Freedom Ministries with Mike Popovich

So How do you pray? If you could ask for anything right now, what would you ask for? If you received the answer to your prayer, how would you feel? The feeling is the prayer, not the words of repetition.  Be enveloped by your answer. Feel the emotion of your answered prayer with gratitude. When you change how you feel, you reprogram your heart. When you reprogram your heart, you change what shows up in your life, SO YOUR JOY MAY BE FULL!

“For it is evident that God will in truth be all in all when there shall be no vile in existence, when every created being is at harmony with itself and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord; when every creature shall have ben made one body” - St Gregory Of Nyssa Christ conquered sin and death and gave us assurance that “He will never leave us nor forsake us” The lie of separation brings fear. Religion paints itself as “our way back.” We are in union with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in perfect love and peace. Everything we will ever need has already been provided for us. 

The early church did not teach separation from God.  The idea of separation came from Greek Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle) introduced primarily by St Augustine around 400 AD. The concept of “hell” being “eternal torture” was not an accepted doctrine until after 500 AD. The Nicene Creed was established at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325. The lie of separation produces fear … religion creates ways to get back to Christ...which produces works of the flesh. When you can see that you are perfectly loved, radically forgiven and in union with the perfect love of the Trinity, Life begins to flow out of a healed heart. 

The early church did not teach separation from God.  The idea of separation came from Greek Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle) introduced primarily by St Augustine around 400 AD. The concept of “hell” being “eternal torture” was not an accepted doctrine until after 500 AD. The Nicene Creed was established at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325.   The lie of separation produces fear … religion creates ways to get back to Christ...which produces works of the flesh. The truth of reconciliation and union with Christ produces true peace and joy. Life begins to flow out of a healed heart. 

If you are wondering what “God” is like, He is exactly like Jesus.!  Jesus did away with the fear, guilt and shame of the law, and replaced it with His unconditional love and radical forgiveness or grace.  Whatever you are going through is not your end. You can get your hopes up because Jesus is your end. He is the alpha and omega. He is for you, and never against you!

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Revelation 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: “Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!” Every knee will bow because everyone will meet Christ Jesus. Perfect love casts out fear. His all consuming love (consuming fire) will burn up all wrong thinking and impurities in His presence.  When you replace fear with the assurance, love, peace and joy of Christ…Life starts to miraculously flow from your inside. 

In this message for Christmas, Mike discusses how Jesus is Heaven's perfect lamb.

Unending Punishment was never taught in the original Hebrew and Greek texts.  When you unravel a couple of verses, the scriptures give you rest and you see an all loving Father. There is correction, but its always to turn people back to God. We don’t need to “convert” people. We need to “convince” them of His unconditional love and their inclusion in Christ Jesus.  We need to stop making God out to be a tyrant, which has caused more people to walk away from the truly good news than almost any other church teaching.  “Fear not… I have the keys of Hell and Death,” Revelation 1:18 

In this message, Mike discusses some of the contradictions in what is taught in church about salvation, atonement and heaven and hell. The real gospel is not the fear of torture forever. It is that sin and death has been conquered. His all consuming love never ends and never fails.  Eternal life is knowing the truth about His love and union with you. Hell is the opposite of that. When you believe the lie, you live in fear and hell.  His lake of fire, purifying love, ultimately consumes hell and death.  The gates of hell have not prevailed. Jesus has the keys and has flung the gates wide open. Is it possible that someone could reject perfect love? My hope is the same as Jesus and our loving Father. I hope none shall perish.