OUT OF THIS WORLD An extensive and revelatory look into the spirit world, that mysterious dimension of eternal

realities, the living world of Forever rather than the dying world of Now--the everlasting realm of Eternity rather than the temporary space of Time--that fascinating dimension which is largely unseen by us in mortal flesh rather than this mundane plane which is so temporary. "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth ... for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." (Colossians 3:2; 2Corinthians 4:18) (Throughout this text you will find many references in parentheses. These are Scripture References to show you the Book, Chapter and Verse where the preceding quotation may be found in the Bible.) EVERYTHING IS GOING ON IN THE SPIRIT WORLD. What's happening on the surface is nothing but a little physical manifestation of the real action. Where the real action is in the spirit world and it is in full control. We don't have to worry. Everything is under control. THE THINGS AND POWER AND CONFLICTS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD--THE REAL WORLD WHERE WORLD DESTINIES ARE BEING DECIDED by the struggles of the spirits and archangels--this is what is really important! Our daily lives and the world's future are being influenced by the battles in the spirit world between the Lord and His angels on the one hand, and the Devil and his angels on the other. AND ALTHOUGH I COULD HARDLY BEGIN TO FULLY DESCRIBE THE SPIRITUAL REALM OF THE NOW MUCH LESS THE FUTURE, IT MAY BE THAT THE LORD WILL PERMIT ME TO TELL YOU OF THE THINGS HE HAS SHOWN ME to try to help you understand more about this great and mysterious subject! For He has begun to help me put the pieces together of this great puzzle, His conduct of affairs in the spirit world, due to my personal experiences in this realm which have aroused my interest and shed new light on the subject--some of which I will now try to share with you. IN YEARS GONE BY I FOUND THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OF THE SUBJECT because they felt it bordered on spiritualism or spiritism, and that talking about the personal appearances of angels or of saints long dead sounded to them too much like having to do with familiar spirits, dealing with evil spirits and devils, which God's Word condemns, along with witchcraft and wizardry. But may God forgive us for condemning the entire spirit world and being afraid of knowledge of it, just because the Devil uses it, along with his demons. That would be like some narrow-minded persons which refuse to use music just because the Devil uses it! If we stopped using everything the Devil uses, there wouldn't be much left--not even for God! TRUE--WITCHCRAFT, WIZARDRY, AND DEALING WITH EVIL FAMILIAR SPIRITS, DEMONS AND DEVILS ARE CONDEMNED by God; but this does not mean that we are supposed to blind ourselves, ignore, and shut ourselves off completely in ignorance to God's Own marvelous spiritual world in which He Himself dwells with His Son Jesus, His Holy Spirit, all His ministering spirits, the angels--2/3 of the spirit world (Revelation 12:4)--and all the millions of the spirits of the departed saints! We shouldnt be left in darkness regarding the wonderful world of His spirit--the only real world there is-the eternal, everlasting world--the Spirit Realm--the Heavenly Plane--the fifth Dimension--that thrilling and exciting and marvelous world of the spirit! Unseen that is, usually, by the natural eyes of man. A lot of people, scientists included, are speaking of ESP--extra sensory perception--telepathic communication, deja vu, etc., and are saying that it is entirely possible, as Einstein was trying to prove, that there is another dimension--another world--which could be quite scientifically co-existent with this one, and even all around us! IN SEARCH OF THE FIFTH DIMENSION & THE INHABITANTS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD --Almighty God--

THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT "GOD IS A SPIRIT: And they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." (John 4:24) It also speaks of Him as "the Father of spirits" in Hebrew 12:9, and "the God of the spirits" in Numbers 16:22 and 27:16. So He is a spiritual God Who dwells and operates in the spiritual realm, and from there conducts His behind-the-scene labors which are almost totally invisible: The work of creation that produced the universe and keeps it running, His design and plan for man and His constant care for His creations. God is the Basic Power and Guiding Light of the Universe which has brought men into being, and, as man's benevolent fatherly Creator, has some kind and benign purpose in store for him, a final fulfillment of his undeniably human aspirations for love, life, liberty and happiness! HIS VISIBLE CREATION IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE THINGS IN THE SPIRIT of that which is invisible. "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead." (Romans 1:20) Everything God created, everything God ever made, all the visible creation, is in some way, an illustration of something spiritual. And what did God create to illustrate and show what He Himself is like? What creation gives us the best picture of what God is like? IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE WE ARE TOLD THAT "GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HE HIM." (Genesis 1:27) In other words, God made us very much like Himself in many ways, in His image and His likeness. We are like God!--We have the majesty of choice, we can do good or evil, and we are similar to God in our thinking and in our emotions and in our personalities. HE SAYS IN OTHER PLACE, "YE ARE GODS"--"ARE YE NOT GODS?" (John 10:34,35 and Psalm 82:6) We indeed are like gods. Man was created to be like God Himself, like the gods of the spirit world, yet in a body of flesh bound with the earth and earthen things, "and of the earth, earthy." (1Corinthians 15:47) BUT MAN HAS NOT QUITE AS MUCH FREEDOM BY ANY MEANS AS THE SPIRITS, the spirit gods of the spirit world, who are much greater in power, mightier in influence and have more ability to either do good or to do evil. Man is confined to this world and to a certain environment and to certain limitations, physical weaknesses and restrictions, so that though he were a god in spirit, in a sense, he being put to the test of choice, cannot do too much damage in a fleshly body. GOD IS INTERESTED IN OUR DECISIONS. He's concerned to see that if we are given the great majesty of choice we will make the right choices. Of course He is sad to see when we make the wrong choices. This is why He put us here and this is what we're here to learn: How to make the right decisions. So He has had to give us the opportunity to have our own way and choice to see what we will do. --The Son King-THE BIBLE NOT ONLY TELLS US THAT "GOD IS A SPIRIT," BUT ALSO THAT "GOD IS LOVE!" (1John 4:8) So God is the Spirit of Love, the Great Spirit, the Creator. What is God like? He's Love! And what did God do to prove that He is Love, that He loves us?--"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) God gave "His only begotten Son," Jesus, was separated from Him and let Him suffer a cruel, horrible death for us, for our sakes. "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him." (1John 4:9) Jesus is the manifestation of the Love of God. "OH, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE JESUS OUT OF IT?" some people ask. "Why do you have to use that Name? Why does He always have to be the symbol? Why can't you just say God, and speak of God only? Then we could accept it much easier, if you would not insist on using that Name of Jesus!" "WELL," I USUALLY REPLY, "WHY NOT?" If He really was God's Son, and God had chosen Jesus to reveal Himself to the world, and to show His love, then God Himself has insisted on it!--"Love Me, Love My Son." These are God's conditions, not ours. "Whosoever denies the Son, the same hath not the Father: But he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also." (1John 2:23) God has insisted that we recognize and love His Son, and

Jesus Himself said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me!" (John 14:6) JESUS MADE THE WAY. HE IS THE WAY! "Neither is there salvation in any other: For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved!" (Acts 4:12)--There is only "one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus!" (1Timothy 2:5) And, "no man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him." (John 1:18) No man can approach God directly! We have to go through Jesus, Who said, "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE." (John 10:30) SEE, PRIOR TO HIS INCARNATION HERE ON EARTH, HE AND THE FATHER WERE TOGETHER IN PERSONAL HEAVENLY FELLOWSHIP, which He had to forsake while He was down here with us. Shortly before His crucifixion Jesus prayed, "And now, O Father, glorify Me with Your Own self with the glory which I had with You before the world was." (John 17:5) We're also told that "In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:1,14) JESUS ACTUALLY RENOUNCED THE RIGHTS OF HIS CITIZENSHIP IN HEAVEN, AND "THOUGH HE WAS RICH, YET FOR YOUR SAKES HE BECAME POOR THAT YE THROUGH HIS POVERTY MIGHT BE RICH!" (2Corinthians 8:9) He adapted Himself to our bodily form and conformed to our human ways of life that he might understand and love us better, and communicate with us on the lowly level of our own human understanding! In a sense He became a citizen of this world, a member of humanity, a man of flesh, in all points like as we are, in order that He might reach us with His love, prove to us His concern, and help us understand His message of love! HE CAME DOWN HERE TO OUR LEVEL TO TAKE US WITH HIM BACK UP TO HIS! He didn't leave the Halls of Heaven to come and stay down here forever! Nor is he still asleep in the grave!--HE IS RISEN!-And is now "set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the Heavens" (Hebrews 8:1)--the Throne of the Father--God's Broadcasting Centre--His Central Studio and principal Communication Centre, from where He personally directs operations through the power and communication of His Holy Spirit . --Holy Ghosts-BESIDES GOD THE FATHER, THE CREATOR AND LORD OF THE UNIVERSE, AND HIS SON JESUS, THE KING OF KINGS, THERE ARE MANY OTHER GOOD SPIRITS, including the Holy Spirit, the seven Spirits of God of Revelation 4:5, the Seven Stars or Angels or Spirits of the Seven Churches of Revelation 1:20, the Four Spirits of the Heavens of Zechariah 6:5, and the multitudes of other celestial messengers, angels or spirits of God mentioned in the Bible, which are obviously all good spirits. Speaking of His Heavenly Hosts, His Word asks us: "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" (Hebrews 1:14) INDEED THEY ARE!--AND TO DENY THAT THEY ARE GOOD SPIRITS IS TO DENY ALL THE ANGELS AND SPIRITS OF GOD INCLUDING THE HOLY SPIRIT, as well as all the spirits of the dear departed saints of God, including those who appeared or spoke to men of God throughout the Bible, like the souls under the altar in Heaven in Revelation 6:9-11, and even your own personal spirit, saved by the grace of God which shall join a Heavenful of millions of the saved spirits of all the saints of God when you die or go to be with Jesus when He comes! THESE ARE THEY OF WHOM PAUL SPEAKS IN HEBREWS 12:1 AS A GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES which compass us about--here and now! "Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses!" Paul saw them! He knew they were there! Thanks be unto God for all the good spirits of God and His saints! THANK THE LORD FOR THE MANY COUNSELLORS AND THE MULTITUDES HE HAS GIVEN US at our disposal and our command. Ask God to open your eyes as He did the Young Man to see the multitudes of His Hosts!--"And Elisha prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the

eyes of the young man; and he saw: And, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." (2Kings 6:17) "THE ANGEL OF THE LORD ENCAMPS ROUND ABOUT THEM THAT FEAR HIM, and delivers them." "For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all thy ways. They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone." "The Lord ... Who makes His angels spirits; His ministers a flaming fire ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation." (Psalm 34:7; 91:11,12; 104:4; Hebrews 1:14) PRAISE GOD FOR HIS GOOD SPIRITS--ALL OF THEM!--including yours and mine!--And I'm personally acquainted with quite a few others who have spoken to me and through me in many spiritual experiences. In these experiences God has sent different "ministering spirits" to us personally to reveal His mysteries to us in the spirit, by the spirit, through the Spirit, of the Spirit and for the Spirit! SO I KNOW FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THAT SOME OF THE REVELATIONS DO COME IN THIS FASHION.--And why not? They did in the Bible where angelic messengers were sent to convey a message to some prophet of God, or a man or woman of God. Time and again when the prophets revealed something, they said the angel of the Lord or someone else was there showing them. Occasionally, even the angel or spirit of some former man of God, such as Samuel, Moses, Elijah, etc., was used. IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION FOR EXAMPLE, when the Apostle John was so astonished by the great glad tidings and mysteries of God that a "ministering spirit" was showing him, he wrote, "And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things. Then said he unto me, See that you do it not: For I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book: Worship God. (Revelation 22:8,9) This "angel" here was a man, a departed prophet in a supernatural spiritual body. A COUPLE OF DEPARTED SAINTS EVEN APPEARED AND MINISTERED TO JESUS, GOD'S OWN SON! We're told that, shortly before His crucifixion, "Jesus went up into a mountain to pray. And as He prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, and behold, there talked with Him two men which were Moses and Elijah: Who appeared in glory, and spoke of His decease." (Luke 9:28-31) These two former prophets, Moses and Elijah had departed from this life many centuries previous to the day Jesus was praying on the mount, yet God sent them to counsel and confer with His Son! SO GOD CAN USE HIS SERVANTS WHO HAVE ALREADY PASSED ON FROM THIS LIFE! THESE SPIRITS ARE ON ASSIGNMENT. They don't just drift around in space with no place to go, nothing to do, and not knowing what their specific duties are. They're all busy! There're a lot of places where they're working, not only in this world but in the world of the spirit. THE HOLY SPIRIT USES THESE HOLY SPIRITS, His angels and these spirit beings, these departed saintly spirits, to lead and guide God's yielded children. In fact, one or more of them are assigned to each of us who receive the anointing or empowerment of the Baptism of the Spirit. Along with the Spirit of God we receive specific spirits who have specific gifts, hence, the "gifts of the Spirit." (1Corinthians 12) IN OTHER WORDS, GOD USES THESE SPIRITS AS HIS AGENTS in imparting not only messages and specific powers for specific occasions, but also the particular gifts that each of us are given by the Holy Spirit. THIS MAKES IT SO SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW A PERSON RECEIVES A GIFT OF TONGUES, for example (an unlearned language). God lets another language, the native tongue of that particular individual guiding spirit, the particular spirit that God uses who is assigned to you personally. This is what Paul means when he wrote, "I speak with the tongues of men and of angels!" (1Corinthians 13:1) SO GOD HIMSELF AND ALL THESE OTHER DWELL AND OPERATE IN THE GLORIOUS UNIVERSE OF GOOD SPIRITS to which His Word welcomes and introduces His born again children: "Ye are come unto the City of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem (space City), and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,

and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant." (Hebrews 12:2-24) Hallelujah! --Satan, The Fallen Archangel-SO FAR, WE HAVE DEALT PRIMARILY WITH THE WONDERFUL REALM OF GOD AND HIS HEAVENLY FORCES, BUT THERE IS ALSO A DARK SIDE OF THE PICTURE, SAD TO SAY, which I don't care to talk too much about, because I think it tends to glorify the Enemy too much, giving him too much credit. However, God's Word does tell us not to be ignorant of the Devil's devices. (2Corinthians 2:11) AND IT DOESN'T PAY TO TRY AND SAY THAT THERE'S NO DEVIL or no demons or no such thing as evil, and just try to ignore the facts! Especially when God's Book, the Bible, warns us explicitly of such spiritual forces and tells us exactly how to overcome them. THESE WICKED SPIRITUAL POWERS ARE LED BY A FALLEN ARCHANGEL, SATAN, whom the Bible calls "the prince of the devils" (Matthew 12:24) and "the god of this world." (2Corinthians 4:4) Speaking of him Jesus said, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven." (Luke 10;18) And the Book of Jude speaks of his forces as "the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation." (Jude 6) BEFORE BECOMING THE DEVIL, SATAN HAD BEEN LUCIFER, the Light-Bearer, the mightiest of all archangels, next to God Himself--he ruled the universe, second only unto God, the very Bearer of the Light! But he wasn't to be the Light. So because he wanted it all and wasn't even willing to share a little, he lost it all! HE WANTED TO BE GOD! He did not have to fall--he chose to, because of his lust for power! In the account of his downfall, God's Word says, "How art thou fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in your heart, I will ascend into Heaven, I will ascend above the stars of God. ... I will be like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down to Hell, to the sides of the pit." (Isaiah 14:12-15) UNLIKE GOD OR CHRIST OR THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE DEVIL IS NOT OMNIPRESENT, HE'S LIMITED! He's limited in his scope of operation, because he is only one of God's creations and limited to one personality in one place at any one given time. Therefore, he has to carry on most of his business through his demons, other evil angels--and through these, the various satanic princes of this world--through these devils he manages to rule a good deal. This is why the Bible calls him "the god of this world." (2Corinthians 4:4) (See also Luke 4:5-7.) WAR IN THE SPIRIT! IF YOU COULD SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON BEHIND THE VEIL OF THE FIFTH DIMENSION, YOU WOULD WITNESS AN ALL OUT WAR OF THE WORLDS!--A war between good and evil, God and the Devil, goodness and wickedness, flesh and spirit, angels and devils, love and hate, life and death, joy and misery, a war of the universe between the good spirits of Heaven and the evil spirits of Hell, contending for our souls as well as our bodies! THIS IS WHERE THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLES AND CATACLYSMIC CHANGES OCCUR, behind the scenes in the spirit world. As the Apostle Paul said, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Ephesians 6:12) IN FACT, I'M PERSONALLY CONVINCED THAT MANY OF THE ANCIENT MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS, EVENTS AND RELIGIONS HAD SOME ORIGINAL BASIS IN ACTUAL FACTS, spiritual personalities and past battles, struggles and occurrences in the spirit world, between good spirits and evil spirits, the angels of God and the demons of Satan! IN THE PROCESS OF TIME AND THROUGH LACK OF SPECIFIC RECORDING OR THE LOSS OF WRITTEN RECORDS, SOME OF THESE ACCOUNTS BECAME CONSIDERABLY CONTORTED, distorted

and embellished by word of mouth into some of the odd tales which we have in mythology today, which have been handed down to us from thousands of years ago. WE ARE TOLD IN THE BIBLE THAT THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL WRESTED AGAINST A DEMON "PRINCE OF PERSIA" FOR 21 DAYS before he finally broke through to answer the Prophet Daniel's prayer with an important prophetic message. (See Daniel 10:11-13,20.) So why could not the gods and goddesses of mythology have been real spirits of ancient times, with their exploits preserved, though somewhat distorted and exaggerated, in the annals of the epics of the Greek and Roman legendary classics! I am convinced that they had a basis in fact in the history of the spirit world! HEAVENLY COUNCIL AND COURT SESSIONS It is far beyond our comprehension to fully understand how God runs the spiritual government of the universe by means of the Holy Ghost and His angels, "ministering spirits," as His Word calls them . BUT WE DO KNOW THAT HE CONDUCTS SOME KIND OF COUNCILS IN HEAVEN, report sessions, according to Job 1:6 and other related passages--Court Sessions--in which Jesus Himself is a called a Counselor (Isaiah 9:6), and Satan, "the Accuser of the Saints." (Revolution 12:10) GOD AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, THE KING OF KINGS CONDUCT COURT SESSIONS, in which apparently He hears cases and representations, witnesses, for both the Prosecution and the Defense, and makes Judgements accordingly, current Court Sessions in which He judges the living, now, like He did Job and others, like the kings and judges of this world, types and shadows of the True. IN THESE SESSIONS, GOD IS THE JUDGE, JESUS IS THE DEFENSE LAWYER AND THE DEVIL IS THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY who constantly reminds the Judge of the law. In fact, the Devil is the most legalistic creature in the Universe! Anybody that breaks the law, he wants God to crack down on them and punish them on the spot! The Devil is all for justice and the law!--Like the System, he provokes them to do evil, then jails them for doing it!--It's amazing! (See Revelation 12:10; Zechariah 3:1; Job 1:9-12.) BUT IT'S GOD WHO EVEN MADE THE LAWS AND THE RULES, WHO WANTS YOU TO RECEIVE MERCY AND FORGIVENESS AND SALVATION!--And this is why He sent Jesus, so that Jesus could be a man and know how men feel. He could be human and know how it is to be human, and therefore could understand us better and have more mercy on us and therefore could be our Intercessor and Mediator with God Himself. (1Timothy 2:5) SO IF JESUS IS IN OUR HEART, HE'S ON OUR SIDE, He's our Intercessor, He's our High Priest. (Hebrews 1-5) The Bible goes on and on about this. Jesus is our Defense Lawyer, He is our Advocate, our Intercessor, our Mediator. He defends us, He intercedes for us and He begs God for mercy. HE SITS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER, PLEADING OUR CAUSE WITH SYMPATHY, EMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING, Himself having taken on the form of our own human flesh, that He might know and understand us and our problems better, having suffered with us as one of us. "As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust" (Psalm 103:13,14), having worn that frame Himself, suffering in it, dying in it and now living in it again for all Eternity for our sakes! WE ALSO KNOW THAT GOD CALLS IN HIS CHIEF COUNSELLORS AND SPIRITS AND ANGELS AND ASKS THEM THEIR OPINION AND COUNSEL ON DIFFERENT SITUATIONS. He listens to their different plans and suggestions, and then He has the Godly wisdom to know who is right and to make the right choice! You can read it in Genesis 1:26; 1Kings 22:19-22; Job 1:6-12, etc.! SPIRITUAL POWERS AND COMMUNICATIONS DEMONS ARE VERY COMMON TODAY, as in all ages, and many people are plagued by them, if not actually possessed; and whether possessed, obsessed, or merely oppressed by them, they need complete deliverance,

and they can have it, because demons are totally subject unto us, and must do whatever we say in the Name of Jesus. (See Luke 10:19.) Many doctors and psychiatrists will usually dismiss it as a mental disorder, an insanity, schizophrenia, they often call it, the most common mental disease in the world which occupies more beds in more mental hospitals than any other kind of mental disease--"schizo" meaning "split" or divided personality--they're two different personalities living in the same body. IT IS THE MOST COMMON MENTAL AILMENT IN THE WORLD TODAY, AND IT COULD BE NOTHING BUT PLAIN OLD DEMON-POSSESSION, another spiritual personality living in that body!-Sometimes a number of personalities! The doctors say, "Well, his personality (for which God uses a very simple word--spirit) has split into two personalities." No! Human spirits don't normally split into two personalities: THE DIFFERENCE GODS AND THE DEVILS POWER IS THAT GOD'S POWER IS CREATIVE AND LOVING, BUT THE DEVIL'S POWER IS DESTRUCTIVE AND HATEFUL. What is the Devil usually doing with his wizardry and his black magic? And what do they call that stuff with the zombies in the islands-voodoo! What is most of it used for? Curses!--for curses for people who hate people and who want to curse them. BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO FEAR, BECAUSE WE HAVE A GREATER POWER THAT PROTECTS US. Even if they get a dolly of you and go to this devil-man for the pins and he sticks the pins into your dolly, nothing's going to hurt you at all because God is there protecting you and the Devil can't touch you. THE POWER OF THE LORD, OF COURSE, IS SO MUCH GREATER! HIS WORD TELLS HIS CHILDREN: "GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD," (1John 4:4) In other words God is saying, "My power in you is much greater than the Devil's power in the world's children, his children.--Much greater!" Their power is so puny compared to ours and is so weak and ridiculous compared to the power of God that they're like little kids playing with matches while we've got lightning bolts! GOD'S POWER IS LIKE LIGHT WHICH PENETRATES AND DESTROYS THE ENEMY'S DARKNESS! But it's impossible for the darkness to penetrate the Light, no matter how hard it tries! It can't put out the Light, because it's afraid of the Light! It can't even get close to it, because the light destroys it! For "God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all." (1John 1:5) SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT OR FEAR SATAN'S PUNY POWER because we are protected by the power of the Holy Spirit, which is far greater than the power of the Enemy. If we have the power of the Lord, if we have Christ and the Holy Spirit, we are overshadowed, we are enveloped. THE LORD'S PROTECTION IS JUST LIKE A FORCE FIELD AROUND US AND THE ENEMY CANNOT PENETRATE IT! It's impossible for him to penetrate it unless the Lord allows him to do it as a spanking, as a chastening, as a reaping of something you have done that you haven't confessed or you're not sorry for. Then the Lord allows you to reap the results. BUT THE DEVIL CAN'T DO A DAMN THING, A REAL DAMN THING, WITHOUT GOD'S PERMISSION, without authorization from the Lord.--He can't touch you! He can't let one of his demons touch you, he can't do a thing, nothing, as long as you have the Lord's power and are in His will. IT'S AMAZING THE POWER THE LORD GIVES US! Almost the Devil's total power is in fear. But the moment the Lord's children are tempted to fear, we immediately think of God and the fears vanish!--Anything that is not of the Lord just vanishes! "FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR; BUT OF POWER, AND OF LOVE, AND OF A SOUND MIND!" (2Timothy 1:7) "For perfect love casts out all fear!" (1John 4:18)--And "God shall keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him because he trusteth in Him!" (Isaiah 26:3) Praise God forever! God is bigger than any devil! SO "FEAR THOU NOT" HE TELLS US, "I AM WITH THEE! Be not afraid; for I am thy God! I will

strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness!" (Isaiah 41:10) We don't need to fear the Devil or any and all of his angels!--JESUS is with us! "Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you!" (James 4:7) DEATH THERE COMES A TIME FOR EVERYONE TO PASS FROM THE FLESH TO THE SPIRIT WORLD-DEATH. It's really very simple: Leaving this life is just like going from one room into another and closing the door. Everybody does it when they die! INSTANTLY, THE MINUTE GOD'S CHILDREN DIE, WE'RE INSTANTLY FREED SPIRITUALLY, liberated from the flesh into the world of the spirit. So this is why Paul said and flaunted in the face of death, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" (1Corinthians 15:55) In other words, we have to die to pay the penalty, but Jesus took the sting out of it. JESUS SAID, "THOU SHALT NOT TASTE OF DEATH." (Matthew 16:28) He's talking about spiritually there, because we all die.--"It is appointed unto men once to die." (Hebrews 9:27) But we'll never really die in that sense of spiritual death, or taste the agony of death and separation from God, thanks to Jesus' sacrifice and atonement. The Scripture says that THIS IS WHY JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD: "THAT HE BY THE GRACE OF GOD SHOULD TASTE DEATH FOR EVERY MAN ... that through (His) death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." (Hebrews 2:9,14,15) "I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE," Jesus said, "he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die!" (John 11:25,26) He's the only One Who can deliver us out of the jaws of death so we pass through it without sting--through the grave with victory for us, not the grave! SO FOR THOSE THAT KNOW THE LORD, DYING IS THE EASIEST THING IN THE WORLD! Because you know where you're going. I'VE ALMOST DIED ONE TIME. And I have read and seen many accounts of people that died and came back to tell us of their experiences. It's a wonderful feeling, it's great! I mean you're lighter than a feather, you feel like you're floating on air when you're rid of this body. It's similar, I presume, to what the astronauts feel in their weightlessness. Right now we're burdened by our body. But in the spirit you don't have this weight! You're no longer weighed down with the flesh and burdened with the problems of this physical life. You've graduated from this grade of this earthly life! CONCLUSION MOST PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THAT GOD'S SPIRITUAL KINGDOM IS SOME FANCY PLACE SOMEWHERE IN OUTER SPACE CALLED HEAVEN, only to be reached when you die, if you've been good enough while on Earth! But Jesus Himself proved this to be a misconception when He said, "The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! For, behold, the Kingdom of God is within you!" (Luke 17:20,21) WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT TILL WE DIE TO ENTER IT! In fact, it has already entered you if you have Jesus and are filled with His Holy Spirit--and right now you can experience all of its exciting sights, sounds, visions, voices, and even resultant physical thrills--and many other ecstatic joys of the spirit world--world of His Spirit, where God Himself dwells! TO ENTER HIS SPIRITUAL KINGDOM IS SO SIMPLE TO DO THAT JESUS HIMSELF SAID THAT YOU MUST FIRST BECOME AS A LITTLE CHILD: "Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become

as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!" (Matthew 18:3) He even said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." (John 3:3) WHAT JESUS MEANT BY THIS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE, WAS THAT WE CANNOT SAVE OURSELVES by our own works, our own goodness, our own attempts to keep His laws and to love Him, or even our own endeavors to find and follow His truth. He was saying that salvation is a gift of God performed by a miraculous transformation of our lives when we accept His truth in the love of His Son Jesus by the work of God's Spirit. "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saves us." (Titus 3:5) All we have to do is receive Him. "As many as received Him (into their hearts), to them gave He power to become the sons (or children) of God." (John 1:12) "FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH: AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD!--Not of works, lest any man should boast!" (Ephesians 2:8,9) So you cannot save yourself no matter how good you try to be. You can't be good enough, you can't be perfect enough to earn merit or deserve the Heavenly perfection of His Own holy salvation by His Own grace, love and mercy! God loved us so much, He gave Jesus to die in our place, to take our punishment for us. "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord!" (Romans 6:23) JESUS SAID: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock: If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me." (Revelation 3:20) You can have Him and all He has to give, which is everything, right this minute, if you'll just sincerely pray and ask Him to come into your heart, forgive you your sins and give you His free gift of eternal life. YOU CAN BE BORN AGAIN INTO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF HIS SPIRIT WHERE EVERYTHING IS MUCH MORE REAL, MORE BEAUTIFUL, AND MORE LASTING THAN THE ONE WHICH YOU CAN NOW SEE WITH YOUR NATURAL EYES AT THIS VERY MOMENT! For "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him! But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit!" (1Corinthians 2:9,10) Praise the Lord! They're all for you, and you can personally experience their thrilling and ecstatic joys right now, and even take a trip into that world with Jesus' Holy Spirit as your Guide, like the prophets of old and our prophets of today, Praise God! Enjoy it! Experience it! "Be filled with the Spirit!" (Ephesians 5:18)--And then you're safe to make the trip, and get so high you'll never come down!