That I May Know Him - Steve Dittmar

Congratulations! Merry Christmas! What a great week of readings to end the year! This week, we conclude the reading of the ENTIRE BIBLE!!! Well done, good and faithful ones! The more I’m in the Bible, the more ingredients God has to work with in how He speaks to my heart. Can you yield to God in this uncomfortable moment that you didn’t choose? This week’s theme is: “Humble yourself before God and He will exalt you.” From the end of Acts and Paul’s shipwreck en route to testifying in Rome, to the end of the world in Revelation, through the completion of the wall around Jerusalem and the restoration of worship in Nehemiah, to Esther being raised up to save her entire people group, and Malachi’s last words to Israel before the 400 years of silence—every book this week is a story of letting God be glorified in less than optimal circumstances. Each story draws us back to repentance and purity of faith and worship to the Lord Jesus Christ! Malachi challenges Israel with questions, prompting them to consider the state of their hearts towards God. He’s going to purify the priesthood. This book is a call to return to worship and tithing in faith and truth.  Esther chooses to step into becoming an intercessor for her whole nation, when she just thought she was going to be queen.  Nehemiah gave all to see his nation restored, and before long, they returned again to idolatry!  Revelation leaves John in the vision of the Glorious King Jesus, the New Jerusalem, the faithful servants, and the Lord’s announcement that He is coming soon!  And lastly, Paul has already lost his life so many times that he has little fear in facing whatever lies ahead to testify of Jesus in Rome.Next week begins Week 1 even though it’s the last week of December. Keep going. Don’t stop now. The Word is coming alive inside of you! Scripture Readings: Tier One—NT: Acts 24-28, Revelation 15-22 Tier Two—OT: Nehemiah 10-13, Esther 1-10, Malachi 1-4 Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

What’s your life worth? Steve and Diana discuss how Paul is so ready to lay his life down for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ being preached. He has lost all to gain Christ.  Nehemiah has let the grief of the state of his nation overtake him and it’s threatening his own life in court. But he will also lose all to see the restoration of his people and the wall of his city.Both Paul and Nehemiah face huge opposition and pressure to the point of risking their very lives. Is our own life or our assignment from heaven more important? What compels us past comfort and convenience? Each book in this week’s readings brings us back to the value of faith, of worship, of devotion to the living God, and that life unto ourselves is unto our own destruction.At times, Scripture can feel like it’s mocking us because we are so far from being able to accomplish what we are reading. But if we allow it to be a door to discovery, the Spirit brings us along, even in our fumblings, to see Jesus and to become like Him. If you find yourself crazy busy this week before Christmas, you can listen to the Scriptures read to you daily on our Jubilee app. Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

The Church will grow! Steve and Diana discuss the chaos of the new church of Jesus Christ developing. Miracles are happening! Many are coming to faith! And persecution is already alive and well. One minute the Gentiles are worshiping Paul and Barnabas as Gods for the healing of a lame man, and next, they want to stone them. Stephen is stoned to death for preaching the truth of Christ and the Jews’ betrayal of Him. We are a fickle people—we want to worship something or kill it. Then comes the argument of how Gentiles can be saved by Jesus alone, or must they be circumcised? But the apostles maintained hearts of devotion and reasoned with them, “It seemed good to us AND to the Holy Spirit.” The church is established in truth, but must remain rooted and grounded in Love.In Revelation, we see the glorified Christ. Jesus is now our great High Priest, making intercession for us. More than anything, Revelation is about the coming again of the glorified Christ, ruler of all the earth. Rather than just focusing on trying to predict when the end times will occur, perhaps approach it from a different point of view. Read the letters to each church and ask Holy Spirit to search your own heart in each one. “Where am I in this church, Lord?” Then take each of the chapters where there is worship in the throne room and find yourself among the saints and angels worshiping Him.  We go into the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem in Ezra and then start back into the Prophets through the end of the year.  Every work of God will face resistance. It’s in the pressure that faith is chosen and it builds within us, or we turn to our own ways. God will always give a call to repentance and door of escape. May this be a season of re-capturing our hearts and returning to the Lord. Scripture Readings: Tier One—NT: Acts 12-17, Revelation 1-7 Tier Two—OT: Ezra 3-10, Haggai 1-2, Zechariah 1-8Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Steve and Diana discuss the beginning of the Christian church and how the Holy Spirit immediately establishes that Truth is Important! The greater the Light, the greater the accountability.  What you can do in the Outer Court will get you killed in the Inner Court. The event with the immediate deaths of Annanias and Sapphira results in the fear of the Lord throughout the Church, and then miracles follow.  Simon the Sorcerer is rebuked for thinking he could buy the power of God, and it’s revealed that his heart is full of bitterness and iniquity. Our zeal can’t cover our motives. Again, it’s about the heart: Paul’s zeal was in direct opposition to the God he believed he was serving until He encountered Him in a totally disarming and humbling moment. But that moment led to his maturing, which then led to his dismantling the exact structure of Law he was initially trying to defend! When the Light shines on us, it reveals what’s already inside of us. Full disclosure means nothing hidden, and it begins when we believe in the resurrection, because Jesus paid for all my darkness. The essence of our spiritual maturation lies in our ever-increasing capacity to know the glorious Son, Jesus Christ. Chronicles is a great reflection of how it goes when we have a heart that diligently seeks Him versus our own ways. Israel wasn’t necessarily always turning from the Lord. They oftentimes were just adding to the Lord. And the priests often became lazy. Hezekiah repents for the sins of Israel, and prays for God’s mercy to allow them to move the day they celebrate Pentecost (they couldn’t get the priests ready in time). God hears his prayer, forgives their sin, and heals the people. They experience a time of peace as they remove the ungodly altars and practices. But then there are more wicked kings throughout the next 130 years, even with Josiah, the good and faithful king, in the middle. We are a funny (and foolish) people. Scripture Readings: Tier One—NT:  Acts 1-5, 1 John 1-5, 2 John, 3 John, Jude Tier Two—OT: 2 Chronicles 30-36Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Steve starts this week’s podcast with Psalm 56:3. When I feel fear, it’s a sign that it’s time to trust. By placing ourselves in the Word of God when we are in fear, it will lead us into faith through great trust (in His power and not our own ability to save ourselves). If we don’t know the Word of God, we will follow fables about Jesus. When we are not constantly in the Word, fables become our primary doctrine. And we add-on things to Jesus’ salvation, which will destroy us rather than save us. This is Peter’s week: John 20-21, Acts 1-4, I Peter and II Peter. We walk his journey of failure and being called back by Jesus in the same manner as he was at first. Once Peter massively fails Jesus, he returns to who he was before he met Jesus: a fisherman with empty nets. When we are face-to-face with our failures, if we don’t return to the Lord, we will return to ourselves in the lie of separation from Him. Yet, in His sovereignty and mercy—“I’ve prayed for you, Peter, that your FAITH WILL NOT FAIL, AND WHEN YOU RETURN, strengthen your brothers.”—the Lord is right there waiting to restore Peter into his calling and inheritance, “Follow me.” Peter’s experience of Jesus (eating, living, breathing with Him for 3 years) did not give him the capacity to confess Christ before a servant girl. In Acts 3, it was the Holy Spirit  Who brought the Word of God forward with power through Peter to witness to the resurrection of Jesus, which is declared in Scripture. And Peter who failed miserably without the Holy Spirit in-dwelling, becomes the father and discipler of the new Church of Jesus Christ in I and II Peter.  The Word shows me ME. It reveals my heart in the mirror of Who Jesus is. It calls me out of darkness (my own self-deception) into His glorious light (the sanctification of Jesus). We are to reflect Christ, not through our gifting, but through our submission. We need to be born again…again. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: John 20-21, Acts 1-4, 1 Peter 2-5, 2 Peter 1-3 Tier Two – OT: 2 Chronicles 22-29Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

In John 13, we see Peter swear he won’t leave Jesus. Steve and Diana discuss the dichotomy of trying to follow Jesus with our own strength versus a faith that remains regardless of our failings. We will always try to follow Christ first by resourcing ourselves. But when we have failed, He has already prayed for our faith not to fail so that we can return. Jesus didn’t say, “If anyone loves Me, he’ll do exactly what I told them and never make a mistake again.” Rather, He inferred, “You will value my Word even though you cannot perform it.” It’s counterintuitive to submit to God even though we can’t change the circumstances.  I become known by God in the undoing of my self-image. Satan thought for sure he could be important apart from God. In His love for us, God has rescued us through Jesus Christ from believing we could be anything without Him, His glory, and His grace. Peter could not have become the Peter of Acts without his greatest failure. Jesus prayed for him ahead of that moment, and apparently His faith didn’t fail. The good news wasn’t that Peter became perfect…it was that he was perfected in faith through his failings. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: John 13-19, Hebrews 13, James 1-5, 1 Peter 1 Tier Two – OT: 2 Chronicles 13-21Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Steve and Diana talk about what it takes to run the race of endurance in these last days. John 12:48 says the Word of God will judge us in the last days. Did I uphold His Word above all else? When we see Jesus in the Scriptures, we receive revelation. To see Jesus is to behold Him in His glory. The glory will do one of 2 things to us: it will either undo us unto repentance and sanctification, or we will become blinded and live in blindness to Truth. A house divided cannot stand. Satan loves to create division. If we aren’t listening and hearing our Shepherd’s voice, in His Word, we will be quickly led out of safety into danger and destruction. Satan’s counting on it. Hebrews chapters 11 and 12 encourage the believer to faith. Faith is what begets endurance. The function of faith is to always bring us back to Jesus. The race of endurance is always to be run with Him in front of us. And that’s the joy! Jesus’s joy was to do the will of the Father.Everything is about the heart’s response, so that the Kingdom that we’re receiving will be with grace to serve Him with reverence and godly fear. Forgiveness must come first, and then the Kingdom. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: John 7-12, Hebrews 6-12  Tier Two – OT: 2 Chronicles 5-12Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Jesus was only concerned about doing the Father’s will. The more I put Jesus into a natural mindset as I read Scripture, the more I will miss the point of what He was trying to bring. The Bible is not a book of logic. It is a book of faith. Sonship is not expressed through the exercising of our rights, but rather through the heart that comes to serve as Jesus did. Without our hearts softening like faith-filled children, we will continue to strengthen our own wills to the point of resistance to God and to the ways He is offering to save us from our own unrighteousness. Even though God called David a man of war, He released the vision and provision for the temple to be built. He is a God of peace. And David had no problem trusting that because his heart was in union with God. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: John 1-6, Titus 1-3, Philemon, Hebrews 1-5  Tier Two – OT: 1 Chronicles 26-29, 2 Chronicles 1-4Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

When we fail, but faith doesn't. Christ lived rooted and grounded in love, dependent upon grace as He suffered unjustly, repeatedly. We are to live in that same grace. Jesus prayed that Peter’s faith wouldn’t fail, even though he did. The Lord delineates between our faith and our soulish actions. He knows we will fail, yet He prays that our faith will prevail. The Father doesn’t keep us from sin; He provides grace to return over and over while we are being conformed to the image of His Son. Jesus sees in me the parts that seem impossible. He’s not trying to capture us to shame us, but to call us back to Himself, to salvation, to freedom. King David goes from taking a census (counting his army to determine his own strength) which results in the death of many to repenting and receiving the vision for the temple. What’s the biggest lie? That we can do life without total dependence on God. Only God can grant repentance, the ability to hold a new thought. Repentance leads us to the knowledge of the Truth. Truth is Jesus Christ, and what brings us to our senses so we can escape the devil’s snare. Peter would not have become the Peter of Acts without his greatest failure. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Luke 19-24, 1 Thessalonians 4-5, 2 Thessalonians 1-3, 1 Timothy 1-6, 2 Timothy 1-4 Tier Two – OT: 1 Chronicles 17-25Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcwa

Walking with Jesus means He will remove everything we can point to within ourselves to prove we are good. We don’t use Scripture to gain our advantages. We submit to Scripture to be all made one in Jesus. Scripture is how we welcome Jesus Christ into the conversation. Proximity is not what God came for; rather, He came so we would know Him most intimately.  God hides things from us until our hearts are humble and ready to search Him out. God is not looking for compliance but coming back into His likeness…surrender.The best place to hide is religion. We learn to hear the Word in each other and to recognize Jesus in each other. All of us are being brought to the Cross, to some form of agreement with the truth. We are all in the same process of salvation through sanctification into the Glory, where we will become like Him. We must remember that God is holy, no matter how big an act of service we can give to Him. His holiness must be revered. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Luke 13-18, Ephesians 3-6, Philippians 1-4, Colossians 1-4, 1 Thessalonians 1-3  Tier Two – OT: 1 Chronicles 9-16, Habakkuk 2-3, Zephaniah 1-3Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Faith cannot survive in the environment of judgment. Jesus is working to bring all of us out of slavery into sonship. We often entrench ourselves in our opinions and ways of worship and end up resisting the Lord and His love. Anything that keeps me from knowing Christ is in itself satanic. While Jesus goes after the hardness of heart by letting a “sinful” woman wash His feet during dinner, Paul goes after the hardness of heart in the Corinthian church. Pre-judging of any situation is prejudice. No judgment apart from love will produce the Kingdom of God. God’s hope for each of us is that we come into the inheritance of His Son, Jesus, out of darkness into His glorious light. Come out of anything that’s exalting itself against the knowledge of our God and the work of His Son. Come and live! Our hope is in believing that we can. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Luke 6-12, 2 Corinthians 9-13, Galatians 1-6, Ephesians 1-2 Tier Two – OT: 1 Chronicles 1-8, Song of Solomon 6-8, Habakkuk 1Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

To be strong in faith and brave, we must be rooted in love. Without love, we can get mission-focused and leave off the heart of His mission in us. God never wastes a single moment of our lives. In everything that happens to us, Jesus Christ has a purpose to be revealed there and then to be sovereign through it. With the paralytic, Jesus reveals that it’s much easier to heal someone than to forgive them! Am I judging each moment by my opinion and its impact on me (against me), or am I perceiving what the Lord is actually doing in this moment? God’s authority is unto forgiveness ALWAYS and in every situation.    The function of iniquity is “I will. My way.” I do it daily. But the Song of Solomon reminds us of coming to be loved, and of the maturing of love. He has chosen us to love us for who we are. “Please bring your heart to me and let Me kiss the wound and heal you.”The faith we are invited into is in Jesus. We come into the faith OF Jesus. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Mark 15-16, Luke 1-5, 1 Corinthians 16, 2 Corinthians 1-8  Tier Two – OT: 2 Kings 17-25, Song of Songs 1-5, Micah 7, Nahum 1-3Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Everything God does is never out of line with His nature. Adherence to that truth through belief in His Word and by the power of Holy Spirit is what will “Satan-proof” me. And God gave us all of that in the man, Jesus Christ. If I will accept that I have been invited not to principles but to a Man, I will enjoy all the benefits of that relationship. When the father with the epileptic son comes for help, Jesus first ministers to the Dad by challenging him to have faith (belief). Faith is in His ability. As the pressure comes, our world gets smaller. Consequently, so does our hope and the expectancy we had when we first encountered Jesus. And we shut down. But Jesus calls us to our part in the equation, “If you can believe, all things are possible.” Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Mark 9-14, 1 Corinthians 7-15  Tier Two – OT: 2 Kings 9-16, Ecclesiastes 7-12 Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Patience before comfort. Only the Scriptures have the authority to demand and command our obedience. We are God’s field and building (I Cor. 4:9), but the foundation is Jesus Christ. We will get judged by the materials we build with. Will we build with our own intentions and giftings (flesh) or by faith, submission, worship, laying down our lives? When we are in partnership with the Lord, our building materials can have a minutiae appearance but have a great substance and massive impact Kingdom-wise.  Solomon showed us that not even wisdom can save us when our hearts are disconnected from the Lord.The softened heart will yield even when it doesn’t understand. If I am only in for my own benefit, I will only want to hear what encourages and comforts me, not what corrects me. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Mark 3-8, Romans 15-16, 1 Corinthians 1-6 Tier Two – OT: 1 Kings 22, 2 Kings 1-8, Ecclesiastes 2-6, Micah 4-6Jubilee Southern California    Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

If we try to prevent pain by stopping God (now, not in OT times), chances are we just delay the growth process for ourselves or someone else.  How do we partner with God? By submitting to His Truth, His Word, His Spirit, and not to our own opinions and ways. Jonah’s (justifiable) opinion of the Ninevites stood in the way of God’s plan, and it didn’t go well for him. How do we share our faith without imposing our opinion on others? Romans clearly informs us this week that we must hold our faith unto Christ. God may require something of me that He isn’t requiring of you in practice of our faith. Jesus only held the Father’s Words as His opinion. He chose humility every time. “Satan wasn’t trying to extinguish God, he was trying to be equal with God.”  Yet, Jesus did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage, but took on a lower form of human flesh. If we keep the Word in our hearts, it will save our soul.Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

The fruit of being justified by Jesus Christ is peace. Am I at peace with God today? Conformity into the image of Jesus is God’s prime directive for us. Apart from knowing Jesus, I can’t see the Father rightly. If I can’t see the Father rightly, as He truly is, I cannot rightly see myself. We’ve got to learn to stand in grace, not in our own ability. In Leviticus, the King was to make 2 copies of the Torah and to carry a copy with himself at all times, constantly reading it. When we leave off the Word of God, we quickly wander from Him. And often we don’t even recognize how far we’ve gone from His truth.  Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Matthew 18-23, Romans 1-7, Revelation 22 Tier Two – OT: 1 Kings 5-13, Proverbs 22-26, Amos 9, Obadiah 1, Jonah 1Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

From Matthew to John in Revelation, the Lord is calling us to behold Him in His word. He gives each of us eyes to see, but they become clouded by the cares of life, spiritual opposition, distraction, and hardship. If we want clarity in this moment, we must SEE JESUS. If we are struggling and straining, God wants to put His yoke on us…not unto slavery, but actually unto liberation! The process of being “known” by the God, through vulnerability and a constant softening of our hearts is what keeps our hearts from growing cold. If we hear His voice, don’t harden our hearts, but actually listen to what He’s calling us out of and into, we are instantly set free! We all need a young heart with matured faith. Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Matthew 11-17, Revelation 15-21 Tier Two – OT: 2 Samuel 21-24, 1 Kings 1-4, Proverbs 16-21, Amos 3-8Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Often we can’t hear God’s voice because our soul wants one outcome, so we refuse to listen to anything else He may actually be speaking. We can’t use His Word to change His will into our favor. His Word is always sent forth to perform His will. Turning toward His voice is the sign that you’ve heard His voice and that you’re surrendered enough to listen. I will hear His voice when I'm ready to obey His will rather than trying to bend Him to mine. The Kingdom of our God is relational. It’s about our Father and you and me. God judges according to the matters of the heart.  We see the mess and think, “This could have been mitigated.” But we don’t need mitigation, we need intercession. We need someone to mediate for us so we can come into the discovery of His heart, the recognition of the condition of our own hearts, and the inheritance of His love and riches laid up for us in union with Him through Jesus Christ. God will take any mess we make and use that conflict as the means for us to find Him.  Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Matthew 5-10, Revelation 8-14 Tier Two – OT: 2 Samuel 13-20, Proverbs 10-15, Hosea 14, Joel 1-3, Amos 1-2Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

God’s truth makes us free. How can we know it? We have to park in the Scriptures and invite the Author to read it to us until it gets inside of us. What if we read the Bible to know God more than what’s going on in the world? If we get to know him more, then He can inform us about the world according to His perspective. For instance, read Daniel or Revelation as an encounter to be had inside of the Lord’s rule and reign, rather than as a predictor of end times. They are both, but the former will inform the latter according to His truth. Beholding the Lamb is the information that leads to our transformation to be ready for anything that comes. We see the contrast between a heart after God and a heart in self-preservation as we read II Samuel. For David, when he was caught in sin, was when he was found by the Father. God’s intention is to catch and release, but in our humanity and fear, we think being caught is to be killed.   Truth seen is not yet known. But when Truth is known, it becomes freedom! Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Matthew 1-4, Acts 26-28, Revelation 1-7 Tier Two – OT: 2 Samuel 4-12, Proverbs 5-9, Hosea 9-13Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw

Steve and Diana lead into this week’s podcast by discussing how A.I. is merely a mirror of humanity, not of the Creator. It is not a creator, but a reflector. It will have a great role in the last days toward serving the Antichrist, as it has no moral compass because it lacks the heart of God. Hosea states, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.” That knowledge is of God, of His heart, and thus of His ways. Without our submission to His truth and leadership, we reproduce the fruit of a depraved soul—our flesh, which leads to destruction. The tall order of God’s Love is revealed in 1 John. Faith cannot exist apart from abiding in God’s love. We cannot love like Jesus until we’ve been loved by Jesus. Our heart is the believer, our soul is the processor.  Scripture Readings: Tier One – NT: Acts 19-25, 2 Peter 3, 1 John 1-5, 2 John, 3 John, Jude Tier Two – OT: 1 Samuel 27-31, 2 Samuel 1-3, Psalms 149-150, Proverbs 1-4, Hosea 3-8Jubilee Southern California   Website: http://jubileechurch.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jubileechurchca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jubileechurchcaX: https://www.x.com/jubileechurchca/To Give text "Give" to (747) 233-4107 or visit https://www.jubileechurch.org/giveSteve Dittmar’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Dittmar/e/B00JAB8UMU School of Jubilee:youtube.com/schoolofjubileeJubilee Company Worship:http://jubileechurch.org/jcw