Rob Rufus Resources!!

There's a couple of resources I wanted to point out coming out from City Church International in Hong Kong. Rob and Glenda Rufus have just returned from South Africa where they took part in a "Word and Spirit Conference" together with Dr Michael Eaton - the well-known theologian and author. Here are the sessions;

Session 1 - Michael Eaton

Session 2 - Michael Eaton

Session 3 - Rob Rufus

Session 4 - Rob Rufus

The second resource I wanted to mention was entitled "The Rob Rufus Blank Bible". Regular readers may remember my fascination and excitement with the Jonathan Edwards Blank Bible. I first mentioned it back in 2006, took some notes from the fellow volume; "Notes on Scripture" at the Evangelical Library last year and finally brought the two volumes of the "Blank Bible" in February!

It was while I was spending time reading the "Blank Bible" that I suddenly got a vision. I have been so impressed with the way that Jonathan Edwards worked through the Word of God writing his own notes on Scripture that I decided it would be an awesome resource to do the same thing with Rob Rufus's preaching and teaching (and ultimately other true grace teachers). I saw a vision of an awesome resource where anyone can access notes and help and insight on any verse of the Word of God.

I have waited some months since having the vision because I wanted to gather together Rob Rufus's commentary on as many verses as possible before I launched the project - obviously it being a work in progress. I should point out I have sent the hard copies of this to Rob and Ryan Rufus for their approval. So here it is;

"The Grace and Glory Blank Bible".

As I say it is my ultimate dream to add other grace and glory teachers such as Bill Johnson as it grows. May it be an added help to growing in our love and appreciation for the Word of God and more importantly God Himself in relationship.

Invading the Impossible - Part 7

I actually transcribed this 2nd message that Rob brought to City Church International after "Invading the Impossible - Part 6" because of the way they were numbered. However it appears that Rob actually brought "Part 7" first before the church worshipped. It must be THE shortest Rob Rufus sermon ever at about 20 minutes! However in reading it through you can see how incredibly stirring it is and how wonderfully motivating to worship. I transcribed the notes on a very quiet night shift and actually sat motionless for half an hour just meditating on the fact that Jesus Christ is exalted to the right hand of the Father and has poured out the Holy Spirit!!

Here are the notes:

“Let’s go to Acts chapter 2. We’re going to go to four Scriptures to prepare us to praise and to worship. Last week we looked at the wonderful news that Jesus is exalted to the highest place as a Man. He was God and He is God and always will be God but He gave up equality with God and took on the form of a Man. He never gave up being God but He made Himself nothing and took on the form of a Man. He was exalted to the highest place after the victory of the Cross and the Resurrection. He was exalted to the highest place and all authority in heaven and earth was given to Jesus through the victory of the Cross. The Bible says in Ephesians 1; “God has put all things under His feet and God has appointed Him to be head over all things for the church”. FOR US. There is a Man in heaven called Jesus who is exalted above everything His Name is above everything. Every knee must bow at His Name in heaven and on earth and under the earth. He has all authority in heaven and on earth. ALL. He is exalted – He has all things under His feet and He is the head of all things. FOR US. For the Church!

That revelation is the basis for the outpouring of the Spirit. As you worship Jesus today – not to try and get Him to be exalted but have a revelation right now that He is already exalted. Everything is already under His feet!

I have a cough right now but that cough is already under His feet. Now it doesn’t feel like it is under His feet right now. How many of you have situations right now that they don’t look like they are under Jesus’ feet? But they are already under His feet! Well how come they don’t feel like they are under His feet? Well because they are under His feet in the realm of the Spirit – in the realm of revelation they are under His feet! It has already happened! He is not going to put them under His feet – but has already. This has already happened!

This flu is already is under His feet but it is not under His feet in a manifestation of the earthly. This cough proves that it is not under His feet in the physical – not under His feet in my experience or the natural. It is under His feet absolutely in the realm of the Spirit – Jesus has conquered!

So what is God waiting for? He is saying to Jesus, “You sit at My right hand and we will wait until Your enemies are made Your footstool”.

What is a footstool? A footstool in the Bible is a resting place for someone who is sitting on the Throne. Jesus said in the Gospels that the earth is His footstool. So what is worshipping at His footstool?

Worshipping God is worshipping Jesus Christ because He is already exalted to the highest place even though we can’t right now experience everything under His feet but which has already happened in the Spirit. As you worship Him and praise Him then God in the earth in your experience in the natural forces the enemy to bow His knee and be under your feet and under the footstool of Jesus Christ.

That is what praise is all about! (Acts 2:32) “God has raised this Jesus to life and we are all witnesses of this fact, exalted to the right hand of God. He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you know see and hear for David did not ascend to heaven and yet he said, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”. They are already under His feet but in the earth realm all cancer is not yet under His feet but it is under His feet in the Spirit and as we praise and exalt Him the power of God falls and then cancer becomes His footstool, flu becomes His footstool!

When you praise God extravagantly God puts your enemies under His feet on your behalf that are already in the Spirit under His feet. (Hebrews 1:13) showing that Jesus is superior to the angels. “Which of the angels did God ever say, ‘Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’? Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who inherit salvation?”. How many of you have inherited salvation this morning? Therefore the angels are your servants ministering to you – the ‘heirs of salvation’. Angels are coming into this place to minister to you! As you praise Him and say you are exalted Lord – as you do that – everything that is under His feet in the Spirit is manifested in the earth realm in tangible, under-His-feet experience in the reality of your experience.

(Hebrews 10) – Do you have to be holy enough or good enough to earn the right to praise Him? How many of you know that God hates religion? How many of you know that in the last days the Bible warns that there will be terrible times (2 Timothy 3:5) – the Bible says there will be people with a form and appearance of godliness but who deny the power of the Gospel. What is that? Legalism! That is putting people under condemnation and under guilt and trapping them into all systems of doing things of keeping law, rules and regulations – God says, “I hate that! I started that under the law but I am displeased with that”. (Isaiah 66) – God says He hates the sacrifices and ceremonies and the law keeping – He says that is not the kingdom.

Christians today around the earth are not praising God with extravagance because many of them are held under a government of control, of legalism, of condemnation. They are not sure whether their sins are forgiven but I promise you your sins are more than forgiven – you are perfect in the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ!

Notice that God hates the law thing even though He gave it. (Hebrews 10:8) – This is Jesus speaking. “Here I am …”. He has set aside the 1st Covenant to establish the 2nd. Christians need to be established in the New Covenant – not only understand it but be established in it. (v10) – “I have been made” – it is already an accomplished fact – I have been made holy through the sacrifice of the one Body of Jesus Christ once and for all. That means you have been made holy once and forever – it is once and for all! You are sitting still when you listen to this because you don’t believe the Gospel – that is your problem! (v11) – “Again and again he offers the same sacrifice which can never take away sin but when this priest Jesus had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins He sat down at the right hand of God”. You are perfect forever because this sacrifice by this Jesus was all sufficient. ALL sufficient. You are made holy forever! Forever and ever! Nothing can change that!

(v17) – “Sins and lawless acts I will remember no more and where these have been forgiven there is no longer any sacrifice for sin”. THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO DO TO BE RIGHT WITH GOD, IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE! He is exalted, everything is under His feet for you – now as we praise Him, He will bring it under His feet in manifestation in the earth realm. (Psalm 99:5) – “Worship at His footstool” – What is His footstool? Where He is making His/our enemies to be under His feet in reality and experience. That which is happening in the Spirit is happening in our life experience.

Songs: “He is exalted” – “How great is our God” – “Our God is an awesome God”.

A Revelation of Jesus!!

At the end of Session 4 in Dubai, Rob shared an amazing list of how Jesus is revealed throughout the Word of God and I thought it was worthy of it's own post so it is not missed at the end of the Session 4 notes.

Genesis - The seed of the woman.

Exodus - The Passover Lamb.

Leviticus - High Priest.

Numbers - Pillar of Fire by Night and Pillar of Cloud by Day.

Deuteronomy - Prophet like Moses.

Joshua - Captain of our Salvation.

Judges - Judge and Lawgiver.

Ruth - Our Kinsman Redeemer.

1 and 2 Samuel - Trusted Prophet.

Kings and Chronicles- Our Reigning King.

Ezra - Our faithful Scribe.

Nehemiah - The rebuilder of the broken walls of our shattered lives.

Esther - Mordaci.

Job - Everliving Redeemer.

Psalms - The Lord our Shepherd

Proverbs - Wisdom

Ecclesiastes - Wisdom

Song of Solomon - Lover and Bridegroom

Isaiah - Prince of Peace

Jeremiah - Weeping Prophet

Lamentations - Weeping Prophet

Ezekiel -The wonderful 4-faced Man.

Daniel - The 4th Man in the Fiery Furnace.

Hosea - The Eternal Husband forever married to the Backslider

Joel -The Baptiser in the Holy Spirit.

Amos - The Burden Bearer.

Obadiah - Our Saviour

Jonah - Our Great Apostle

Micah - The Messenger with beautiful Feet.

Nahum - Our Avenger.

Habbakkuk -The Evangelist pleading for Revival.

Zephaniah - The Lord Mighty to Save.

Haggai - The Restorer of the Lost Heritage.

Zechariah - The Fountain open to the House of David for sin and uncleanness.

Malachi - The Son of Righteousness rising with healing in His Wings.

Matthew - The Messiah.

Mark -The Wonder Worker.

Luke -The Son of Man.

John -The Son of God.

Acts - The One moving and working among men.

Romans -The Justifier.

1 and 2 Corinthians -The Sanctifier.

Galatians -The Redeemer from Curse of Law.

Ephesians -The Christ of unsearchable riches.

Philippians -The God who supplies all our needs.

Colossians -The Fullness of the Godhead bodily.

1 and 2 Thessalonians -Our Soon-Coming King.

1 and 2 Timothy -The Mediator between God and Man.

Titus -The faithful Pastor.

Philemon -The Friend of the Oppressed.

Hebrews -The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant.

James -The Lord who raises the sick.

1 and 2 Peter - The Chief Shepherd who soon shall appear.

1, 2 and 3 John - Love.

Jude -The Lord coming with 10's of thousands of His Saints.

Revelation -The King of Kings and Lord of Lords.