John Wasserman Podcast

In order to enjoy the resurrection life of Christ we need to first experience the death and burial of Jesus. This is a life to, for and out of Him, a life in the Spirit. When we look at the Garden of Eden, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a picture of the self-life kingdom (the domain of satan), while the Tree of Life is a picture of the Christ-life kingdom. Jesus died so that we coul...

To experience a glorious and victorious Christian life (the Christ-life), there needs to be death first. In other words, first death and then resurrection. The life of Christ is a crucified life, which means in our union with Christ we have surrendered our own life and will and are dead to self, alive to Him. This life is lived by the faith of the Son of God, the most holy faith. The daily denying...

We are part of Christ, the vine, and the very same nutrients and illuminating life which flows from the Father to Jesus, also flows through to us. When we are born again, we receive a new life, the life of Christ himself. This means that it is still our bodies, but animated and governed by His life. We are children of light and life, illuminating the darkness of this world when we release the Chri...

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ brought us into freedom, into liberty, and the purpose of this was for us to be sanctified, free from the Law, our flesh, sin, and the enemy, enabled to love God and people. This happens when we are baptised, being identified, and in union with Christ’s death and resurrection, resulting in being quickened into a new higher life with him. In baptism the body of si...

In the case of criminal law, when there is more than one eyewitness to a crime, or strong circumstantial evidence of a crime, it is easy to get a conviction of the perpetrator. Jesus, in his resurrected body, was seen by more than five hundred people, thus making the fact of his resurrection irrefutable. The resurrection of Jesus was of vital importance to every Christian because He was victorious...

Looking at it in an historical, spiritual context, all of history revolves around the cross of Jesus. It was the day on which the high priest himself became the once-for-all time sacrifice. The cross became the mercy seat. The cross was the judgement seat of Christ, as well as the throne. This voluntary sacrifice revealed God’s and Jesus’ love for sinners. On the cross Jesus carried the sin of the...

There is power and anointing behind reading the Scriptures out loud. It was common practice in the Old Testament – for hours to all the assembly of Israel – as well as at the time of Jesus in the Synagogues, for the Law to be read out loud. This public reading of scripture also continued into the time of the New Testament churches. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word became flesh – Jesus....

We live in a world where the phrase “the end justifies the means” is used by people to justify their unethical actions while on the way to attain ‘good’ results. Unfortunately, this attitude has also infiltrated the Church, while we should be different. We need to pray for each other to once more be the image of God’s consistent and complete morality, uprightness, perfection, and integrity represe...

The Old Testament is full of types and shadows, all pointing towards Jesus and the salvation which He brought through the offering of himself, a perfect and once-for-all-time sacrifice. There were five offerings which the Israelites brought, and these were all instruments of grace to contemporarily restore or maintain the relationship between God and themselves. They were the burnt offering, the g...

We have reached a place on the timeline of God where He is shifting, aligning, correcting, and adjusting through the blood of Jesus, plus a second touch, that which has been out of order for just too long in our lives. This second touch from Jesus is bringing an awakening in the body of Christ, clarity of vision, a complete restoration and perfection. This will enable Christ’s body to function acc...

When we are born again, we come in total union with Christ, dying with him and being resurrected with him. In the action of re-birth we have died to, and are freed from the Law, even as a woman is freed from being married when her husband dies. While we were married to the Law, we produced fleshly, illegitimate fruit unto death (dead works), but now being married to Christ we have been freed to be...

Water is essential to life and the Holy Spirit is often depicted in the Bible as water since He is essential to our lives. In the Old Testament natural rain was a result of Israel obeying the Law and in the New Testament water or rain is a picture of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit – both resulting in a new quality of life. Floods are also a picture of trials, and when the enemy comes in like a...

The next revival which we are anticipating is going to begin in the prayer meetings. We have all been assigned to pray but especially to be involved in corporate prayer, since corporate prayer elicits an immediate response in the spirit realm. Every individual believer is being battled by the enemy to make them feel insignificant. He is trying to thwart the full purpose and plan God has for each b...

As born-again believers we are in Christ, in an intimate relationship with him, our works are no longer because of law and thus fruitful. A key to fruitfulness and blessings is obedience to Jesus. Obedience is the attitude of submission to instruction and authority and most of God’s blessings are contingent upon following his instructions. Loving and obeying God are inseparably linked because his...

To be fruitful was the first command in the Bible, the creation mandate. Throughout the Bible God is depicted as the gardener and as such, He expects fruit from our lives. “Be fruitful” is in one sense a command from God, but also a grace-filled power statement. At first the command for multiplication had to do with filling the planet, but at the time of Abraham it changed to God wanting the multi...

Jesus came to preach and establish the kingdom – a kingdom of dominion and rulership. This is what we are here to do, not sitting and waiting to escape in a rapture. A king is not voted in, his word is law, and he owns everything. Jesus’ kingship was manifested through him ruling over sickness and death and we need to pray for that manifestation in every area of our lives as well as in the world a...

Throughout the Bible we see different aspects of God as our father, for instance, him being a shepherd, and in Christ as a husband. God is also described as a husbandman ploughing and sowing seed in our lives unto bringing forth a harvest. He also is the architect, building up our lives so He can dwell in us by his Spirit. He is also depicted as the gardener, which means that we are the planting o...

There are always endeavours at the beginning of a new year to determine God’s will for that year. We must keep in mind that there are certain constants in God’s will and plan and then there are other things which God maybe wants to emphasize. As we can see throughout the Bible, it is God’s will that His kingdom shall be manifested on earth – that is a constant. Jesus (and that also means his Body,...

A king has a kingdom, and every kingdom has a unique flavour taken from the king. The universal Kingdom of God consists out of people and is one of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Jesus came to give us gifts to make us kings. The first gift is righteousness, a well of ever-flowing living water welling up to eternal life. This righteousness is the righteousness of God which came to...

The very first preacher of the Gospel in the New Testament was the Angel of the Lord who appeared to the shepherds at the time of Jesus’ birth, saying fear not, for I bring you good tidings of great joy. Whereas it was the custom in Israel to fear the appearances of the Angel of the Lord because God told Moses that he would die when he looked in His face, the first thing the angel said was “do not...

In contrast to a materialistic and rationalistic worldview, which was the result of the second world war, everything about our Christian life is supernatural. That means that our lives are natural with a huge degree of a supernatural element. Although certain parts of Christianity are trying to de-mythologize the Bible, in fact the whole Bible is about God’s miraculous and supernatural involvement...

It is said that man can survive for about 40 days without food, 3 days without water, about 8 minutes without air, but only for 1 second without hope. The Bible says that hope does not disappoint because it is linked to the love of God. The Greek word used in the New Testament for hope is translated as anticipating, usually with pleasure. When we are downcast, praising God is a very powerful weapo...

We as Christians are needed here on earth and for us to have the impact we have been called to; we need to fearlessly, daily, jump into the river of God and experience our own personal revival. The narrative of the Bible starts in Genesis with a river and ends in the Book of Revelation with a river. Jesus is the foundation stone, the source from which the living water, which is flowing from the te...

Moses could not look at the glory of God, but we look at His glory in the unveiled face of Christ and are being transformed from glory to glory. The glory of the Law was a fading glory but the glory which came through the cross is ever increasing. Jesus will appear or come to us when we are fully in glory - victorious, matured, and manifested sons of God. He is not coming to a battered, bruised, a...

The purpose of the age of the Law (2nd world) was to testify, introduce and prepare for Jesus. The second world came to an end and the 3rd world started to be introduced when Jesus died on the cross. From the time Jesus died until 70 AD was a generation and is called the period of the “patience of Christ” because God was patient with the Israelites, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to re...