Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground! Genesis 4:9-10

Introduction.
This is an old age question. “Am I my brother’s keeper” Christianity is very tied to social relations and both its obligations and consequences. This question Father God asked of Cain because of he murdered his brother Abel. Able’s blood was crying out for justice. What Cain did not want to state that it was his greed and envy of Abel that made kill his brother. In theological terms this evil action came from within him and this is called our sinful nature.
Secular psychologists for the most part dismiss a person’s spiritual nature. Psycho-social construction of reality must and does concern itself with the construction of one’s reality through the connections of social relationships. This process must incorporate itself with the formation of self in society. Everyone in society participates in this process to some degree or another.
The reality of everyday life incorporated in what Cooley’s called “the Looking Glass Self”. This construction of one reality is the self-embracement of how one constructs their psycho-social self-image by what they feel is being judged by others.
Anthony Giddens is his book called, “The Consequences of Modernity” touches on this topic on how modernity has also pushed mankind to the brink of disintegration of self. But like most social scientists once again ignore man’s spiritual nature. Yes, we can look to the influencers on our lives but we must also understand that Father God is very much interested in us to bring about His truth to what is really happening.

Failure to Recognize Trauma
When trauma is not recognized, or validated by the family or community, to which one is part of, there is a response that there might be something wrong with him, and everybody else is sane. When trauma is experienced on an ongoing basis, this can’t convert into PTSD, and there are many symptoms of PTSD, which range from hyper villages or arousal, severe anxiety, agitation, irritability, depression, hostility, distrust, fear, poor impulse control, self-destructive behaviors, self-medication, nightmares, etc.
Discuss my PhD dissertation of the ‘Association of PTSD and Child Abuse in the El Salvadorean Population”.

Victim Blaming

Victim Blaming- Lays the responsibility for the offense committed against others on the rather than themselves.
• Need to assure them that they are not alone.
• Guard against “blaming the victim”.
• Need to take responsibility for their lifestyle and actions.

Collective Trauma
Trauma basically is a brokenness that has resulted for mankind due to our rebellion against God. It’s our story, both personal and collective, that has been buried in the shadows of our own consciousness, and it’s plays time it again in our lives. Trauma creates a hard shell over us separating us from ourselves and others. Trauma consists of broken moments that trigger and resurface time and again in the darkness of our subconscious. Trauma creates a void, and an emptiness that can only be healed through the power of God. We make attempts at healing but it is a long and painful process. As a psychologist I can tell you that human effort along is not sufficient.

Trauma as its basic conception, pushes one to become that which has been fractured. Many people have gone through the trauma of filed relationships. We fail to realize that these on-going trauma of failed relationships and rejection leave long and lasting deep scars on our personality which in Christian circles is called our soul. We grow up in a very self-centered and self-serving world. We carry that trauma into every area of our lives and it affects not only us but those who we have interconnectedness with.
Remember the Samaritan woman at the well who met Jesus and she wanted to discuss religion. Christ discussed with her worship. She began discussing the differences between her faith to divert attention from her own fractured self. Here’s a woman that usually should collect water at the well in the morning with other ladies but because her life was so chaotic, no one was there to associate with her. She had many broken relationships, many failed marriages. Even though her story isn’t complete scripturally, my years of experience of working with people that have fractured lives in multi-generational relationships that their unending story throughout their lives and the lives of others.

Trauma disrupts, and breaks down every spiritual, physical, emotional, and psychological form of communication and relationships that an individual has. I stated in the first teaching that trauma is never an individual act, but an act that involves many other people generational trauma, which we have named collective trauma that deals with multi-generational issues of rebellion and separation from God.

Response to Traumatic Events
Our mind is very powerful, and when trauma occurs, automatic signs begin to arise within us, and it may cause fear or aggression, resorting to flight or fight. Murder, rape, physical abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, psychological and emotional abuse.
Some people when they are experiencing trauma, and their instinct is to freeze. They freeze because they’re unable to gauge or measure or understand how to defend themselves against violence, and our own dysfunctional behavior.
• Acute stress experienced in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event.
• Anxiety, dissociate symptoms, and other manifestations that occur within one month after exposure to trauma.
• Symptoms include victim’s re-experiencing of the traumatic event, avoidance of stimuli associated with the event, numbing of general responsiveness, and increased agitation.
• Victims may suffer a wide variety of mental disorders.
• Depression
• Substance Abuse
• No clear bright line as to the types of mental disorders a victim may suffer.
• Certain events may re-trigger the recollection of the trauma
• Intensity and frequency generally diminish over time.
• Victims must learn to continue to function despite reactions.
• Victims frequently encounter social isolation and invalidation of their efforts to come to terms with their experiences.

Chronic Developmental Exposure to Trauma
• Attachment- intimate relationships suffer.
• Biology-trauma affects emotional regulation, cognitive functioning, and ability to learn from past experiences.
• Affect-can’t tolerate stress, hyperactivity, communication skills suffer.
• Dissociation- those who suffer on-going trauma can suffer from amnesia.
• Behavioral-hinders appropriate impulse control, aggression, disrupted sleep.
• Cognitive difficulty in concentration.
• Self-concept-fragmented though patterns, struggle with self-esteem.

Trauma Impacts on Relationships
• Trust- relationships suffer from lack of trust. In this of itself means that there is a lack of attachment and bonding for people with other people. Attachment is the emotional connection between people. Usually, it begins with the primary caregiver and bonding describes the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of one person to another. If the perpetrator initiated the trauma with the victim, then this process is hinder or even severed.

Coming Out of Darkness
There is always deliverance from the bondages of darkness that has surrounded our lives. Confession and surrender to Father God delivers us from darkness in our lives. It is through the redemptive act of Jesus Christ that the process of deliverance from these chains can be healed over time.
“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” Col. 1:13-1

How To Become Worry Free!
“I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33

Introduction.
The cares of life come to everybody. We all hit with the same circumstances as everyone else. So, if this is the case, and the Lord Jesus Christ stated that even though these things would hit us and come against us and our families and loved ones, how can we overcome as Jesus stated don’t worry, He has overcome all these problems and circumstances.
I believe that the architect of evil Satan will do all that he can to try to steal our faith. But we must have a sure and solid foundation, in the word of God to survive and resist every day of evil, putting on the full armor of God.
Hold Fast To Your Confession
We lack because we lack faith. We do not understand the love of Father God for us. He is a good and loving Father who wants us to trust Him in every situation. I did not say for everything but in everything. Father God is not the author of evil or evil situations but He is a loving Father who will rescue us when we act in FAITH!
It is vital importance that after we pray, we never go back on our prayers. Many people negate the Word of God by a negative confession. God stated, “so shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isa. 55:11.
And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him. I John 5: 14-15

Now let us look at these scriptures.
Cast all your anxieties on Him, for He cares about you. 1 Peter 5:7 RSV.
Casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. 1 Peter 5:7 Amplified Version.

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6.
“Therefore, I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying? And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you—you of little faith? So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.) and all these things will be provided for you. Therefore, don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34.

To Worry is a Sin!
To many people worry is just as much as a sin as any other lifestyle that does not in line with the Word of God. Some people think that they are pleasing or helping God when they are filled with doubt and worry.
Cast all your anxieties on Him, for He cares about you. 1 Peter 5:7 RSV.
Therefore, don’t worry about tomorrow because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matt. 6:34.
It’s Insane Not to Worry!
Some people think it is immature not to worry. To be a worry wart is a sign of maturity. No, it just shows you have little if any faith in Father God or His word.

Casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. 1 Peter 5:7 Amplified Version.

How To Deal with Anxiety?
Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6.

Let Your Problems Go!
As we BELIEVE we will SPEAK either faith or doubt. And as you speak you will LIVE!

Jesus replied to them, “Have faith in God. Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you, everything you pray and ask for—believe that you have received it and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing.”
Mark 11:22-25

And since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, and therefore speak. 2 Cor. 4:13

Devils, Demons and Evil
Don’t let anyone among you offer a son or daughter as a sacrifice in the fire [12:30–31]. Don’t let anyone use ·magic [divination; Ex. 7:11; Ezek. 21:21] or witchcraft, or ·try to explain the meaning of signs [augury or sorcery]. Don’t let anyone ·try to control others with magic [cast spells], and don’t let them ·be mediums [consult/inquire of ghosts or spirits] or try to ·talk with the spirits of [consult] dead people [1 Sam. 28].

When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Deuteronomy 18: 9-11

Introduction
There is a real devil and we can see the evidence of his presence and works all over. The devil comes to kill, steal, and destroy. Satan uses fear, division, lies, murder, rape, sickness, tragedies, sex, nudity, drugs, alcohol, mental disorders, violence, robberies, assaults, violence and more violence, perversion, greed, pride, stealing, etc.
We need prayer power and a spiritual awakening. Even as I speak with you and the devil is making you feel uneasy and wanting to listen anymore.
Mark 5: 1-9. He was violent and he lived among the dead.
Estimated a total of about 500,000 people associated with the “overall movement” of Wicca, with “tens of thousands” of members active in between 5,000 and 10,000 covens. Those have shown that Wicca grew tremendously over this period. From an estimated 20,000 Wiccans and Pagans, they found there were about 340,000 practitioners.
People are introduced to witchcraft at a very young age. It comes in what appears to be innocent games like Ouija board, reading cards, seances, fortunetelling, astrology. People get involved in these things through curiosity of the unknown.
They seek guidance and to understand their future. By doing these things we open the door to demonic activity. It is rebellion and pride that causes people to look outside from the knowledge of God.

Witchcraft comes from Rebellion.
1 Samuel 15:23 – For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.

1 Chronicles 10:13-14 – So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it];

‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.’ Leviticus 19:31.

And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead-on behalf of the living? Isa. 8:19.

‘Idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Gal. 5:20-21

Brief Picture of Witchcraft in Scriptures
A. Acts 8:5- 11—Philip in Samaria and Simon the sorcerer. Samaria was controlled by witchcraft.
Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed, and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city.
The Sorcerer’s Profession of Faith
9 But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.” 11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time.

The Motive of Witchcraft.

1. Occult people try to get near political power and authority.
2. They seek to hinder the preaching of the truth.
Deut. 7:26—Warning of “the cursed thing” in a home
E. Gal. 1:6–9—Galatians believe a false gospel.
F. Gal. 3:1—This put them under the power of witchcraft.
G. The evidence for their bewitchment—v. 10: They observed times (astrology and
horoscopes).
H. 2 Tim. 3:6–9—False teachers who deceive and seduce.
1. Comparison to Jannes and Jambres: Egyptian magicians
2. v. 9—Open conflict between forces of Satan and Christ
I. 2 Tim. 3:13—Seducers (magicians) will get worse.

We are in a War!

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which, you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Eph. 6:10-17

Know your Authority in Christ Jesus.

Danger of coming under the influence of witchcraft. A Christian can become oppressed but not possessed by demonic powers.

Nowhere in the epistles will you find the God rebuking the devil. He gave that authority to the church when He ascended on high. The church has been given full authority by the Risen Christ to rebuke and resist the devil. Remember that you have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness. Col. 1:13-14. You must be grounded and rooted in your faith. Col. 1:23.

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:15-18

Be Steadfast and Resist the devil.

• James 4:7. The devil will flee which means run in fear from believers.
• I Peter 5:8- resist- push back against the devil using the words of your confession.
• Renew your Mind with the Word of God. Rom. 12:2, transform your minds.
• Think on the word of God. Phil 4:6-9.
• We believe and confess the Word of God. 2 Cor. 4:13

• We believe and confess the Word of God. 2 Cor. 4:13

¡Juzgate a ti mismo!

Introducción
He ministrado durante más de 52 años ayudando a personas en todos los ámbitos de la vida. He estado con personas que han apreciado a Dios pero que en realidad no aprecian Su palabra. He visto a muchas personas, incluidos cristianos, morir antes de tiempo. A veces se debe a una mala vida, una mala alimentación, unas creencias y una vida incorrectas. Sé de cristianos que todavía beben alcohol y fuman y dañan sus cuerpos, que son considerados el templo de Dios.
Realmente creo que la causa número uno de los cristianos que mueren antes de tiempo tiene que ver con dos áreas. Número 1, falta de fe. Número 2, falta de caminar en el amor.

Caminando en amor
La Palabra de Dios dice que Dios Padre nos ha dado una medida de Su amor. Nacemos de Su amor por nosotros. Cuando dejamos de amar y no nos arrepentimos, hay consecuencias. La profesión médica afirma que las personas que guardan rencor, odio, resentimiento, difamación y negatividad general tienen un mayor riesgo de sufrir ataques cardíacos y accidentes cerebrovasculares.
Porque toda la ley (la que Dios le dio a Moisés. Los Diez Mandamientos) se cumple guardando este único mandamiento: “Ama a tu prójimo como a ti mismo”. Gal. 5:14
Sabemos que hemos pasado de la muerte a la vida porque nos amamos. Quien no ama permanece en la muerte. cualquiera que aborrece a su hermano o a su hermana es un homicida, y sabéis que ningún homicida tiene vida eterna residiendo en él. 1 Juan 3:14-15.

Bendición a tus enemigos
El significado de las bendiciones realmente es traer el reino de Dios al reino de las tinieblas. Esto rompe el reino de la oscuridad que rodea la vida de las personas. Esta es la razón por la que las personas que nos odian odian a Dios, las personas que son nuestros enemigos o que pensamos que son nuestros enemigos podrían ser enemigos de Dios. Bendecirlos es traer el reino de Dios en sus vidas para que el velo que los ciega por el enemigo pueda ser quitado. por lo tanto, cuando bendices a tus enemigos o la comida, rompes la esclavitud, o la presencia satánica o el tejido que rodea el mundo a su alrededor, que son enemigos de Dios.

El cuerpo de Cristo
Entonces, ¿para qué es esto, entonces?
Había muchos problemas en esta comunidad con orgullo y disensión. La gente no compartía, no se juzgaba unos a otros y no respetaba a sus hermanos y hermanas en el Señor.
Por tanto, cualquiera que coma este pan o beba esta copa del Señor indignamente, será culpable del cuerpo y de la sangre del Señor. Pero pruébese cada uno a sí mismo, y coma así del pan y beba de la copa. Porque el que come y bebe indignamente, come y bebe juicio para sí mismo, sin discernir el cuerpo del Señor. Por esto muchos están débiles y enfermos entre vosotros, y muchos duermen. Porque si nos juzgáramos a nosotros mismos, no seríamos juzgados. Pero cuando somos juzgados, somos disciplinados por el Señor, para que no seamos condenados con el mundo.
1 Corintios 11:27-32.

La profunda comprensión de la redención
Redención es una palabra que está en la mente de la mayoría de los creyentes, pero realmente no entienden lo que significa. Redención es una palabra muy amplia, especialmente en griego, pero tiene dos puntos principales que quiero discutir cuando se llama recompra, y el otro es la justicia de Dios.
Debemos entender que el mundo pertenece al dios de este mundo, que es Satanás. Cuando Adán y Eva se rebelaron contra Dios, entregaron el título de propiedad de la tierra a Satanás. Era una transacción legal, y luego esa transacción legal tenía que cumplir ciertos términos para que se cumpliera o cancelara. Se contrajo una deuda y se debía realizar el pago. El pago fue obra redentora del señor Jesucristo.
¿Cuál fue el motivo de Su sacrificio? ¿Qué significa redención?
Él nos redimió y nos hizo más que vencedores en él. Y Efesios 1:7 dice: “En Él tenemos redención [es decir, nuestra liberación y salvación] por Su sangre, [la cual pagó la pena por nuestro pecado y resultó en] el perdón y perdón completo de nuestro pecado, de acuerdo con las riquezas de su gracia”. (Biblia amplificada).

Es muy evidente que la humanidad no puede salvarse a sí misma. Debido a la rebelión de Adán y Eva, la humanidad quedó bajo el dominio de Satanás. Esa naturaleza de rebelión está en nuestros espíritus, por lo que Dios, a través de su hijo, Jesucristo, vino a pagar el precio máximo para arreglar las cosas. La muerte y resurrección del Señor Jesucristo se cumplió, la deuda final de la rebelión de la humanidad, y la transacción fue pagada porque ese Padre Dios cargó nuestros pecados y enfermedades sobre Jesús. Las Escrituras dicen que Él (Jesús), que no conoció pecado, Dios lo hizo pecado para que nosotros lleguemos a ser la justicia de Dios en Jesús. Col. 1:13-14

Él quitó el pecado
Jesús no sólo fue el portador del pecado, sino que Dios aceptó su sacrificio sustitutivo por nosotros. Las Escrituras dejan muy claro que Dios lo libró a causa de nuestros pecados y cargó nuestros pecados sobre él. Él resucitó de entre los muertos porque lo quitó. Satisfaría las exigencias de la justicia después de haber sido vivificado en un espíritu recreado. Él fue el primogénito de la muerte (Él es el segundo Adán) y fue declarado primogénito de muchos hermanos por la vida de Dios Padre importada a Él. Rom. 8:29 “Porque a los que antes conoció, también los predestinó para que fueran hechos conformes a la imagen de su Hijo; para que sea el primogénito entre muchos hermanos”.
Jesús se enfrentó al adversario en su propio reino, despojó la autoridad de Satanás y le quitó todo el dominio que tenía sobre el mundo cuando Jesús resucitó de entre los muertos. Jesús no sólo quita el poder del pecado, sino que también fue el sustituto en la redención. Por su sacrificio somos vencedores cuando Cristo resucitó de entre los muertos,

Dejad a un lado las cargas y el pecado.
El autor de hebreos distingue entre “peso” y “pecado” en el idioma griego original. Si bien el pecado viola la ley de Dios (y sin duda no debería ser parte de nuestras vidas), los pesos pueden considerarse impedimentos u obstáculos.
Por tanto, también nosotros, que estamos rodeados de tan grande nube de testigos, despojémonos de todo peso y del pecado que tan fácilmente nos asedia, y corramos con paciencia la carrera que tenemos por delante. Heb. 12:1
Como el Señor nos dice: “Dejad a un lado, es decir, desechad, desechad, todo peso; Detente y piensa: qué peso, carga, problema, herida, moretón, dolor, deuda, hábito, pecado, adicción, mala memoria, todo lo que es un peso para ti.
La frase “el pecado que tan fácilmente nos asedia” se refiere particularmente a esa tentación o pecado del que siempre somos víctimas; aquellos vicios o hábitos pecaminosos que parecemos pasar por alto ya sea por beneficios materiales, negligencia o actitud despreocupada.

Arrepentimiento
El arrepentimiento en griego es un cambio tanto de mente como de comportamiento.
Quien oculta sus pecados no prospera, pero quien los confiesa y renuncia encuentra misericordia. Bienaventurado el que siempre tiembla delante de Dios,
pero el que endurece su corazón cae en problemas. Proverbios 28:13-14.
Si mi pueblo, que lleva mi nombre, se humilla y ora, y busca mi rostro y se vuelve de sus malos caminos, entonces yo oiré desde el cielo, perdonaré sus pecados y sanaré su tierra. 2 Crónicas 7:14

Judge Yourself!
Introduction

I have ministered for over 52 years helping people in every walk of life. I been with people who have cherished God but really did not cherish His word. I have seen many people, including Christians, die before their time. It is sometimes due to wrong living, wrong eating, and wrong believing and wrong living. I know of Christians are still drink alcohol and smoke and they are hurting their bodies which are considered the temple of God.
I truly believe the number one major cause for Christians who die before their time has to do with two areas. Number 1, lack of faith. Number 2, lack of walking in love.

Walking in Love

The Word of God says that Father God has given us a measure of His love. We are born out of His love for us. When we walk out of love and do not repent there are consequences. Medical profession states that people who hold grudges, hatred, resentment, back biting, general negativity have a higher risk for heart attacks and strokes.

For the entire law (that given to Moses by God. The Ten Commandments) is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Gal. 5:14

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. I John 3:14-15.

Blessing Your Enemies

The meaning of blessings really is to bring the kingdom of God into the kingdom of darkness. This breaks the realm of darkness around people’s lives. This is why people who hate us hate God people who are our enemies or who we think are our enemies could be possibly enemies of God. Blessing them is bringing about the kingdom of God in their lives so the vail that blinds them by the enemy can be taken away.
so, when you bless your enemies or the food, you break the bondage, or the satanic presence or fabric that surrounds the world around them, who are enemies of God.

The Body of Christ

Therefore, what is this, therefore?
There were lots of problems in this community with pride and dissension. People were not sharing, judging one another, and disrespecting their brothers and sister in the Lord.
Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
I Corinthians 11:27-32.

The Deep Understanding of Redemption

Redemption is a word that’s in the minds of most believers, but they really don’t understand what it means. Redemption is a very broad word, especially in the Greek, but it has two main points that I want to discuss when is called buying back, and the other is the righteousness of God.

We must understand that the world belongs to the god of this world, which is Satan. When Adam and Eve rebelled against God, they handed over the title deed of the earth to Satan. It was a legal transaction, and then that legal transaction certain terms had to be met for it to be fulfilled, and or canceled. A debt was incurred, and payment was to be made. The payment was redemptive work of the lord Jesus Christ.

What was the reason for His sacrifice? What does redemption mean?
He redeemed us and made us more than conquerors in him. And Ephesians 1:7 it says, “In Him we have redemption [that is, our deliverance and salvation] through His blood, [which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in] the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace.” (Amplified Bible).
It is very evident that mankind cannot save himself. Due to Adam and Eve’s rebellion mankind, became under the dominion of Satan. That nature that rebellion is in our very spirits so God through his son, Jesus Christ came to pay the ultimate price to set things straight. The death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled, the final debt of mankind’s rebellion, and the transaction was paid because that Father God laid our sins and diseases upon Jesus. Scripture says He (Jesus) who knew no sin God made Him to become sin so we become the righteousness of God in Jesus. Col. 1:13-14

He Put Sin Away

Jesus was not only the sin bearer, but God accepted his substitutionary sacrifice on our behalf. Scripture makes it very plain that God delivered him on the account of our sins and put our sins on him. He was raised from the dead because He put it away. He would satisfy the claims of justice after he was made alive in spirit that is re-created. He was the first born out of death (He is the second Adam) and was declared the first born of many brethren by the life of Father God imported to Him. Rom. 8:29 “For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.”
Jesus met the adversary in his own kingdom, and striped Satan’s authority, and took from him all the dominion that he had over the world when Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus not only puts the power of sin away, but also was the substitute in redemption. Through His sacrifice that we are conquerors when Christ was raised from the dead,

Set Aside Weights and Sin.
The author of Hebrews distinguishes between “weight” and “sin” in the original Greek language. While sin violates God’s law (and without a doubt should not be a part of our lives), weights might be considered impediments or hindrances.
Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Heb. 12:1
As the Lord tells us to “Lay aside, that is to put aside, cast away, every weight; stop and think, — what weight, burden, problem, hurt, bruise, pain, debt, habit, sin, addiction, bad memory, everything that is a weight on you.
The phrase “the sin that doth so easily beset us” is with particular reference to that temptation or sin which we always fall victim of; those vices or sinful habits which we seem to overlook either because of material benefits, negligence or carefree attitude.

Repentance
Repentance in the Greek is a change of both mind and behavior.
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy. Blessed is the one who always trembles before God,
but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble. Proverbs 28:13-14.

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

The Pentecostal Experience- The Operation of the Gift of Healings. Part 7.

Introduction

The Essential truth of this last teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit deals with the gift of healings. The purpose of the gift of healings is to deliver the sick and destroy the works the devil in the human body.

The gifts he leaves are given by God for the supernatural healing of disease without natural means from any source. Every one of the nine gifts of the spirit is supernatural.
We may have some difficulty, because of our limited knowledge, in the defining of these other gifts, but there should be a little difficulty in defining the gifts of healings. Nearly everyone understands about healing. Of course, Jesus brought healing into prominence by his own ministry. He also gave authority to his disciples to heal the sick.
Matthew 10:8
We want to emphasize the supernatural character of all the gifts of the spirit, including a gifts of healings. These gifts have nothing to do with medical science or human learning. Luke, the beloved physician was with Paul, and many of his missionary journeys. Luke wrote in the Acts of the Apostles, as well as in the gospel which bears his name. He was with Paul when he was shipwrecked on the isle of the Melita (Acts 28). Nothing is said to the effect that Luke ministered to the people with his medical knowledge. In fact, Luke records that the father of the chief man of the island was sick and Paul, laid his hands on the man and the man was healed by supernatural power. The people brought sick throughout the island, for Paul to minister to them, and they were healed.
Of course, we believe in medical science, and we thank God for what they can do. We certainly are not opposed to doctors. But some people confuse medical science with the gift of healings. We thank God for medical science, and what doctors and hospitals can accomplish. We are not speaking against them with the great advantages they have created in modern medical technology. We also thank God for many good Christian physicians, who have the interest of their patients at heart and meniscal to them. But supernatural healings do not come by diagnosis or prescribing treatment; it comes by laying out of hands, anointing with oil, or sometimes speaking the Word of God. I believe in natural healing and I think God for, but I also believe in supernatural healing.

Jesus’ Ministry of Healing

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38.
Jesus ministered as he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. Jesus was much as the Son of God when he was 25 as when he was 30. At the age of 25, he had not healed anyone, and not one miracle healing had been done under his ministry. He was just as much as Son of God who is 29 has when he was 30 throughout the 29th year no one was healed, nor had he brought any miracle healing.
When Jesus was 30 even on the day before he was baptized by John in the river, Jordan and the Holy Spirit, descended upon Him to anoint Him to minister, Jesus was just as much as the son of God, as he was afterwards. Until that happened. He had never healed anyone. There was no one manifestation of power operating in His life.

It was only after the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus, in the form of a dove to anoint him to minister that these things begin to happen. In fact, Jesus himself never claimed to do the works. He said …the Father that dwells in me, He does with the works John 14:10. Jesus stood up and read in his hometown synagogue, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me…(Luke 4:18). Years later, Peter, preaching to Cornelius and his household said how God has anointed Jesus and Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power (Acts10:38).

Although Jesus is and was always the son of God, he never healed anyone until after he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power. This should prove conclusively that he wasn’t healing by some power which was inherit in him as a son of God, the second person of the Trinity, but that he was healing the sick just as any believer would minister to the sick today, by anointing of the Holy Spirit through the manifestation of the gift of healings.

A Full Measure of the Spirit in Jesus’ Ministry

Scripture tells us that Christ had the Spirit without measure. Therefore, we will see the manifestations of these things in His ministry, which we wouldn’t see in anyone else because He had the measure the Spirit without measure, and no other individual does. The one whom God has sent speaks God’s words, because God gives him the fullness of his Spirit. (Good News Translation John 3:34.)
Consequently, an individual would not have the same measure of success and ministering, even the guest of healing with Jesus had, because He had the Holy Spirit without measure, and having the Holy Spirit without measure, Jesus would have the manifestation of all the gifts of healing.
In the ministry of Jesus every manner of sickness and disease was healed. All the gifts of healings were in manifestation because Jesus had the Spirit ‘without measure”.

Two Different Manifestations of Healings

There is a difference in the manifestation of gifts of healings, and one simply receiving healing by our own faith in God ‘s Word. God has taught us through the years that differences between the two. We believe that vine healing has stated her statement of faith standing on Mark 11: 24. so any one can receive healing by standing on the word of God in faith.
Must understand that the gifts are given to the blessed church. All the gifts and ministries that are mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:28-30 are given to bless the church. There are no lone rangers in the Church of God. The Spirit blesses individuals through us to bless the church. Thank God for his word and for the privilege of believing and acting upon his word. Thank God for the supernatural manifestations of these gifts according to his will.
Now the gifts of healings (plural) are because there are different types of illness and diseases. I have seen God through me heal people of different diseases but not every disease. I have never been used to God to heal the blind or deaf. I don’t have the full measure of the Spirt as Jesus did. Jesus was not limited other than by the lack of faith by some. But if we believe in His word we can receive what we believe according to the word of God.

The Pentecostal Experience-The Operation of the Gift of Working Miracles. Part 6.

Introduction.
The essential truth of this teaching is that a miracle is a supernatural intervention, in the ordinary course of nature, a temporary suspension of the accustomed order through the spirit of God. Every one of the gifts of the spirit is miraculous. They are supernatural. In general, the use of the word miracle, all the gifts of the spirit are miracles, but specifically speaking, they are not working miracles then, is divided into specific acts such as Elijah dividing a verb by a sweep of a mantle after Elijah ascended to heaven, in the whirlwind, he received his mantle and divided the river Jordan. This was a miracle or intervention in the ordinary course of nature. I Kings 2:9-14
The realm of healing, miracles are often received, but they are not the result of work and miracles. They are healing miracles. Everything that God does is miraculous in a sense, but is not a miracle as in the case of turning water into wine, just by speaking a word– that is working miracles and miracle, therefore is a supernatural intervention in the ordinary course of nature, a temporary suspension of the custom order, and interruption of the system of nature, as we know it, operated by the force of the spirit of God.

Working of Miracles in the Old Testament
The working of miracles was more prominent, and the Old Testament in the New Testament people. Although people are healed in the gifts of healing were an operation in the Old Testament, because healing was more prevalent in the New Testament. When Aaron threw down his rod, it turned into a serpent Exodus 7:10 that was working a miracle when dust was turning into insects Exodus 8:16 and the other plagues that followed. These were the work of getting a miracles and operation. When Israel exited Egypt, the part of the Red Sea was a miracle. But when Moses looked to the Lord as the Egyptians were fast coming upon them, Lord told him to stretch forth his rod and Moses obeyed and the red sea divided. That was a working, a miracle, divine intervention, in the ordinary course of events.

Working of Miracles in the New Testament
In the New Testament, there are many workings of miracles that we can see. Many took miracles place in the ministry of Jesus as well as the apostles. And John 6:5-14 we see that Jesus took a little boy’s lunch and fed over 5000 people and had 12 baskets left over of food. In Acts 5:1-5 we see the working of a miracle to carry out divine judgment against Ananias and Sapphira and they’re keeping money back when he promised it to the apostles. The judgment of God struck them dead.
There are many instances with the working of power where God use supernatural manifestation to save peoples life like he did with the apostle Paul, when the boat was about to go under. Acts 27. The mighty work of God, and using miracles is to establish his dominion and omnipotence in a world, full of unbelief and sin.

The Pentecostal Experience- The Operation of the Gift of Faith. Part 5.

Introduction.

We will continue in describing and teaching the gift of faith. The gift of faith is the supernatural endowment by the spirit of God whereby that which is uttered or desired by man or spoken by God so eventually come to pass. The gift of faith is distinctly different from the working of miracles although both guests produce miracles. The gift of working for miracles is active whereas the gift of faith is passive. It doesn’t work; It passed certainly receives. In other words, the difference between the gift of working of miracles and the gift of faith is that one does and the other receives. The working of miracles is more of an action and the gift of faith is more of a process. The gift of working of miracles performs a miracle whereas the gift of faith receives a miracle. This is because the working of miracles employs faith which actively works a miracle, but the gift of faith employs faith which passively expects a miracle as sustained or continuous miracle. Also, the gift of faith in operation, the belief in miracle may not manifest immediately. It may manifest over a long period of time.
The Gift of Faith for Supernatural Blessings
We see that the gift the faith was used by the patriarchs of Old Testament, to proclaim supernatural blessings, or fulfillment of human utterances. When they were about to die, they would lay their hands on their sons, and would command blessings upon them. Often these blessings that would come to pass many years later. We see this in the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph. These patriots believed their announcements would come to pass at the appointed time in the future. This was a gift of faith in operation.

The Gift of Faith for Personal Protection

The gift of faith for protection, we see in Daniel 16:16-17,19-21 Daniel received Miracle he was the lion’s den. Those days throughout history. Many others were thrown into the lions and they were killed. Why did these lions kill DANIEL? The Bible says that Daniel believes in his God. There’s no doubt that God gave DANIEL special faith a special manifestation to receive deliverance. DANIEL didn’t do anything, he just laid down and went to sleep.

The Gift of Faith for Supernatural Sustenance

In 1 Kings 17:2-6 we see an instance where the gift of faith was used for supernatural substance at the time of famine. Elijah received supernatural faith given to him, by God, because it was beyond human reasoning to expect Ravens to feed humans. Nevertheless, Raven brought food to Elijah in the morning and evening. And by the supernatural faith, Elijah passively received a miracle.

The Gift of Faith for Raising the Dead

As I mentioned previously, the gifts of the spirit offered operate together. In the case of raising the dead, three gifts operate together – the gift of faith, the gift of working miracles, and the gifts of healing. This is one reason we don’t see too many people raised from the dead. Some Christians may have one or more of these gifts and operation and their lives, but not too many have all of them in operation. First, raising of the dead, takes supernatural faith – this gift of faith – to call a person’s spirit back when it’s left his body. It takes a working of miracles to raise a person and it takes a gift of healing. Otherwise, if the person is not healed, he would immediately die again. Therefore, all the power gifts are manifestations when someone is raised from the dead there are many instances in the Old Testament when Elijah prayed and God raised from the dead a young boy (1 Kings 17:17-24). Elisha raised from the dead the Women of Shunem (2 Kings 4:32-37). Also, in the ministry of Smith Wigglesworth, and John G. Lake, through the gift of faith people were raised from the dead. And even Jesus when He raised Lazarus and Tabitha from the dead.

The Gift of Faith for Casting Out Evil Spirits.

We know, of course, from Mark 16: 17 that general faith also is effective and casting out evil spirits as the Lord God stated. But they’re also a gift of faith that may be used to cast out unclean spirits from those bodies who have been defiled by them. Again, more than one gift in operation must be working. The gift of discerning, the spirit, and or the word of knowledge will be manifested, as well as the gift of faith. If that doesn’t discern or see, the spirit of the spirit is revealed through the word of knowledge. But the gift of faith still will be exercised to cast out the evil spirit.

The Gift of Faith for Ministering the Holy Spirit

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Gal. 3:5.
This gift of Faith comes into operation and laying hands for people to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Any believer can lay hands on people in general faith, and appropriate God, blessings, and believe God. But the difference between believing God, with general faith and appropriating his promises, that whom those supernatural manifestations, which is passed from one division, or another, is for the gift of faith. It is possible in general faith, to lay hands on a person for healing, or other blessings, although nothing may perceptibly manifest. If it is received, it is still a demonstration of God ‘s power, however when a person lays hands on another person, and there is a ministered through them healing, or the infilling of the Holy Spirit by supernatural manifestation, that is a gift of special faith and operation. God works in both ways by our general faith of appropriating his promises, and receiving power that that way and by a supernatural manifestation of God ministered from one person to another, which is a gift of faith and operation.

Forensic Victimology; Understanding Violent Crimes.

Introduction

In the realm of criminal justice, the word victim describes any person who has experienced any injury, loss, or hardship, due to illegal actions of another individual or organization. For all intents and purposes, victimology refers to the scientific study of victimization, including the relationship between victims and offenders, the influence of social media, and even social movements. The problem is that violence does not have a standard, or fixed definition per se. Definitions of violence are different between different countries and cultures and different times and contexts.
We will only touch on several different points presenting a brief overview of forensic victimology. We will examine at a general and theoretical level the different types of violence. This study will also focus on describing aspects of the lives and lifestyles of victims to gain a better understanding of how they became victims, what took place, and their relationship to the offender. We are not going to assign blame per se, but within victimology, it’s important to understand the dynamics of the criminal behavior as well as victims themselves. But we must understand the impact of collective trauma in peoples lives and how that builds a different psyco-social construction of their reality and life experiences different from ours.
It is also important to understand that in no way are we suggesting that offenders are not responsible for their actions. Each and every one of us have a God given will to follow Him or own narcissistic desires. This teaching is based on both my professional experience and academic preparation. I have used many resources for this teaching. If you would like this information, it will be listed under this teaching listed under “Current Events” which is located on our webpage; HarvestEvangelisticAssociation.com

Explanations of Violence

Influencers of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse.

There are many different reasons for aggression that relate to the person’s mind or body, and predisposition towards violence. I have labeled this as a person’s psyco-social construction of their reality.
There are a variety of mental disorders that can affect a person’s behavior. Schizophrenia, both homicidal and paranoid delusional, are considered more likely to be associated with violence and other forms of illnesses. Psychopathic disorders is a persistent and ongoing disability of the mind. The psychopathic checklist suggests a lack of empathy, callousness, and crucially lack of remorse or guilt or key predictors of psychopathic behavior. Furthermore, it includes indicators, such as superficial charm, grandiose, sense of self-worth, prone to boredom, pathological line, lack of realistic, long-term plans and impulsivity.
Also, ongoing research has indicated growing awareness of Posttraumatic, Stress Disorder, and some individuals suffering from this experience range of symptoms, including problems of concentration and memory, a constant alert, awareness to danger and extreme cases. Some have a need to reenact the traumatic situation that aligns her condition. This can be a precursor for violent behavior.
Of course, all these above-mentioned symptoms can be exasperated when we involve self-medication of drugs and or alcohol. Both affect behavior and constraints. Data shows that those prone to violent offences were either on drugs or drinking period two third of offenders intoxicated when they killed.

Sociological Theories; Poverty, Strain, and Crime.

Sociological theories are also indicators for some propensity towards violence. These are considered learning theories. Differential association expressed by Edwin. Sutherland stated that behavior is learned in interaction with others, mainly small, intimate groups. Most people encounter individuals who think law should be obeyed, but there are those that think that laws could be broken. Differential Association Theory is based on two key factors; learning takes place for the intimate personal groups, and the context of what is learned includes that committed to personal experiences as well as definitions towards future events. Another theorist named Bandura indicated that the use of physical violence against children is not necessarily based on learning theories. He said some people who inflict such violence have often been victims themselves. This is basically attributed to the lack or failure of socialization in childhood. Research into delinquent and aggressive children has shown that their behavior can be linked to the use of violence by their parents both on one another and on their children.
Furthermore, the visual portrayal of violence has a significant effect on younger viewers. Some studies have indicated that television viewing habits and aggressive behavior for both boys and girls have a tendency for more violent programs. Many studies of the behavior of children have indicated that there is an increase in violent and antisocial behavior of those children who are exposed to violent programs. To some degree this is the theory behind copycat killers. There was a release of a movie in 1984 called natural born killers. Another one was called child’s play 3. These are typical types of movies that have been linked to aggressive and or violent behavior with young offenders.

Psychological Aspects of Victimology

There are variety of psychological aspects attributed to the response of victims to violent crime. To come up with a solid definition is difficult if not impossible because different people respond differently. However there appears to be 3 stages or phases that victims go through. The first is the impact stage, then the recoil stage, and finally the reorganization stage the impact stage is the initial response to assault. The intensity and length of the assault and the level of physical injury and perceived threat to life or functionally paralyze even some minor assaults. The recoil stage is when the victims attempt to deal with the effect of the crime on themselves and their lives. Emotions will vary from sadness, anger, self-pity, fear, and even guilt. It is this stage where denial sets in and even detachment is sometimes evident period. It is very important during this stage to allow the victim over time to slowly come to grips with what would have happened to them. The 3rd and final stage involve reorganization. This emotional intensity of the recoil stage is expected to lessen and the victim has more energized to deal with life daily activities. Some people can pass through all stages quickly others have appeared never to finish the process. In any event post-traumatic stress disorder is as evident in their lives as other syndromes present. This is wolves the battered woman syndrome or domestic violence. The rape syndrome it’s both a sexual and violent act and it’s about the control and anger which are the motivators for the crime. Therefore, the consideration of these factors, and the response of victims to violent crimes, can benefit from appropriate behavioral health interventions when needed and supported by network of family, friends, and agencies.

Victim Lifestyle and Exposure

Victimology is a very important topic, because there must be an examination of how the victim became a victim and their relationship to the offender helps solve the crime. The main purpose of classifying victims is exposure lifestyle exposure as to which to achieve an understanding of how the victim’s lifestyle conditions might have intensified their exposure to violent crime. Research has included that there’s a low, medium and high in extreme high lifestyle exposure that increases the possibility of suffering harm. I exposure victims or those exposed to the possibility of suffering harm or loss more than not. An example would be a child who lives in an abusive and neglectful environment with one parent or another. Medium exposure victims are those who are exposed to the possibility of suffering harm or loss often. An example would be a college student who engages in excessive bridge binge drinking. Low exposure victims are those who are really exposed to the possibility of suffering harm. These victims rarely engage in behaviors or put themselves in harm. Lifetime lifestyle exposure refers to the frequency of exposure of the victim in the different categories indicated. Lifestyle factors can influence the overall possibility of individuals harm and three ways. One by increasing the victim’s proximity to and interactions with the offender those who are predisposed to criminality. Creating conditions of conflict with the offender by enhancing the offender’s perception of the victim’s vulnerability. And there are victims’ lifestyles which facilitate victimization through their routine activities. These lifestyle factors which we have spoken about may increase the exposure and vulnerability of victim’s period.

False Allegations of Crime

Most of the false reports that we find are mentioned in the press, and or outside of formal scientific research. However, the subject of false reports is there, and should be taken into consideration in investigation of Victimology. Some reaches found that people are threatened with sanctions, who are not politically acceptable, and are blackmailed and threatened. The problem is Victimology is very emotional, but professionals must be objective in there. The problem is those who make these allegations that are false nature really suffer any type of legal consequences.
The FBI unified uniform crime report noted that 30% of all raped and alleged sexual assaults reported to the police were determined by investigations to be unfounded. This writer also, through his professional employment and law-enforcement, found that mostly and custody disputes one parent or the other will make up allegations of sexual abuse, which he found at least 60% to be unfounded. False report may be an active revenge by the alleged victim. Another factor might be the need for attention. Another might be for profit or material gain. Also, it might be an alibi for inappropriate behavior and loss of virginity or sexually transmitted diseases. And finally, a change of heart after consensual sexual encounter.
Most alleged allegations of false reporters will name or even provide details of a subject in their complaint. Accusing a stranger is a red flag for many investigators. The pseudo victim claims an overwhelming force was used and that they resisted greatly, or that there were multiple assailants, even though there’s an absence of any injuries. Also, most victims cannot remember certain details, but pseudo victims sometimes are very detailed or very vague. Pseudo victims are also very indifferent to their injuries. They’re also very vague about where the crime was.
In summary, false confessions could have a variety of different reasons or circumstances that are being investigated. Is not this writer’s intention to criticize any victims reporting but unfortunately, there are those who use this for other than legitimate purposes.

Conclusion

In conclusion, not only as a psychologist, but is a Christian minister. I understand that many of these factors that we examined regarding Forensic Victimology and violent crimes, have a tremendous impact upon people’s lives. Not only in a temporal, but also in the long-term. We must understand the impact of collective trauma in people’s lives and how that builds a different psyco-social construction of their reality and life experiences different from ours. However, I must also indicate that if a person truly repents and turns their back on this type of behavior and surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, there can be no true healing that takes place. Everything that has its basis, physically, psychologically, and emotionally has its root spiritually. As mankind in their rebellion to the give accountability for their conduct to Father God have drifted further into darkness. I have witnessed that their journey into darkness has had tremendous repercussions upon themselves and their victims. Over the years, I have dealt with many people from all walks of life and I have seen over and again that when people fail to surrender to the Lordship of Christ, there is no healing in their lives. Mankind is rebellious, and do not want to become accountable to father God, and His truth. For those who are truly tired and repented of a life of violence can find true healing through the power of God. There are no lost causes for Jesus!

References
Jones. S. (2000). Understanding Violent Crime. Open University Press.
Meloy, J. (1992). Violent Attachments. Jason Aronson Inc.
Turvey, B. (2009). Forensic Victimology; Examining Violent Crimes. Elservier Academic Press.

The Pentecostal Experience- the Gifts. Part 4.

Introduction
In the last teaching of part three, we covered the revelation gifts, which are the Word of Wisdom, the Word of Knowledge, and the Discerning of Spirits. In this session, we will cover the three power gifts. The power gifts are those that do something. These are the Gift of Faith, the Working of Miracles, and the Gifts of Healing. We will first examine in this teaching the gift of faith. Please read once again, I Corinthians 12: 4-12. Let me reemphasize that the gift of faith, like all the gifts of the Spirit, is supernatural. It is not natural there are those who say that some of the gifts of the Spirit are natural and some are supernatural. However, if one is supernatural, then all are supernatural. I believe that every gift is a supernatural manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Please see. 1 Corinthians 12:11.

It is my opinion that the Gift of Faith is the greatest of all three Gifts of Power. However, all three are related and can be used interchangeably as the Holy Spirt desires. Therefore, we must understand that faith, like prayer, is often confused in some people’s minds. We tend to put all kinds of faith in the same bag, make them up and shake them altogether. But we must differentiate between them. There are four kinds of faith. The first kind of faith is saving faith which leads one to salvation. The second faith is general faith, which every believer has. The third is the fruit of faith or faithfulness, the fruit of the re-created human spirit, which comes after salvation. And number four, the gift of faith or special faith is a supernatural manifestation of the Holy Spirit, which is imparted to the believer after baptism-of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit.

Saving Faith
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God”— Eph. 2:8. Saving faith is that faith by which we are saved, and it is a gift of God. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”. Romans 10:17, Saving faith is imparted to us, by hearing by the word of God. However, this kind of faith is different, the gift of faith or special faith is different from saving faith.

General Faith
…. according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Rom. 12:3.
According to the scripture that we have just seen, there’s a general faith which I believers have. This general type of faith can be increased as Christian’s feed on the word of God and exercise it in the arena of life. We can call it ever increasing general faith. However, the gift of faith is one of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit given as a spirit. I want to insert in here that faith needs to grow and Cristian needs to grow up from babies to mature, clear thinking believers. How we think is how we will speak. And how we speak is how we will live.
It is the arena of general faith by which Christians receive answers to prayers. For example, we receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit by faith, and we receive the answers to prayer by faith, because “Jesus said whatever things you desire, when you pray believe that you have received them and you should have them”. Mark 11:24.
Prayers must be based on faith in God. It says that without faith, we cannot please God. We exercise general faith to receive answers of prayer. The Gift of Faith is a special faith to receive answers to prayer for special things that the Lord God wants to do in and through one’s life. The scripture says one is given a Word of Knowledge to another Faith by the Holy Spirit. Paull is very specific stating that to one is given Word of Wisdom, another Word of Knowledge, to another the Gift of Faith and to another the Gifts of healing.
“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit” I Cor. 12:8-9. Paul states that not everyone has any specific on-going gift but it is as given by the Holy Spirit as He wills. So, in summary we can see that the gift of faith is not the same as general faith which every believer has period. Patient has a valuation if we had to rely on the gifts of special faith to get our prayers answered then not everyone could receive answers to prayer.

The Fruit of Faith
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Gal. 5: 22-23

The fruit of faith is different from the gift of faith. In the Greek, the fruit of faith is called faithfulness. The fruit of the Spirit are the development of Christian character, but the gifts of the spirit are to produce power in the believer’s life. Fruit is something that grows. Faith or faithfulness is a fruit that grows in the life of a Christian to establish spiritual character. But the gift of special faith is a gift given by the Spirit of God as the Spirit of God wills. When we study the phrase of the gift of faith this is supernatural faith given to the believer by the Holy Spirit as He wills. 1st Corinthians12:9
I’ve heard people say that if God gives me faith, I will have it and he doesn’t I won’t but the scripture says to another is given faith and they think that this is the way to get faith. However, general faith is revealed to us by the word of God and by hearing the word of God. The gift of faith is different than the fruit of faith.

The Gift of Faith
“to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit”. 1 Cor. 12:9

So, we now can see that the gift of faith is not imparted to all but only to those who the Holy Spirit wills to do so. Again, it’s a supernatural manifestation of the Holy Spirit to receive a miracle. By the gift of faith, one does not work a miracle but receives the faith for a miracle. The gift of faith the distinguished from other kinds of faith in that with special faith there is a manifestation of the evidence of the supernatural. One can supernaturally Believe in God for a miracle. Of the three power gifts, the gift of faith, the working of miracles, and the gifts of healing, the gift of faith in my opinion is the greatest. We have seen that the gift of faith or special faith is separate and distinct from saving faith which leads one to salvation, general faith which every believer has, and the fruit of faith which helps developed one’s Christian character.