Where is that church, the one operating in obedience and the power of God?  We talked about all of the great doctrine that the Lord’s been ministering to us as a people, and Him bringing us together as one, but there’s multiple doctrines that are going to prepare us, the bride, to purify the bride for the return of the Lord Jesus.  And with the adversity coming, if these collapses that we’ve talked about don’t happen in a day.  Do you really think that America is always going to have health insurance and healthcare?  Do you really believe that?  Are you trusting in that?  Is that your normative thought, that, “I’ll always have this.”  Do you know that it can be gone in a moment?

The interest that we’re paying on our national debt, the majority over—I believe it’s close to 25 percent of the interest that’s going is going to two items, the fact that we’ve already stolen and borrowed all of Social Security.  Social Security doesn’t exist, it’s a faith venture.  And we’re paying back into all the money we stole from Social Security from the 1960’s with Johnson.  Social Security and Medicare are the two top items.  They receive the most money.  They’re bankrupt, in other words.  We’re paying interest, we’re paying these things back.  You think it’s always going to be there?  It’s so nice of your company—do you think they’re always going to pay half of your IRAs and pay half, match whatever else is being matched in the package you have?  Maybe I’m wrong.  I can’t sit here and absolutely say that’s what’s going to happen.  But I am saying it wouldn’t hurt for us to be prepared in our hearts and in our minds.  “Can I practice faith?”  Yes, we can practice faith by practicing faithfulness to the Word of God in every area.  Being a doer.  “He that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin, it’s transgression” (James 4:17).

Another principle as we grow: to him that has shall more be given.  I know that in the over 50 years of my life of walking in the Spirit, the different times that the ebbing of faith and relying in God and the faith, that gift of grace that we appropriate by stepping out and acting on it, it varies.  But I do know that I’ve been in that realm to a greater degree than I’m in it, right now.  I’m going backwards.  Let’s call it by a polite word, backsliding, in the walking out of this covenant that Jesus paid for with His blood, and am not trusting in Him and relying in Him, today, like I have at other times in my life.  And I don’t want to finish that way.  And I know what the Bible affords us.  So, when I look at these different passages that talk to us about who Jesus was, what He did in His ministry, Him being that representative, we look and have to ask the question, “Well, was that just Him?  Was that just for Him?” From the very beginning, we know that the Scripture says, that He came for the house of Israel.

Remember, there was a time when the woman came to Him to ask for healing, and what a rude response, from the natural perspective, that Jesus made.  He said, “This is bread for the house of Israel, alone.  I’ve come to bring the kingdom to the house of Israel.  Should I give it to dogs?”  “I understand that, Master, but even the dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from the Master’s table.”  “Lady, I’ve never seen faith like this.” The miracle; amen?  We don’t deserve it.  But I’ll tell you something: we’re not the dogs anymore.  We sit at the Master’s table, and it’s for us.  This is for us.  We’ve been adopted, we are sons of God, heirs and joint heirs with Christ Jesus.