John Wasserman Podcast

There were many, many credible witnesses to the fact that Jesus had risen. We need to know the power of Jesus’ resurrection. Mary saw two angels at the place where Jesus’ body had been placed, symbolizing that Jesus had become the ark of the covenant - He was now the new atonement and mercy seat, the place of reconciliation. The resurrection of Jesus appeared to be so improbable to his disciples,...

In the cross of Christ, there is a justice for us against the bitterness of slavery to sin and the powers of darkness. We have now received righteousness and life through grace and faith in the blood and sacrifice of Jesus and will not come under any condemnation again, because we have chosen and love the light of God. God could not just ignore our sin because He is a just God, but through Jesus’...

Jesus was the fulfilment of every prophecy, type and shadow which had been recorded in the Old Testament. There were a number of feasts in the Old Testament, each displaying one aspect of all that which Jesus was going to fulfil by dying on the cross. On Palm Sunday He overtly entered Jerusalem displaying the fact that He was the King, the Messiah, ushering in the New Testament and seeing out the...

We need to add to our faith in order to avoid being blind and forgetful. The Communion has been put into place by Jesus so that we can remember, meditate on and believe how powerful his death, burial and resurrection was for us to come out of a place of death, judgment and wrath into a place of life, forgiveness, acceptance and grace. Partaking of communion while believing this, is partaking of it...

Prayer is of eminent importance and we are encouraged to be faithful in prayer during this time of lockdown and not lose heart but keep our eyes on the advancing of the Kingdom of God. Prayer will give us hope and encouragement and carry us through. The Scripture is full of the injunction from God for us to pray. Our prayers need to be preceded by thanksgiving. Christ has already won the victory,...

The whole purpose of Jesus’ coming was to submit to the plan of the Father, fulfilling all righteousness. He submitted fully unto the Father as the Son becoming a suffering servant, giving up His divine attributes and immense rights. He committed himself from before eternity to do this. Although a suffering servant, the offices which Jesus had were those of prophet, priest and king – which offices...

Jesus is our righteousness – He was the ransom for our sins and we are in complete right standing with God. That being the case, why do we need holiness? God instructed us (or stated our position) in the book of Leviticus to be holy, because He is holy. A person manifesting holiness is someone who is manifesting the character of God, infused by His Word. It is a person who has gotten rid of all th...

Jesus needed to be circumcised, go through the baptism of repentance officiated by John the Baptist and eventually go to the cross to fulfil all of God’s requirements for righteousness. Even as He did, we also need to serve God in His way, not ours. Water baptism needs to take place publically, because it is not only a re-enactment of our salvation, but something which seals the deal. Water baptis...

When Jacob wrestled with a man, this man was God himself – which proves that we have been created in the image of God. As Jacob did, we also have permission to wrestle with God. At the burning bush in Exodus 3, God spoke to Moses face to face but Moses hid his face, because he was afraid. In Exodus 33 Moses again spoke to God face to face without fear, because he had built a relationship with God...

We need to look at the culture at the time in which the Bible was written, to understand what certain words really meant. The meaning of the words ‘first heaven and earth’ which passed away and ‘no more sea’ in the book of Revelation was not referring to what we see as the heaven sea and earth today, but in the time this book was written, John was talking about (and it was understood by the Jews a...

Psalm 1 stands as the doorkeeper to the rest of the psalms, and it says that in order to be blessed one should not walk in evil, but meditate on the Lord. The rest of the psalms weave you through the entire tapestry of life and what your response should be like in every circumstance. The book of Psalms ends with an ascending crescendo of all-encompassing praise unto God, done with words and instru...

When Jesus came, his purpose was to reveal God as Our compassionate, tender, loving and comforting Father, instead of a distant, uninterested God. God, being in Jesus, experienced every human trial which we go through and can empathise with our weaknesses. God is for us and always with us, whether we experience His presence emotionally or not. He will always provide an escape and deliverance in ti...

Being in the ministry is not a job, but a function of raising up spiritual sons and daughters to fulfil their mandate in the purpose of God. For that purpose grace is needed and outrageous grace always start with me first – it needs to be experienced, bringing a change of heart, a pattern, before it can be extended to others. For outrageous grace to be preached is a divine enablement. Becoming thi...

Initially in the Old Testament the priests were anointed for the singular purpose of being set apart and sanctified for their office. Later we also see kings and prophets being set apart and anointed for their office, endowing them with a divine enhancement of natural abilities and an enablement to do things which were impossible before. When Jesus was baptised in the Holy Spirit, He was empowered...

The message which came to us when we accepted Christ and which we are called and appointed to take to the world, is that Christ, through His Holy Spirit, comes to the meek and poor in spirit, that He binds up the broken-hearted and sets the captives free. Our message is also to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord’s favour, giving people beauty for ashes. The process of going from ashes to bea...

We were created to praise - it is an integral part of every human being. We praise the things which we support, value and love. We should be just as enthusiastic about praising God celebrating His love and everything that He has done for us as what people are at a sport event. Praise is where God dwells. When we praise the Lord, we have got his ear, His presence manifests and things start to chang...

God is looking for worshippers, because worship is an indication of where your heart is. The word ‘praise’ means ‘to ascribe value to something or someone and then to describe that value’. The word ‘worship’ means ‘ascribing worth-ship to someone’, in other words, declaring that person totally worthy of your adoration. Many people teach that praise is about God and worship is to God. Praise is usu...

We do not base our excitement for 2020 on various prophetic words, although they are an excellent reminder, but we need to realise that all the good things promised to us in God’s word are available to us all the time and that they are not seasonal or occasional. We reach for the fulfilment of all these things by being grounded in God’s word and ways. - Pastor John The new year does not only indic...

Jesus said that everybody in the Old Testament prophesied up until the time of John the Baptist. In the Book of Revelation John is talking about the days of the seventh angel who carried out his instructions – this took place around the crucifixion of Jesus. With the completion of his sound the mystery of God was complete. In other words, the work of Jesus on the cross was finished. When that happ...

The purpose of Jesus’ coming was succinctly spelled out by his name ’Joshua’ which meant ‘He is to save his people from their sins’. He was specifically anointed to save us from our sins – sin as seen from the viewpoint of a holy God, not our prideful and self-justifying one. In the incredible grace and condescension of God manifested to us by Jesus’ coming, His first point of contact with us was...

When we look at the physical genealogy of Jesus, which the Bible calls the circumstances under which He was born, there are people listed in it who were far from glowing or pure, but often unrighteous, wicked and evil. This continued wickedness had a consequence of Israel going into exile and slavery in Babylon where they quoted the saying “our fathers ate sour grapes and our teeth are on edge” th...

Jesus came as the Son of God, divine and perfect, but his whole life was given over to and saturated in prayer – modelling for us what to do. It is important for us to understand that prayer helps us to access all the grace of God. We are Kings and Priests unto God. Our priestly ministry is to represent each other to God and God to each other. In anything which we ask from God according to his wil...

When God teaches us His word, it is a seed planted inside of us to remember Him by, especially through the intimacy of meditation. Our capacity to remember enables us to relive past experiences and those are invoked by certain triggers, like for instance a certain aroma. God wants to heal us from negative memories coming from our past. This healing comes when we experience meetings with God and th...

To understand the Kingdom, is to understand prayer. Total governance over the world was put on Jesus’ shoulders and delegated to the Church, His brothers, who have been taken from out of the dominion of satan and put into the Kingdom of light. We are His Body, who fills everything in every way. We are His feet, under whom everything has been subjected. We are about the Father’s business, which is...

What we agree with in our lives will have an influence over us and the one or what we submit to, will rule over us. We have agreed with the truth which Jesus brought and lovingly submitted to His lordship over us. Jesus did have all authority before He became part of humankind because He was with God and He was God, but laid it down and emptied himself to be born as a man, thereby identifying hims...