The Spirit and The Word With Shawn Hiltibidal

FROM THE ARCHIVES-ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 17TH, 2023 Love, Light, Truth, The Word, Jesus, God....all synonymous terms that CANNOT be divorced from one another.  Jesus is The Word. Jesus Is The Truth.  Jesus Is the Light.  God is Light. God Is Love and since Jesus is God...that means Jesus Is Love.  It's not a just an old song by Lionel Richie and The Commodores!  It is Biblical fact and truth!  He is the True Light.  Light is a person.  Love is also a person, but both light and love are the same person and that is Jesus!

FROM THE ARCHIVES-ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 16TH, 2023 If any one person knew what love is it is Jesus!  He was God's love manifested to the human race.  As I have been saying, love cannot be divorced from God's Word which is truth.  Jesus is God's Word made flesh. Jesus is The Truth.  The world says love is love, but what does truth say?  Jesus so very clearly taught us what his definition of love is, there can be no question about it!  Today I am going to teach from the book of John and answer the question: What Did Jesus Say That Love Is?

FROM THE ARCHIVES-ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 15TH, 2023 Love cannot be divorced from God's Word.  In John 17, Jesus said that God's Word is Truth.  God's Word is not just "a" truth.  It is "THE TRUTH".  It is impossible to define what love is apart from God's Word.   It is the standard by which we measure everything else.   If God and His Word are one, and they are.  And if Jesus is God's Word made flesh, and He is.  And if Jesus is The Truth, and he is. That means we must take any ideology, teaching, saying or belief about love and measure it by God's Word.  If Truth (Jesus) isn't in it...It's Not Love.

FROM THE ARCHIVES-ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 14TH, 2023 In the last episode we learned that the phrase Love Is Love is a lie. The people who use this phrase use it to excuse the sin of same sex relationships.  They believe that same sex is acceptable because....after all... love is love! This is absolutely NOT Biblical!  The Bible clearly defines the truth concerning love.  Today I am going to read what Paul wrote in 1st Corinthians 13 about "selfless, unconditional love", which in Greek is AGAPE.   This chapter is just one among many in The Bible that show us as Christians what God's definition of love is.

FROM THE ARCHIVES-ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 13TH, 2023 What is love?  According to the liberal left and the LGBTQ community, Love Is Love.  But is that true?  According to the Bible that statement is false...it is a lie!  Love is NOT Love!  The Bible says that God Is Love. The Bible also says that God is Holy.   If the love isn't holy...then it is not God's Love and the love that is God.   For the next two weeks I am going to be teaching about love. The Bible clearly defines what love is...in fact...it is what the whole Bible is all about! 

We have reached the end of the series "God's Divine Order".  I have a few more things to share with you today.  If you have not listened to parts 1-4 of this series, please do so before you listen to this one.  As always, there are things I will say today that many may find controversial.  But we must uphold the Word of God above all things.  God bless you and have a great weekend!

This week's series was published last year, 2022, during pride month.  Many make the claim today that Jesus never spoke about same sex relationships.  The ones who make that claim don't know God or know His Word.  The Bible is a heterosexual book.  It is written from the foundation that God created male and female.  There is not one single same sex story in the Bible period!  Adam and Eve. David and Bathsheba.  Moses had a wife.  Abraham and Sarah.  Job had a wife.  The Old Testament is full of men loving women.   No prophet had a same sex partner!  The New Testament begins with Joseph and Mary and Zachariah and Elizabeth.  Male and female.  Peter had a wife.  Paul wrote much about husbands and wives.  Jesus himself is coming to take his BRIDE! Not his partner!  There are laws of morality that are clearly shown to us throughout the whole Bible.  As Christians you and I are not redeemed from the moral laws of God!  The same moral laws that applied in the Old Testament also apply in the New Testament.  God was Holy then, and He is Holy now!  He never changes!   We are going to talk about what God expects from us even still today!

This week's series is from June 2022.  It is a continuation of the 5 part series I did last week on the subject of PRIDE.    There is so much false teaching today that it literally troubles me most of the time.  I must expose things that are quite simply just insane!  God has an order! That order demands that as Christians there are certain things that He expects of us that he doesn't demand of sinners.  We are called out of darkness and into the light.  That is my number one goal in teaching is to expose darkness and things that are absolutely not of God.  We continue today to talk about some of these things that we Christians need to be aware of that God is against and how we are to walk in righteousness.

This week's series is from June 2022.  It is a continuation of the 5 part series I did last week on the subject of PRIDE.    We live in a society today that is in complete disorder.  Lawlessness abounds.  The rule of law does not exist anymore.  Our government has been weaponized to a level that we have never seen.  This is not a surprise to Christians who know the Bible.   We knew these days would come and evil would grow worse and worse.  The fact that our world is in complete disorder right now does not change the fact that God is a God of order.  He is not the author of confusion.  The Bible clearly defines what God expects. Some don't like it, but God has rules! There are things that he expects of those who claim to know him.  All this week I am going to teach about God's Divine Order.  We continue today with part 2.

This week's series is from June 2022.  It is a continuation of the 5 part series I did last week on the subject of PRIDE.    We live in a society today that is in complete disorder.  Lawlessness abounds.  The rule of law does not exist anymore.  Our government has been weaponized to a level that we have never seen.  This is not a surprise to Christians who know the Bible.   We knew these days would come and evil would grow worse and worse.  The fact that our world is in complete disorder right now does not change the fact that God is a God of order.  He is not the author of confusion.  The Bible clearly defines what God expects. Some don't like it, but God has rules! There are things that he expects of those who claim to know him.  All this week I am going to teach about God's Divine Order. 

All this week we have been talking about the sin of pride.  Today's episode is the conclusion of the series. If you have been listening all this week, I want to express my gratitude and say thanks for listening. 

This is the 4th episode of my 5 part series concerning what the Bible says about pride.  As I have been saying all this week, even if God accepted anything that the LGBTQ community represents; even if the Bible did not clearly say that same sex relationships are sinful behaviour; the fact remains that their whole thought process is rooted in pride and pride is absolutely sin and something that God hates.   Gay pride. Pride month. Celebrate pride, etc.  The very fact that the LGBTQ is rooted in pride proves that God does not approve of it whatsoever!  We have also been talking about pride in the life of King Nebuchadnezzar.  Today I will continue reading from Daniel and also read from Isaiah 14 which many Christians believe is speaking to the devil that they inappropriately call "Lucifer",  but the text clearly shows us that this chapter is an indictment against the King of Babylon. 

In today's episode I continue our study about pride.  I am still teaching from the book of Daniel.  In the last episode we learned that the Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, was a very arrogant man.  He was so arrogant in fact, that he made a statue of himself that was 90 feet tall and 9 feet wide.  If that wasn't enough he command all people to fall down and worship it!  This story is a type that foreshadows the Anti-Christ.  You know the rest of the story. There were three Hebrew boys that defied the King and said...we will not bow!  Some might perceive this as an act of pride but in reality it was an act of complete humility.  They refused to bow to anything but the God of Israel and as a result God had their backs! 

This week I am republishing a series that I did in the month of June 2022 concerning the subject of pride.  God hates pride.  Pride is not a characteristic of a true child of God.  Today we are going to read from the book of Daniel and talk about two men who had a pride problem.  King Nebuchadnezzar and King Belshazzar.  These men were both judged by God for their pride. 

This is the episode 1 of a 5 part series on the subject of PRIDE that I am republishing from last year.  As this is June, the month that has been designated as PRIDE month, I must expose the root behind the LGBTQ movement.  Sadly sin has entered the church and many so called progressive Christians are expressing their support for the LGBTQ community.  The Bible is extremely clear about same sex relationships in both the Old and New Testament.  Even if the Bible said nothing about it, the Bible has much to say about the sin of pride.  God hates pride and the whole LGBTQ movement is rooted in pride.  This week we are going on a journey through the Bible and by episode 5 there will be no stone unturned and no question unanswered concerning whether or not God approves or supports PRIDE month. 

In this episode I share a message that I taught in July 2011.  I believe that one thing that is not being taught today in a lot of churches is the Biblical concept of learning to be content.  Life is not about the acquisition of material things!   Many preachers and teachers today even say that God wants to make you rich beyond your wildest dreams!  While I believe that God absolutely blesses his children, and he wants us to "have all sufficiency in all things", many have erred from the faith through the love of money.  The Bible warns us against covetousness over and over again.  I have to be honest I don't hear a lot of preachers and teachers addressing what I am sharing here.  I pray you will take this message to heart today.

From The Archives-May 2019 "The Secret of Contentment"   This is a teaching I did in 2019 about the subject of prosperity. I personally believe a lot of teaching today is completely out of balance when it comes to money. The bible admonishes us not to fall into the trap of loving money. This is a much needed truth today, especially in the Charismatic/Pentecostal circle.

This is Part 5 of my teaching from 2019 during Passover. In this teaching I talk about the benefits of the blood of Jesus. At the end we will take communion together.

FROM THE ARCHIVES-April 15th, 2019 Passover Part 4   This is from Holy Week in 2019. At that time I was regularly doing Facebook live webcasts. I taught on the topic of the Jewish Passover.   I will be sharing these videos this week since this is Passover 2024. This is God's Holy Week. Biblically, Resurrection Sunday would be this coming Sunday...not the one that was just celebrated.   I apologize that the quality of the video is really good. This is one of the reasons I quit doing videos live back then. I believe the content of the teaching is worth dealing with poor video.

I cover a lot of topics in this 2 hour video.  The recent event with that happened in Missouri at The Stronger Men's Conference should never have happened.  While I fully support what Pastor Mark Driscoll said about the Jezebel spirit, I also believe the timing of what he said was misplaced.  I absolutely do not agree as a fellow brother in the Lord that the way it was handled by Pastor John Lindell was Biblically correct.   The real issue of the whole thing is that churches have become places of entertainment more than houses of God.   Some things need to change!  I might need to put a disclaimer that this video is not for the spiritually faint.  These are serious subjects and must be dealt with seriously.