Most Christians have been taught that God is a God of wrath. But is that really true? Religious teachings and misinterpretation of the Bible have propagated a wrong impression of God, which makes it difficult to have a vibrant relationship with Him. Thankfully, God has revealed His true nature to us through His Word.
welcome to a special edition of gospel
truth with Andrew Wommack a teaching
ministry that focuses on God’s
unconditional love and grace today
andrew is teaching on who God is and who
we are recorded live from the 2019 grace
of faith conference in Telford England
you need to recognize that you were an
absolute mess before Jesus saved you
apart from God’s influence in your life
you just don’t realize how perfect God
created us to be
and now here’s Andrew this week on our
gospel truth broadcast we are going to
be doing something a little different
I’m going to be playing a live teaching
that I did in Telford England back at
the end of May and I was teaching about
the true nature of God I was doing it
from a little bit different perspective
just talking about how that to have a
relationship with God you have to
understand some basics about what is
true nature and character is and I tell
you most people have a misunderstanding
about God and who he is and so I think
that this is really gonna bless you this
was a teaching in Telford England we had
about 3,000 people at the conference and
it was just an awesome time so watch
this as we air this teaching that I did
in Telford England you know God laid
some things on my heart for this week
specifically and I’m really excited
about this you’ve probably heard me say
this but I have to tell you and I’m
excited because I’m always like this
I actually went to Disney World and you
know when you go on those rollercoasters
they take pictures of everybody you know
screaming and stuff and then at the end
of the ride they sell it to you you
could have taken a picture of me right
now and that’s the way I looked on that
roller coaster that’s good in some ways
I guess it’s bad in some ways but I have
to tell you when I’m excited and I am
really excited about what God is gonna
do and praise God we’re believing God
that this week we are going to see great
and mighty miracles happen because Jesus
is alive and Jesus wants to heal you he
wants to set you free and specifically
the Lord spoke to me that he wants to
reveal himself to you instead of you
coming to get healed or come in to get
prospered or coming to get your needs
met what you need is an encounter with
the Lord
and when you really connect with him
everything that he is and has is yours
and I promise you you’ll be healed
you’ll be delivered you’ll get whatever
you need and sometimes we can get our
eyes so much on what we need that we
forget that it’s Jesus that we need more
than the healing more than anything else
and I believe that God is going to do
some great things I actually brought
notes which is nearly impossible for me
to minister from but the reason I did
this is because God showed me specific
things that he wants me to share with
you and I’m gonna try and follow this
and get through some things that God
specifically spoke to me but I’ll
confess to you upfront I’m not very good
ministering from notes but the Lord
spoke to me that we need to really
understand what his nature is who God is
and there’s a lot of people that have
misunderstandings about God and then I
want to show who we are and eventually
I’m going to get to who we are in Christ
our new born-again self but I am going
to share who we are without Christ and
this is important I don’t think most
people have a rebel
of this matter-of-fact Steven Bransford
the man that does our media department
we were in Denver coming here and both
of us were getting our boots polished
and we were talking to the man who was
polished in our boots and Steven just
asked him he says so do you think people
are basically good are basically bad and
he said oh they’re basically good
everybody’s really good at their core
and if we just gave him the right
environment and enough money and all of
these things then everybody would be
good and man that is exactly opposite
what the Bible teaches and if you don’t
understand that it’s going to lead you
to some wrong decisions some wrong
things so anyway I’m gonna be talking
about who God is who we are without
Christ and then who we are and what we
have in Christ and these things many of
the things that I’ll be sharing may look
like they’re exact opposites of each
other in the beginning but it all ties
together and it really begins with you
finding out who God is if you don’t
understand the very nature and character
of God there is no way that you can
really have a good relationship and sad
to say this is where so many people are
they come to a meeting like this and you
know that God exists but you don’t know
it and I’m not talking about you aren’t
born again you can be born again but you
don’t have a relationship with him and
therefore it’s easy for the devil to
accuse you and say for instance if you
came for healing and if you don’t
instantly see something happen you just
fall for the lie that well God hasn’t
done anything God didn’t touch me
because you don’t know his nature in
character and you’re just going by what
you feel and what you see and what
somebody else has to say about him you
need to know God not just know about him
but you need to know God you cannot have
a relationship with God if you don’t
first of all know his real nature and
character there is a lot of
misinformation about God being put out
and a lot of it comes from the Bible I’m
going to be dealing with that tonight a
misinterpretation of the Bible it says
in 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse 15 it
says study to show yourself approved
unto God a workman that needeth not to
be ashamed rightly dividing the word of
truth there is a right way to interpret
the word in a wrong way and sad to say a
lot of religious teaching today is
giving a wrong understanding of God
because it takes the Old Testament wrath
that was released and they present that
this is the nature and the character of
God there is no scripture that says God
is wrath there is a verse that says
first John chapter four verse eight that
God is love and yet there is wrath from
God revealed in the Old Testament how do
you rightly divide this and this is what
I want to talk about tonight and help
you to see what the true nature of God
is it says in John chapter eight verse
thirty-two that you shall know the truth
and the truth will make you free and so
it’s not good enough just to believe
that there is a God and just to believe
whatever you want to about it let me say
something right here that may shock some
of you but you know what idolatry is a
lot of people think well sure I dolla
tree is having some graven image and you
pray to it or worship to it Digital
idolatry is just making your own God and
there’s many people that have not
created an image and yet they have
created their own God I’ve actually
heard people before say well I wouldn’t
wish worship of God that doesn’t heal or
that doesn’t set free or that doesn’t do
this did you know I understand what
they’re saying but that’s really wrong
because what you’re saying is I’m going
to only worship God if he’s like this
you are creating a God in your own image
you are you are at side Allah tree what
we’ve got to do is go to the Word of God
God revealed himself through his word
and we have to accept the revelation
that he’s given us now it’s wonderful
that we do serve a good God a gracious
God a Merce
for God a forgiving pod God is
absolutely better than any office could
ever imagine I agree with that but did
you know what I am NOT going to go and
say god I’ll serve you if this is the
way you are he’s God and I’m not and I
just have to accept the revelation that
he has given in his word it says in 2nd
Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 that all
Scripture is given by inspiration of God
and is profitable for doctrine for
reproof for correction for instruction
in righteousness and that word they’re
given by inspiration of God if you look
it up in the Greek it literally means
that the scripture is god-breathed the
scripture is not man revealing their
thoughts about God there’s a lot of
people that believe this and they think
that this is an old book that it was
people writing their opinions of God and
so therefore they cherry picked the
parts that they like and what they want
and they just believe that it’s fallible
it’s it’s written by man but the
scripture says about itself that it is
god-breathed God inspired the Word of
God through people it also says in 2nd
Peter chapter 1 verse 4 it says whereby
are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises talking about the Word
of God that by these you might be
partakers of the divine nature having
escaped the corruption that is in the
world through lust the way you for take
of God is through the scripture God
revealed himself and we have to take the
revelation that God’s Word gives so I
just want to introduce this introduce
this tonight by saying that you don’t
need to sit here and have these things
and say well I believe this is the way
that God is I believe God ought to be
like this I wouldn’t worship a God who
does this you need to just drop those
things and say what does the revealed
Word of God teach about him and that’s
what I’m going to share with you tonight
and I tell you if you don’t really
understand the true nature and character
of God you’ll never understand your new
nature you’ll never understand
and a lot of things we are his offspring
it is not up to us to create a God in
our own image that we want we have to
take the revealed revelation of God’s
Word and so there’s so many scriptures
that talk about this I haven’t got time
to go through all of it but the Bible
has been misinterpreted and missile IED
and even the devil tried to use
scripture on Jesus Matthew chapter 4
Luke chapter 4 the devil said if you be
the Son of God cast yourself down for it
is written he shall give his angels
charge concerning thee and in their
hands they shall bear thee up lest at
any time thou dash thy foot against the
stone you know what he was doing was
quoting Psalms chapter 91 verses 11 and
12 but here’s what sums 9111 says it
says for he shall give his angels charge
over thee and then it goes on to say to
keep thee in all thy ways the devil just
conveniently left that part of the
scripture off which means see he was
just saying that God is going to protect
you in anything you do whether it’s
tempting him whether it’s going against
his promises or not that’s not what the
Word of God says so he left that part
out and then he added some to it it says
and in their hands they shall bear thee
up lest at any time thou dash thy foot
against the stone
Satan said lest at any time you dash
your foot against the stone
so he took Bible truth but he quested it
and applied it in a way that would have
made it okay for Jesus to tempt God and
yet Jesus responded to him and said get
behind me Satan and he says because it
is written and he quoted the scripture
to him that you shall not tempt the Lord
your God so my point is that if Satan
tried to use scripture on Jesus then you
know what you could misinterpret the
scripture you need to take the word of
God and you need to rightly divide the
word here’s what it says in Hebrews
chapter 1 verses 1 & 2 God who at sundry
times and in divers manners spake in
time past unto the father’s by the
prophets hath in these last days spoken
unto us by his son whom he hath
appointed heir of all
by whom also he made the world’s this is
saying that Jesus is a greater
representation of God than anything that
was ever said or done in the Old
Testament
not that the Old Testament was
inaccurate it was just incomplete Jesus
is the complete revelation of who God is
and in verse 3 it says who being the
brightness of his glory and the Express
image of his person and upholding all
things by the word of his power when he
had by himself purged our sins sat down
on the right hand of the Majesty on high
Jesus is the perfect representation and
that word that was translated right
there that he is the Express image did
you know that the greek word there is
the word character it’s spelled exactly
like our English word character this is
the where we get the word character from
and it literally means an exact copy
Jesus is an exact copy of God he is the
perfect representation jesus said this
of himself he says have I been so long
time with you and yet thou has not known
me Philip he that has seen me has seen
the father and how sayest thou then show
us the father jesus was such a perfect
representation of God he was able to
tell his disciples if you’ve seen me
you’ve seen the father in John chapter 5
verse 19 jesus answered and said none of
them verily verily I say unto you the
son can do nothing of himself but why do
you see it the father do for what thing
soever he doeth these also doeth the son
likewise I’ve actually had some people
take that verse and say well this is
showing that Jesus wasn’t truly God
because he said he couldn’t do anything
by himself it’s actually just the
opposite this is Jesus claiming such a
oneness with God the Father that they
could not operate independent of each
other he couldn’t do anything just of
himself he and his father were one is
what he said and if you have seen him
then you have seen the Father and Jesus
is the perfect representation if you
understand what he’s
right here this answers a lot of
questions about God
some people think well is it God’s will
to heal everybody let me ask you did
Jesus ever put sickness on a person did
Jesus ever say no you haven’t learned
your lesson yet you aren’t mature enough
you haven’t suffered enough I want you
to suffer longer there is not one single
instance that Jesus ever refused to heal
a person there’s a couple of times that
people wouldn’t receive the healing that
he offered it says in mark chapter 6
verse 5 that he could do no mighty work
say that he laid his hand upon a few
sick folk and heal them and he marveled
because of their unbelief it wasn’t
Jesus who wasn’t able to minister the
healing it was them that wouldn’t
receive it but there is not one single
instance of Jesus not healing a person
there is not one single instance of
Jesus laying hands on a person in giving
them sickness and yet there are people
in the church today that says God is the
one that gave you this trial God is the
one who wants you to be sick they will
say it’s punishment for sin or sometimes
they’ll say that you’re learning
something by this this is how God breaks
you and makes you a better person if
that was true well then Jesus didn’t
accurately represent the father because
he never made a single person sick he
never refused to heal a person he never
sent anybody away unhealed it says in
Acts chapter 10 verse 38 how that God
had anointed Jesus of Nazareth with
power and with the Holy Ghost who went
about doing good and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil Jesus also
set people free from demonic things it’s
not God’s will for a single person to be
suffering under emotional things if you
were experiencing any of those things if
you’re listening to what I’m saying God
is revealing himself to you that Jesus
came to set you free
it’s the devil who comes to steal kill
and destroy John chapter 10 verse 10 but
Jesus came to give you life and to give
it to you more abundantly see you need
to take what the word says right here
and say God I know
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that my suffering my problems this is
not you this is not you it’s not God
he’s turned to deaf ear to you there’s
multiple things that work but somehow or
another it’s the devil or you’re
ignorant or your rebellion or there
could be multiple things involved but
it’s not God who is not healing you it’s
not God who hasn’t set you free it’s not
God he’s not giving you an abundant life
because he came to give you life and
give it to you more abundantly it says
in 1st John chapter 4 verse 8 the last
part of that verse it says that God is
love that is who God he is that is his
nature that’s the core of God John 3:16
for God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish but
have everlasting life Jesus came to keep
you from perishing and this isn’t
talking about just going to hell that’s
the extreme that’s the ultimate but he
came to give you life right now and to
give you joy and peace you don’t have to
wait until you died and go to heaven to
start experiencing heaven jesus said to
pray thy will be done on earth as it is
in heaven he wants you to have heaven
here on earth it’s not just pie in the
sky by and by but it’s steak on the
plate while you wait amen
God wants you to be blessed 2nd
Corinthians chapter 5 verse 19 says that
God was in Christ reconciling the world
unto himself not imputing their
trespasses unto them and hath committed
unto us the word of reconciliation this
is how he’s able to extend grace to you
and when I get into talking about who we
are in Christ and who we are in just our
natural self without Christ I’ll explain
this a lot more in detail and I think
it’ll really help you to understand it
but in Christ
we are now reconciled unto God how did
he reconcile us by not imputing our
trespasses unto us this is another great
revelation about God is that he is not
holding your sins against you and
brothers and sisters the vast majority
of the body of Christ does not
understand this the vast majority of the
body of Christ believes that God is
dealing with them according to their
sins and there’s different degrees of
this some people will believe that any
sin in your life God won’t answer your
prayers if you have any sin and they
will just sit there and make you feel so
depressed and so discouraged because
your own heart will condemn you and
recognize that you’re falling short and
I have meant hundreds probably thousands
of people who knew that God exists they
had had a touch from God but they just
couldn’t live perfectly and they thought
they had to be perfect before God would
answer their prayers and they just
finally despaired of it and went the
other direction not because they didn’t
believe that God exists they just
thought there’s no way I can meet this
standard but then there’s other people
that believe well you won’t go to hell
you won’t necessarily be hated by God
but he won’t answer your prayers he
won’t bless you he won’t use you but
this verse says that he does not impute
our trespasses unto us all of our sins
have been atoned for past present and
even future sins sins you hadn’t even
committed yet have been put upon the
Lord Jesus and he forgave you of sins
that you haven’t even committed yet and
I know somebody’s thinking how can God
forgive us in before I commit it you
better pray that he can
because he only died for your sins one
time 2000 years ago and if he can’t
forgive sins before you commit them then
you can’t be forgiven he can forgive
sins your sins have been forgiven now
does that mean that you’re free to go
live in sin I’ll be dealing with this in
more detail too but no even though God
is not bringing his judgment on sin
Satan games in road to you through your
sin so if you go out and are living in
sin Satan is going to eat your lunch and
there you go so you do not want to live
in sin it’s just stupid quit living in
sin but what I’m saying is God loves you
stupid a man he’s not holding your sins
against you but Satan will make you pay
if you’re living in sin so quit doing it
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Johan had a supernatural encounter with
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it’s better to give Jesus a hand
and of course there’s so much more that
we could share than what that little
video showed but tell him about your
healing that you had that is absolutely
miraculous well we’ve been through a lot
of mission trips to Brazil and basically
there was an outbreak of the yellow
fever
and it’s a deadly virus and I never I’m
stumped by any mosquitoes but that time
I was stung by a mosquito and I had the
yellow fever I didn’t know it but when I
went back to Holland the doctors told me
I we got some bad news for you you have
yellow fever your organs gonna bleed
you’re gonna be turning into yellow and
you’re gonna and you can probably die I
said well first of all let me stop you
there yellow is not my color
some people are yellow but it’s not my
color my organs are not gonna bleed and
I am NOT gonna die because I’m gonna
live that’s what my father says I break
it in a mighty name of Jesus hallelujah
so when they told me the next day I was
healed so you know that’s cool but
that’s basically the father that we are
surfing you know and now I know my daddy
God is my father and all the other
things that I desire in my life he is
giving it to us we live in prosperity
believers supernatural help he restored
our family our children our marriage and
I’ve got so many testimonies I can speak
on til tomorrow morning I know Hobie you
know it will never end we got a good
card hallelujah all right Brandon let’s
hear from you how is your oh my we’ve
been together for 24 years and only the
last year since we’ve been through Karis
Bible College only then started our
marriage and now we’re walking with
Jesus I would encourage everybody who’s
in here just go to a school nearby
because it’s gonna change your life
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Rimac Todd white Daniel M Stutz and
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pastor mark coward state senator Dennis
Heisey and state representative mark
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