Alpha Healing Center

 What Did Jesus Say About  Hell?

Teaching at DLTC

by Billie Johnson, May 9, 2009

We are going to look at a subject that is not taught much in churches. We need to know what the Bible says as there are many erroneous ways of thinking prevalent today.  Thank you, Shirley for giving me this book by Gordon Lindsay on The Life & Teachings of Christ; Volume 2 Christ Teaches His apostles.  It has helped me think more clearly about death.  Most people are interested in what happens after we die.  Some questions we ponder:  are the dead conscious?  If they are, under what conditions do they exist?  Many people believe in life beyond the grave (immortality) -- but there are different opinions about what happens.  The Bible is the only authority  which tells us the truth about life after death.                      

 “WASHING OF WATER BY THE WORD”

Teaching given by Billie Johnson

At Dominion Living Training Center

March 28, 2009         

The title is taken from our main scripture.  The washing of the water by the word: w and w w.  It’s a little hard to say but the scripture is Eph 5:26 where Jesus makes a comparison between Christ and the church and the place of a husband and his wife.   Christ made the church holy by the washing of his Word, he cleansed it from sin.  The most usual way of talking about getting rid of sin is to be cleansed from it; to be washed.           

  IF THE SPIRIT

Teaching by Billie Johnson

 at DLTC, Feb 28, 2009

Romans 8:11 amp  “And if the spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you[ then] He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your moral (short-lived, perishable) bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.”           The spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in me! He lives in us!  When Jesus’ body was dead, in the tomb, the Holy Spirit was still ALIVE in that body even though the body was not alive the Holy Spirit was!  He was the energy, the life giving power that caused life to be restored to Jesus’ body –resurrected – come back to life.          God is spirit, the immortal, Spirit which never dies. Ps 45:6 says “Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever.”  He lives forever.  Jesus, after his coming back to life transferred that Spirit to his disciples.  Then they transferred Him to us as well, down through the centuries of time.  The body is of the earth, it dies, but the spirit is from heaven it lives eternally.  It doesn’t go back to dust as the body does because it is not made from dust.  The spirit was given to Adam through the breath of God! Genesis 2:7 says  And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Other words for spirit are Pneuma, breath, life.  If we have no breath, there is no life in our bodies.  When I saw a child who has stopped breathing she didn’t even look like a person, she looked like a doll.  Her face was ashen, no color there.  After she was resurrected I watched the color come back into her face and saw the life in her.  God’s spirit is beyond time.  Genesis 1:2 says   “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. He was over the face of the waters as he created the earth.  He has been here before all things and when all things are no longer here he will still be here.  We know the verse, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever” from Hebrews 13:8       

TRUTH IN THE WORD

Teaching at DLTC

by Don Johnson, 12/27/08        

  I will use a true life experience as an example of what I would like to get across in this teaching.   It was very vivid when I was praying about it. We lived in a small town with just about 3000 people when I was growing up and every body knew most everybody else.  They knew who I was and knew what I was doing.  If I did something, good or bad, the news of it reached home before I got there.  You learn how to be careful of what you do.  I’ll give you a little background.  My parents owned a dairy and operated it along with my Uncle and Aunt.  This was just before the end of World War II.  It was in 1944 that my parents bought the dairy. Rationing started in 1940. Food was still rationed then and you could not go down to the store and get anything that you wanted as we do now.  There are not too many people now that know what rationing was.  You might say it is kind of food stamps. You had stamps and you could only get certain things on certain days at a certain time.  You couldn’t go and get what you wanted.  One of the things was butter. It was something you very seldom saw in the store as well as sugar.  Being on the dairy, we had all the milk and butter that we wanted.  My Mom substituted honey for sugar.  We had plenty of honey from my grandfather on my mother’s side.  My grandfather rented to a farmer who raised bees up on the north end of the box canyon on the Hassayampa River.  So part of the rent payment was honey.  My Mother was a very good cook and I think she put Julia Childs to shame and that was without the wine!  She was always baking. Around our house there was always something being made that was good for your palate and we had a big feast.  That was the way she was raised and that's what we had.