John Wasserman Podcast

Our salvation came at a cost. God determined this cost by looking at our potential, or future value. This value is based on Christ being formed in us, since we were still his enemies when He bought us. We must be willing to pay the price for this formation, living up to our full potential to provide the full reward to Christ for what He had suffered. Humans judge by truth and our actions are drive...

The resurrection of Jesus would not have been possible without Him being crucified. Although we love to read about his sacrifice on the cross, we should not forget about the power of his resurrection, that is what created the Church, it is the Church’s foundation, and it is vital to our walk with God. Jesus has been raised, He is alive, which means that Christianity is not just another dead religi...

A Service Commemorating the sacrifice of Jesus for us.

We live in an age of shareability and self-promotion, an era where so many seem to want to be noticed and get attention. However, Jesus flew in the face of the way in which we are living today because He often operated in secrecy. He made a practise of going to lonely places to pray to his Father in secret. He would avoid the wrong kind of adulation from people and was a friend to the lowly. The f...

We are in a process of building an ever-increasing relationship with God, one of trust and friendship. Church fathers in the past experienced what they called a ‘second blessing’ or ‘entire sanctification’, meetings with God. which endowed them with tremendous power to minister. There is at this time a strong, specific call from the Spirit upon our hearts to reach for the high calling for which we...

we are in union with Christ and need to practise the spiritual disciplines to help us stay in communion with him. The next discipline we are looking at, is simplicity. Life can sometimes be exceptionally complicated. Biblically simplicity is getting back to a pure devotion to Jesus. We must in no way be distracted from the simplicity of our relationship with him by getting so involved in the mecha...

The Church of today is not in danger, as it was in the day of Paul, of returning to the strictures of the Law. Today the danger is that Christians, instead of serving the Lord in full accordance with all of God’s requirements, are picking and choosing what to adhere to, and thus following an impure gospel. The spiritual disciplines described up to now have been all about the spiritual things which...

People in the Old Testament got anointed with oil to fulfil a specific task, purpose, or office, for instance, that of a King, Priest, or Prophet. Because we are children of God we are also anointed. We have to remind ourselves of the fact that we have been anointed, enabling us unto what God has called us for, whether it be in our jobs, studying, whatever the case may be. The realization of our d...

There are times when God will take us on adventures beyond what we could think or imagine. He really wants to make an impact in the real circumstances of our lives. Although it may at times seem as if God is absent when we experience adverse circumstances, when we can log into the fact that He is always with us we can become aware of his blessing in every circumstance. We need to be in a relations...

One can set up a goal for oneself and that goal would then become a judge to measure up yourself against. Our goal is to have Christ formed in us. The Apostle Paul had achieved the highest level of authority possible for him in the nation in Israel, yet he reckoned all of that to be of no value compared to knowing Jesus Christ. According to the Apostle John, we can know Jesus, if we know grace and...

In the discipline of stillness, silence and solitude, there is an abstinence from the stimulus by which we are surrounded. The issue in our modern world is one of busy-ness, wherein our minds are always busy and experiencing high-voltage stress. We live in a world full of noise, people, and circumstances. We have, unfortunately, gotten to the place where being busy is attached to our sense of wort...

There are disciplines which we can engage in deliberately, intentionally, assigning time to it, to make our oneness with Christ a reality. In this lesson we look at the discipline of Biblical meditation, not eastern meditation practices which are basically emptying the mind, etc. Meditation is the faculty whereby we ponder upon and envision things, and every human being is well able to do this. It...

We live in an age and world which is very shallow, sensual, superficial, selfish, and entitled, constantly demanding instantaneous gratification, a world that serves all kinds of appetites. The world needs deep, solid, balanced, knowledgeable, and spiritual Christians to bring healing to it. To become this kind of Christian, we need to adhere to certain disciplines in our spiritual walk with God....

When we get saved, Christ is in us, the hope (not a wish, but much stronger – a guarantee) of glory. However, He needs to be continuously formed in us until we reach the full measure, stature, and image of Christ, in other words, maturity or perfection. The fullness of the Godhead lives in us in bodily form, a great mystery. This not only requires from us a biblical understanding, but also to do s...

In order for us to walk in fulfilment, we need to walk in Christ. God has called us to live in the grace of Christ which firstly means that we need to live in the grace which Christ lived in, living in the way which He lived, saying what He said, and doing what He did. Secondly, we need to live with the grace which He supplies. Living for him, living with his resurrection life and power, requires...

The overall plan and purpose of God, which is for us to be conformed to the image of Christ, does not change from year to year but always stays the same. However, the Lord has specific purposes for each congregation. The theme for ACF for 2024 is “that it may be fulfilled in us and demonstrated”. In 2024 the members of ACF will see the word of God spoken over their lives fulfilled. This will be a...

A king has a kingdom, and every kingdom has a unique philosophy or flavour originating from its king. The kingdom of God has as its foundation righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the one enabling the righteousness, peace, and joy and it does not come from our own efforts. Even as the Magi came to bring gifts to Jesus, He has come to give us gifts, the first being the...

We are anointed unto the calling of doing the work of the ministry. Unto this end, Christ (his nature and character) is being gradually formed in us by the Spirit of God. Although we have received this nature and character when we got born again, it is not always manifest. There is no instant formula to follow which will enable us to manifest Christ’s nature and character, it is only worked by the...

When Israel was in the wilderness, stubborn, and murmuring against Moses and God, God regarded their rebellion as the sin of witchcraft and their stubbornness as iniquity and idolatry. The result was death through a plague of serpents sent by God. Their salvation after they repented, was not the removal of the serpents, but rather the image of a serpent being put up on a pole and they had to look...

Jesus died so that He may be formed in every believer and any doctrine proclaiming less than that, is not the true gospel. To reach this fulness of Christ, we need to make a consistent investment of quality time, outside of church services, to develop our spiritual lives and spiritual gifts. A deeper relationship with Jesus requires from us to be intentional in having times of communion with him....

The goal of Christ and the Holy Spirit is to present every believer perfect, holy, fully mature in Christ. There are different kinds of maturity, i.e. physical maturity, intellectual maturity, psychological maturity, and spiritual maturity. These are all tied together. Being in Christ means having an intimate, connected relationship with him. With salvation we come into union with Christ, but to g...

For many Christians their lives are devoid of the fulness of what Christ had desired and designed it to be, and for them it is only about going to heaven after death. There is nothing in their lives about finding their designed purpose, entering the things of the Kingdom, and maturity in Christ. Coming to maturity is a process, where we need to have the revelation of Christ, to understand the resi...

In Paul’s letter to the Galatian believers we see that he had a burden for them, was anew in labour to see Christ formed in them. Certain Jewish Christians had come in and tried to teach the Galatians, who initially were gentiles, to adhere to a mix of Old and New Testament doctrines, trying to divert their affection to themselves. There is also today, in the Body of Christ, an unhealthy obsession...

The baptism of John was not a Christian baptism, but its purpose was to return the Jews of his day back to the original faith of their fathers from which they have strayed, and thus prepare them for the coming of the Messiah, which the scribes and pharisees rejected. The Christian baptism is being baptised into the nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – part of the salvation process. It is e...

According to the Apostle Peter we, as Christians, have been called by God to be submissive unto every level of authority, be it in the world or in the Church. The Bible is very clear about the fact that we will face persecution and suffering because our righteous walk is in direct opposition to the spirit of this world. Handling this momentary suffering right, will result in an unfading glory – an...