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American Clergy Leadership Conference

American Clergy Leadership Conference. Family Breakdown. Despite its Christian heritage , the United States leads the industrialized world in the: percentage of single-parent homes (23%) abortion rate (22.9 / 1,000 women aged 15-44), sexually transmitted diseases teenage birth rate

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American Clergy Leadership Conference

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  1. American Clergy Leadership Conference

  2. Family Breakdown Despite its Christian heritage, the United States leads the industrialized world in the: • percentage of single-parent homes (23%) • abortion rate (22.9 / 1,000 women aged 15-44), • sexually transmitted diseases • teenage birth rate • use of illegal drugs by students (44.9 % in ‘98) • size of the prison population (327 / 100,000).. Source: "Lost in America" by Tom Clegg and Warren Bird

  3. Family Breakdown Is America’s Great Moral and Social Crisis • From 1970 to 2000: • Rate of marriage declined by one third • Divorce rate has doubled • Married couples with children declinedby one third • Out-of-wedlock births have tripled • Cohabitation (couples living together without marriage) has increased 1000 % • Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census • Current Population Reports, 1970-2000

  4. Family Breakdown The Church Challenged A national survey of Christians indicates that Born-again Christians have a slightly greater probability of divorce (27%) than the rest of society (24%). (George Barna)

  5. Family Breakdown The Church Challenged

  6. God’s Purpose for Creation Genesis 1:28 “And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." 1) Be fruitful (individual) 2) Multiply (family) 3) Have Dominion (natural world)

  7. God God God Man Body Woman Mind Human Creation TrueFamily True Indiv K. of Heaven Society Nation World God’s Purpose for Creation The Three Blessings - Genesis 1:28 Have Dominion Multiply Be Fruitful James 1:22 “Be ye doers of the word… Matthew 5:48

  8. Jesus on Marriage “Have you not read, that He who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and saidfor this reason… the two shall become one flesh, so they are no longer two butone flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder…for your hardness of heartMoses allowed divorce, but from the beginning it was not so.” Matthew 19:4-10b

  9. Why is God’s Plan so Difficult, Why is the Challenged? The Family that God wasplanning to Bless Became Cursed… Adam and Eve’s marriage and family life took place outside the garden.

  10. GOD’S COMMANDMENT: Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” THE RESULT OF DISOBEDIENCE: Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

  11. Man Changed from the Lineage of God To the Lineage of the False Father Eve Eve Adam Adam Satan God Humanity Humanity Satan’s sovereignty God’s sovereignty John 8:44 “You are of your father, the devil. And your will is to do your father’s desires.”

  12. Fallen Man is in The Midway Position satan Adam Eve Fallen Man Children (Born in Sin) God Adam Eve Children

  13. Fallen Man is in The Midway Position God Fallen Man satan

  14. Fallen Man is in The Midway Position God ADAM ABEL CAIN satan

  15. The Bible The Bible • Book of Revelation Important parts:symbolism and metaphor • The Parables of Jesus

  16. John 16:25 “These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shallno more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.”

  17. Commandment Foundation of Substance 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God Adam Archangel

  18. Foundation of Substance 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God “god & ruler” Archangel Cain = 1st Born = Abel 2nd Born

  19. Archangel Cain = 1st Born Foundation of Substance = Abel 2nd Born 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God

  20. Foundation of Substance 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God = Abel 2nd Born Genesis 4:6-7 Cain 1st Born

  21. God Adam Eve Children True Family Ideal Jesus & John the Baptist Judah (south) & Israel (north) Moses & Israelites Perez & Zerah Jacob & Esau Isaac & Ishmael Shem & Ham Abel & Cain Hell

  22. Foundation of Substance 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God = Abel 2nd Born Israel Jacob Cain 1st Born Esau

  23. 2. Elder Son’s Dominion God Foundation of Substance Israel

  24. Blessing if Faith if no Faith Israel is Tail Curse Israel Prepares For Christ Israel is Head Law Covenant Isaiah 18 7-10 Deuteronomy 11 Deuteronomy 28

  25. “Surely they will reverence my son.” Matthew 21:33-43 Owner GOD Son Servants JESUS PROPHETS Tenants ISRAEL VINEYARD

  26. Words of Jesus John 6:28-29 “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent..” Matthew 23: 37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”

  27. God Holy Spirit Jesus Spiritual Rebirth BELIEVERS Spiritual Physical Christ’s Return: The Mission Jesus Mission: Spiritual & Physical Salvation Spiritual Salvation Original Sin Rom. 7:21-25 Rom. 8:23 SALVATION

  28. Spiritual Salvation Romans 7:21-25 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

  29. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

  30. SERVE THE LAW OF GOD WITH MY MIND BUT …. SERVE THE LAW OF SIN WITH MY FLESH ? WHY?

  31. 2Corinthians 12:7:“…. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.”

  32. THE THORN MUST BE REMOVED FROM OUR FLESH FOR OUR MARRIAGES TO BE BLESSED AND THE KINGDOM TO COME

  33. Romans 8:23“…and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”

  34. Christ’s Return: The Mission God Holy Spirit Jesus Spiritual Rebirth BELIEVERS God New Eve 3rd Adam Spiritual & Physical Rebirth Jesus and the Holy Spirit – SPIRITUAL TRUE PARENTS Spiritual Salvation Original Sin Rom. 7:24-25 Rom. 8:23 TRUE PARENTS

  35. God Jesus Holy Spirit US Spiritual Rebirth through Jesus and the Holy Spirit Spiritual True Father Spiritual True Mother • When we believe in Jesus as the Savior through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, • We receive the love of the spiritual True Parents, generated through the give and take between Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

  36. God Jesus Father Moon Holy Spirit Mother Moon Anointing Anointed Blessed Marriage BLESSING OF MARRIAGE – Breaking the Curse TRUE PARENTS Spiritual True Father Spiritual True Mother TRUE PARENTS

  37. God Jesus Pastor Holy Spirit Spouse Anointing Anointed Blessed Marriage BLESSING OF MARRIAGE – Breaking the Curse TRUE PARENTS Spiritual True Father Spiritual True Mother TRUE PARENTS HOLY WINE Blessing of Marriage Matthew 19 4:6 What God hath joined together let no man put asunder

  38. REBUILD THE FAMILY RESTORE THE COMMUNITY RENEW THE NATION AND THE WORLD

  39. RENEW THE NATION AND THE WORLD

  40. The Sons of Abraham God Israel Sacrifice for Esau = Jacob 2nd Born Second Israel Christianity Esau 1st Born First Israel

  41. The Sons of Abraham God New Israel Sacrifice for Esau = Jacob 2nd Born ISAAC Esau 1st Born ISHMAEL

  42. God ISHMAEL ABRAHAM ISAAC Islam Christianity Judaism Reconciliation of the Sons of Abraham

  43. Revelation 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

  44. I Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

  45. THE OLD RUGGED CROSS So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,Till my trophies at last I lay down;I will cling to the old rugged cross,And exchange it some day for a crown

  46. Now The Time Has Come to Come and Claim Your Rightful Inheritance - As The Children of The King!!!

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