Monthly Message
April, 2026
In our ministry of reconciliation and encouragement, we endeavour to convey to you that God the Father has a special place in his heart for you. In this personal relationship with you, he desires to teach you his ways and his will and purpose. The focus of our ministry is to instruct that Jesus Christ is your teacher through the power of the Holy Spirit and what he writes upon your heart will bear witness to the prophecy of scripture. To still the madness of the despairing voices in the world is not an easy task, but can be achieved by keeping our hearts and minds stayed upon the Lord. When you and you alone, know that God teaches you and causes you to humbly walk in obedience to his voice, it brings great contentment to your heart. The obedience of faith goes against the grain of this world’s desires and if it wasn’t for the faithfulness of Jesus to his Word none of us would be able to stand. Not only will Jesus teach you the will of God, he will sustain you, encourage you, sanctify you and bring you into glory. He is the true and just one and justifies those that come to him through faith.
April 2026 Message
Romans 8: 13-1413 “For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if you by the Spirit put to death
the deeds of the body, you will live, 14 because those who are led by the Spirit are sons of God.
- Dear Friends,
- The gospel is an everlasting gospel of good news. It would not be a gospel if it did not contain good news. It would not have any validity if it came out of the carnal mind of man. It would have no credibility if it could have been invented as a placebo to satisfy the anxiety and despair of troubled human endeavours brought about by distorted thought patterns. The true thoughts that constitute the good news of the gospel came from another source outside the ability of human resources and capability.
- Where did all thoughts of the gospel originate from?
- The scripture in Isaiah gives us the answer.
- Isaiah 55: 6-12
- 6 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater. 11 So my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. 12 You will go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
- The thoughts of love, mercy, grace, forgiveness, pardon, peace, salvation, sanctification, holiness, redemption etc. didn’t come from the mind of man, they came from the mind of God. We must seek the Lord who is ever near and listen to HIS voice and understand God is for us and not against us and the end is better than the beginning. Hope saves us and hope comes by faith in the Word of Christ. We can and must believe in the good news of the gospel over and above what we see and hear from the world and our own thoughts.
- Those that do not obey the word of truth of the gospel of Christ, will be over powered by the satanic whispers which grow stronger as they accommodate the thoughts of unbelief.
- Luke 21: 25-26
- 25 On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea (climate change). 26 Men will faint from terror, (wars and fighting’s) apprehensive of what is coming on the world, (financial upheaval), for the heavenly bodies will be shaken (false religious and false prophetic predictions that arouse false hopes, fears and false promises - the rapture etc.)
- We must be eternally vigilant in not following any other philosophy or religious ideology that does not portray the nature and beauty of Jesus Christ the Sovereign Lord who is the redeemer of fallen creation. The enemy of men’s souls plants the corrupt seed of unbelief while the people sleep. We must be awake to the true righteousness of God that is in Christ alone and depart from doctrines and false teaching that attempts to elevate our thinking into our own righteousness. If our thoughts exceed the truth that Jesus is the only way to the Father, we have joined the “traffic jammed” road to destruction.
- We must take our journey and sojourn through this world by faith in God through Jesus Christ who is the express image of the Father, by doing all things in the power of the Holy Spirit. This power of the Holy Spirit is not to elevate you and make you something more worthy than you ought to be. No, it is to humble you in this world and wait for the elevation into the thoughts and ways of Jesus. This is the remarkable miracle of sharing, but not owning the mind of Christ as a personal accomplishment. It is a gift. We are continually challenged by the prince of this world to adopt the “double mind” where we receive nothing from the Lord. It is a continual walk of faith that keeps our heart and mind in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the true “dunamis” or explosive power that works by humble love and speaks in new tongues. This overcoming power of humble love which brings death to the old nature, is the new language or tongue that is the gift of the Holy Spirit. This is not the babble of “Babel” that so-called teachers proclaim in today’s assemblies. The gospel of Jesus Christ as Lord over all, and the message of the arrival of the kingdom of God, along with the reality that the “righteous One” is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world – this is the “new tongue”, the new language taught by the Holy Spirit of God.
- Now the new believer does not rely on rituals and doctrines taught by men, but relies on full trust in the Holy Spirit to bring to their remembrance the teachings and the understanding of the sayings of Christ.
- Faith which works by love, creates a new language or tongue for the believer. This is the message of love.
- John 3: 16-21
- 16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
- Hebrews 11: 6
- Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and he rewards those that diligently seek him.
- Okay – so how can I know what is true faith?
- True faith only has one origin and it does not include the world’s definition of faith.
- Romans 10: 17
- Consequently faith comes by hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
- This is the saving faith that heals.
- It is not just a belief in what men deem is faith. True saving faith comes from the thoughts and ways of God, and this is administered through the Holy Spirit and him alone, not through the thoughts and ways of men.
- Jesus said; he who believes will be saved and have everlasting life.
- The question may then be asked; what must I believe to have the faith that pleases God and delivers me from death to life?
- John 17: 1-5
- 1 After Jesus said this he looked toward heaven and prayed; “Father the time has now come, glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
- The works of God are for us to believe.
- John 6: 28-29
- 28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
- We can now pray for help with our unbelief. Unbelief is the teaching and mantra of Satan. Just as he tempted Jesus with the question. “If” yes “if” you are the Son of God, turn these stones into bread. This is the question posed to Jesus immediately after he had heard a voice from heaven declare, “this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”
- Satan still uses the same temptation on believers. “If” you are a Christian, why do you sin and disobey God? The answer to this is -
- He that says he has no sin is a liar and the truth is not in him. By this we deceive ourselves.
- If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
- Sin is too strong for us, so we need one stronger than ourselves to overcome and bind the strongman and take the captives to sin from his grip, and then glorify them in the presence of God.
- God provided us with a ram in the thicket. This lamb is and was the Righteous One, Jesus Christ. Our faith in Jesus and trust in his sacrificial work on the cross, along with our obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit, is evidence we are sons of God.
- We as repentant sinners have no righteousness of our own, but now we have an advocate who stands in the judgement hall before God’s presence as our redeemer. The redeemer is Jesus Christ the righteous One. This is the gospel of grace that allows flesh and blood creatures, marred with the mark of Adam, Eve and Cain to have access into God’s kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy. The truth believed by faith fills their hearts and minds by the Word and Spirit granting overcoming power. This down payment of our inheritance is granted us as a free gift through the Holy Spirit even while we live in this body of flesh and blood. This is granted us before we are given our heavenly body which will be in the exact same likeness as Jesus’ heavenly body. This is the dunamis overcoming power of faith, that the Holy Spirit ministers to us as we travel through this world. It can only be received through faith because we cannot yet see it with our eyes whilst we dwell in this body of clay.
- In this unobservable kingdom of God, Jesus is the supreme ruler, and when the allotted time is over he will deliver this kingdom unto his Father without spot or wrinkle and all will be one in God.
- The grave and its decay is not the time that we are delivered into the kingdom of God. NO! The time we are delivered into the kingdom of God is at the cross. This deliverance into Christ’s kingdom is when we are crucified with Christ by faith and the world is crucified to us and we are crucified to the world. Our life is hid with Christ in God. It is no longer I that lives, but now I live by the faith of Christ who loved me and died for me.
- This is true faith and at that time the pure in heart will see God because they rest not in their own righteousness, but live by the righteousness granted to them by the sacrifice of God’s only begotten Son. Only faith in Jesus Christ is saving faith. Yet this is not a liberty to live by the sinful nature. No! this faith works by love and overcomes by love. This love never fails. This love does not glory in its own thoughts of accomplishments or its own ideas of what love is. This love is not the love that is corrupted by natural thinking. This love is the love that Jesus displayed when he walked on this earth. This love was demonstrated when he freely laid down his life for his friends.
- This love is first and foremost exercised with purity in the wisdom of humility and meekness in selfless obedience towards God. Out of the same heart of obedience in all things, it loves God the Father with all its strength, desire and truth. And with the same heart and desire it loves its neighbour. On this hangs the whole law and the prophets. If this is not the love that proceeds from the heart, this heart will misinterpret the scriptures. It will build kingdoms in this world that are not from heaven and the will of God is then obstructed by the deceitfulness of Satanic wisdom. Love of the world and the lust of other things will corrupt the message, but has no power to corrupt the truth of the gospel, because a lie is a lie and the truth is the truth.
- Satan does not only use hate of fellow neighbours to grow his kingdom, he uses corrupted distorted, lustful love to achieve his goals. In this endeavour he uses man to deceive men, men who are filled with the anti-Christ nature. The battle we face is not against flesh and blood, but the wickedness and evil propagated through corrupt institutions in this world of which the so-called religious concur too, by bowing down to the satanic claims.
- We as true believers are all tempted to rebel against the truth. We must “buy the truth and sell it not”. We can do nothing against the truth, only for it. The truth that is in Jesus and him alone will prevail. “Fear not for I am with you and will never forsake you” is the true promise of Jesus Christ. In this world we will have tribulation, sorrow and pain because it is the domain of Satan; but Jesus said; “Fear not, for I have overcome the world”. We must not rebuild the things that Christ destroyed, those things that established a righteousness of our own. Temple building, circumcision of the flesh and not of the heart, Sabbath keeping and holy days, and law keeping.
- There are only two kingdoms in the earth. The kingdom of Satan which accommodates thousands of kingdoms all of which end in futility. In the great temptation of Jesus, the devil offered him all these kingdoms. We are also offered these various kingdoms in some shape or form. But we must resist the devil and pledge faithful allegiance to the one everlasting kingdom of God, of which Christ is the Head and Principal thereof.
- Luke 4: 5-8
- 5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of this world. 6 And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendour, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. 7 So if you worship me, it will be all yours.” 8 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only' ".
- This is the same answer we must give at a time of being tempted to follow the world and its ways.
- Jesus is the “way” the “truth” and the “life” and he is the person that the Holy Spirit teaches us to follow.
- We cannot see Jesus, but through the “eye of faith” and the testimony of the written word we love him. This written word inspired by God was given to chosen men as they yielded to the Spirit of Christ through the Holy Spirit. This same word of truth can only be understood through us yielding to the mind of Christ.
- How can we know which is the mind of Christ?
- Philippians 2: 5-11
- 5 Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.
- 6 Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be exploited.
- 7 But made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
- 8 And being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross.
- 9 Therefore God highly exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
- 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
- 11 And every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- The ways and the thoughts of God are completely different to the ways of the world. The so-called church or denominations are so far apart from being united in Christ that the devil is laughing all the way to hades. Their success or failure as a kingdom relies on lies, distortions and trust in the deceitfulness of mammon. They lord it over people in hierarchy structures that mirror the gentiles and old covenant scriptures. They cannot trust the Holy Spirit to lead people to Christ through the gospel and then continue to uphold and strengthen them to be led into the kingdom of God through the eligibility of the new birth. The apocalyptic teachings that put everything afar off, instead of retaining the teachings of Christ which leads to eschatological truths of the kingdom of God being amongst us NOW. The cross is an offence to them and the exaltation and praise of men is regarded over and above the exaltation and worship of God through faith in Christ Jesus as Lord.
- Matthew 11: 28-30
- 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 My yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Bill & Sue (servants of Christ)
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We have written this because Jesus taught us this way.
In the past the teachings of men with other motives and intentions other than to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ,
who were steeped in denominational dead works robbed us of the life of Christ and burdened us with
elemental rules and regulations.
What Christ had freed us from, we once again became entangled in the yoke of bondage.
We praise God that for freedom Christ set us free.
This is not a freedom to do as we will, but it is a freedom to serve Christ without breaking the royal law of love.
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