prison. In Genesis 39:14 and 17 she refers to joseph as "the Hebrew". Why did she point that out? She is saying that this man is from another Government. He starts out as a seed and ends up a harvest[ prime minister] of Egypt. This story is a glimpse of the Kingdom of God taking over the whole earth. Now, I will bring you into this: you are not at your job just to earn a check! God placed you there to spread the influences of the Kingdom of God in that job setting. What does this mean? It means that heaven has no sickness, poverty,sadness,divorce,hatred,dishonesty, or anything like that. You go in as a seed, and you through the agency of the Holy Ghost, began to wipe out all of satans influences at that job. 1st, you must be a good employee, show up to work on time, don't back talk the boss, don't pad your expense acoount, don't punch in early and not start working, things like that. God will give you opportunities to be a witness, but let Him do it. Unless he opens that door, you don't have an open door. I will tell you something about me: a few years ago I worked as a long distance truck driver I was gone a few days a week. I hated that job, but my family needed the money, so I did it. It was early January, and I was in the middle of a blizzard in nothern Pennsylvainia. Here I am out in the middle of nowhere, and the devil starts talking to my mind" you are going nowhere, you will die out here, the is the end for you, you are nothing. I had to put all that aside and remembered why I am out there. I get to my last delivery, I go in to talk to the store owner and he says" wait a few minutes". My mind says" im ready to go, but I waited. 5 minutes passed by, then 10,20,25 minutes. He finally came to me[ this is the amazing part]. He said " I can't understand it, this snowstorm is bad, and I have had no customers all day, UNTIL YOU SHOWED UP"! Just me showing up, prospered his business. I didn't tell him that I was a Christian, I didn't invited him to church, I just showed up and the Govenrnment of Heaven showed up with me. I'm am not here to take sides, I'm here to take over!

The Kingdom of God reality

Hello out there. I hope you are doing well today. I begin a series of blog teachings on a very powerful subject. We will be talking about The Kingdom Of God.
We will be taking our reading from 2 places [Mat 17:4] and Isaiah 9:6]. Jesus came preaching the Kingdom of heaven is at hand[or has arrived]. Mark 1:15 talks about the kingdom of God is at hand.

I want to lay some ground work for this. 1st, this kingdom of God is a theocracy or ruled by one person, Jesus Christ. It is not a democracy. In Democracy, you can vote your president,mayor,congressman,goverener in and you can vote them out. You can vote one what laws are passed and which ones fail, but in the Kingdom of God thats not so. Once He lays down a law or commandment, that's it. He is not concerned about your point of view about it, neither can you vote him in or out. It is a completely different way of operation.

Most of us were born in a democratic society and have no concept of Kingdom. Unfortunately, we have taken that mentality and applied to the spiritual realm. Democracy does not work in the spirit, PERIOD. A king gets his glory from territory.
the more territory He gets, the greater his glory. When a king has a son, he is referred to as prince[ which means 1st]. The prince is next in line for the throne.
the only way a prince can become a king, is if his daddy dies[King] or if the prince is placed in a foreign territory. let's say that there is a king and his son wants to rule now; then the king sends his son into a foreign land, and gives him provision, citizens and military backing, then there the prince can be a king. A prince cannot be a king while he is still at home with daddy.

When a kingdom wants to extend it's influences into a foreign land, it is called colonization. When democracy wants to extend its' influences into a foreign land, it is called invasion. The Prince takes with him people from his home land to that foreign colony, so that the influences of where he came from, can be experienced in that colony. You can't colonize with natives, you must have poepl who understand the culture and government of where they came from.

This is the groundwork for the kingdom of God. He wants His infulences to this earth to be administered by something He calls his sons[Romans 8:14] When you were born again, your citizenship was no longer from earth, you are a citizen of Heaven
[Philippians 3:20]. That word "conversation" means citizenship. So, when The King sends His son into a foreign land, to rule there, the son becomes king, so His daddy is referred to as the King of Kings[rev 19;16][rev 17;14]

Here is a nugget for you: In Isaiah 9:6 it says He shall be called Wonderful, counsellor, the mighty God, "PRINCE OF PEACE". If you'll notice that Jesus is called the prince of peace in this scripture, but not the King of peace. For Him to be called the King of peace, he has to leave heaven and come to earth, or a foreign terrirory. Once He is here, He is referred to as the King of peace. He was the incarnate Melchisedec in gen 14. As long as Jesus stayed in heaven He was prince of peace, but not King of peace.

Chuck Lewis

Chuck Lewis

!st Tim 4:1 Seducing spirits

hello out there I hope all is well with you today. The last time we left off, we were talking about the doctrine of devils, and that devil know how to teach. they teach people how to fail, cheat ,lie, steal, slap the wife, etc. if you didn't read that blog, i would encourage you to do so. today we continue with that teaching, In 1st Timothy 4:1 it talks about giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrine of devils. Look at the order for which it was written. 1] Seducing spirits 2] doctrine of devils. They can't teach you until they first seduce you. A seducing spirit is any spirit or influence that makes you do something against your will without you know it. I'm not talk about submission, where you yield your will to do the will of Jesus, i'm talking about You wanting to stop smoking but there is something talking in your ear[subconscious] that tells you that you want another one. These spirits will continue to say it until you either 1st rebuke them or submit to them. So let's began Jesus said in John 8:32, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. In order to know the truth, we must first establish what is a lie. from here i will go to finish this blog in word document, because this particular blog site, will not allow me to break up the paragraphs so it will be easier to read. You may contact me for the rest of this teaching at Chuckvlewis@yahoo.com