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A Time to Remember

A Time to Remember

July 12, 2026 · Rev Jude Jesso

MESSAGE SUMMARY

Filling in for the regular pastor (away on a well-deserved break), Rev Jude Jesso preached "A Time to Remember," built around the question of why believers need constant reinforcement of truths they already know. His answer: "we have leaks" — worldly philosophy and the adversary's fog-the-mind tactics wear away at what we know, so Scripture commands active, repeated remembering (a word he notes appears roughly 250 times in the Bible). He anchored the message in 2 Peter 1:12-13, Peter's final letter written from Rome under Nero's persecution shortly before his martyrdom, where Peter says he will "not be negligent" to keep stirring believers up by putting them in remembrance of what they already know. Jesso paired this with Deuteronomy 8:1-2, where Israel is commanded to remember the 40 years of wilderness discipline before entering the inheritance, framing remembrance as foundational to both covenants.

The message developed in three points. First, remember what God has already done — our redemption from slavery to sin, illustrated with Ephesians 2:12 and Psalm 103's benefits (forgiveness, healing, redemption from the pit), and Jesso's own testimony of his salvation at an altar call in November 1981. Second, remember the price paid for salvation — the physical brutality of the cross, grounded in Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 1:18-20, stressing that grace, though free, "still costs us something" (quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer against "cheap grace"). Third, remember who we are in Christ — chosen, blessed, and seated with Him (Ephesians 1:3-4, Colossians 3:1-3), which should reshape identity, worship, and daily focus.

He closed by tying remembrance to worship, God's promises (Jeremiah 29:11), and God's unwavering love (1 John 4:9-10, quoting C.S. Lewis on love resting on God's promises rather than shifting feelings), urging the church to trust and obey and to let their lives preach even without words (quoting Francis of Assisi).

SCRIPTURES REFERENCED

  • 2 Peter 1:12-13 The sermon's anchor text; Peter's resolve to keep reminding believers of truths they already know, written near his martyrdom
  • Deuteronomy 8:1-2 Israel commanded to remember 40 years of wilderness discipline before possessing the land
  • John 14:26 The Holy Spirit as Helper who "brings to remembrance" all that Christ said
  • Psalm 103:17-18 The Lord's steadfast love "from everlasting to everlasting" for those who keep His covenant
  • Ephesians 2:12 Remembering being "separated from Christ," excluded and without hope before salvation
  • Psalm 103:2-5 "Forget not all his benefits" — forgiveness, healing, redemption from the pit, renewal like the eagle
  • 1 Samuel 17 Referenced by name (David and Goliath); exact verse not cited; used to illustrate confidence in identity
  • 1 Peter 1:18-20 Redeemed not with silver and gold but with the precious blood of Christ, foreordained before the foundation of the world
  • Isaiah 53:5 Christ pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, by His stripes we are healed
  • 2 Chronicles 20 Referenced by name (Jehoshaphat sending the choir ahead of the army); exact verse not cited; used to illustrate the power of worship
  • Ephesians 1:3-4 Blessed with every spiritual blessing, chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world
  • Colossians 3:1-3 Seek the things above; your life is hidden with Christ in God
  • Romans 1:20 God's invisible attributes clearly perceived in creation, leaving humanity without excuse
  • Jeremiah 29:11 God's plans to prosper and not harm, to give hope and a future
  • 1 John 4:9-10 God's love made manifest in sending His Son as the propitiation for our sins

Last Week's Messages

Healing — Part 3

Healing — Part 3

July 8, 2026 · Pastor Brian Charles

MESSAGE SUMMARY

Continuing the "Healing" series into Part 3, Pastor Brian Charles shifts focus from receiving healing to maintaining it — teaching how believers appropriate and sustain healing through the spoken Word of God rather than through feelings. He anchors the message in the seed principle from the previous week: the Word is the incorruptible seed, the heart is the soil, and the mouth is the "seed dispenser." Drawing on Job 22:28 and Proverbs 18:21, he teaches that believers are called to decree and declare God's Word over their lives daily — describing his own practice of confessing scripture at least four times a week as "maintenance ministry," including breaking "time-released curses," declaring immunity from disease (Exodus 23:25), and reversing wrongly spoken words through "crop failure" declarations.

He works through a chain of scriptures on the healing power of the tongue and the Word (Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 4:20-23, Joshua 1:8), Christ's identification with human weakness (Hebrews 4:14-15), and the believer's covenant right to health (3 John 2, Galatians 3:13). A substantial section addresses overcoming fear and negative reports — contrasting Caleb and Joshua's faith with the unbelief of the other ten spies, and defining fear as "having faith in what Satan is saying and getting what he offers."

He shares personal testimony about his call to ministry, being baptized in the Holy Spirit after an extended season of praying in tongues, and receiving a vision confirming his calling despite having no formal credentials — recalling God telling him, "I am your credentials." The message closes with an extended list of personal confessions for long life, health, and freedom from generational curses, urging listeners to build their own set of scripture-based declarations rather than relying on emotion, tradition, or others' opinions, and ends with an appeal that God's gifts and calling remain "without repentance" even for those who have drifted from Him.

SCRIPTURES REFERENCED

  • Mark 4:8, 20 The seed producing 30, 60, and 100-fold depending on the soil
  • Job 22:28 "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee"
  • Psalm 118:24 "This is the day the Lord hath made"
  • Psalm 122:1 "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord"
  • Proverbs 18:21 "Death and life are in the power of the tongue"
  • 2 Corinthians 11:14 Satan transforming himself into "an angel of light"
  • Proverbs 12:18 "The tongue of the wise is health" — unpacked via the Hebrew marpeh (medicine, cure, deliverance, remedy)
  • Proverbs 4:20-23 "Attend to my words... health to all their flesh... keep thy heart with all diligence"
  • Joshua 1:8 "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth... meditate therein day and night"
  • Jeremiah 1:12 "I will hasten my word to perform it"
  • Hebrews 4:14 "A great high priest who has passed through the heavens"
  • Hebrews 4:15 Jesus "touched with the feelings of our infirmities"
  • Revelation 12:11 Overcoming "by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony"
  • 1 Corinthians 14:33 "God is not the author of confusion"
  • Deuteronomy 28 The blessings of obedience and curse of the broken law
  • Galatians 3:13 "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law"
  • Exodus 23:25 "He will... take sickness away from the midst of thee"
  • 3 John 2 "I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health"
  • 2 Timothy 3:16-17 "All scripture is given by inspiration... that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped"
  • Psalm 91:16 "With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation"
  • Isaiah 46:4 (Amplified) "Even to my old age will I carry you"
  • Psalm 21:4 "He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him... for ever and ever"
  • Psalm 92:15 "I am a living memorial to show that the Lord is upright and faithful to his promises" (personal paraphrase)
  • Numbers 13-14 Caleb and Joshua's faith contrasted with the unbelief of the other ten spies
  • Psalm 103:5 / Deuteronomy 34:7 "My youth is renewed like the eagles," blended with "natural strength abated" (of Moses)
  • Isaiah 40:8 "The grass withereth... but the word of our God shall stand forever"
  • Matthew 24:35 "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away"
  • John 1:14 "The word was made flesh and dwelt among us"
  • John 10:10 "The thief cometh... to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life... more abundantly"
  • Hebrews 6:12 "Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises"
  • Hebrews 11 Referenced generally as the "faith chapter"
  • Proverbs 28:5 "They that seek the Lord understand all things" (pastor noted uncertainty on exact verse)
  • 1 John 4:18 "Perfect love casteth out fear"
Healing — Part 2

Healing — Part 2

July 5, 2026 · Pastor Brian Charles

MESSAGE SUMMARY

Continuing the "Healing" series (Part 2), Pastor Brian Charles builds on last week's centurion account to teach that believers must have faith in both Jesus and His Word — faith is "activated" in Scripture, and the Word is "voice activated." He unpacks Psalm 129:3 as a prophetic picture of Christ's scourging, teaching that Jesus's stripes created a "furrow" for believers to sow seed for healing.

The central image of the message is the seed: the Word of God is the incorruptible seed, the mouth is the "seed dispenser," and sowing determines the harvest a believer lives in — physically, financially, and spiritually. He walks through the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:1-9) in detail, applying each soil type (wayside, stony, thorny, good ground) to conditions of the heart that either block or receive God's Word: hardness from unbelief, shallow emotional excitement without root, distraction and materialism choking growth, and a humble, obedient heart that produces fruit.

Illustrations include Smith Wigglesworth's healings and unshakeable faith, an anecdote about a man who sowed discord and was later diagnosed with cancer, and reflections on words as seeds that can bring either life or death. He teaches that sickness is demonic oppression, not God's discipline, and that healing was purchased at the cross and does not depend on "if it be God's will" prayers.

The message closes with the practice of decreeing God's Word (Job 22:28), Jesus cursing the fig tree at the root (Mark 11:23), and moves into communion, framed as participating in the anointing and the New Covenant secured by Christ's body and blood. He previews next Wednesday's message on decreeing as a continuation of this teaching.

SCRIPTURES REFERENCED

  • Matthew 8:10,13 Centurion's servant healed; "speak the word only," "so great faith," "so be it unto thee" (continuing last week's teaching)
  • Psalm 129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows — prophetic of Christ's scourging
  • 1 John 5:8 Three that bear witness — the Spirit, the water, and the blood
  • Acts 10:38 God anointed Jesus, healing all oppressed of the devil — sickness framed as demonic oppression
  • John 10:10 The thief comes to steal, kill, destroy; I am come that you might have life abundantly
  • Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God
  • Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart
  • Habakkuk 2:4 The just shall live by faith
  • Matthew 9:29 According to your faith be it unto you
  • Ephesians 6:11–13 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand — attributed to Paul
  • Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen
  • Genesis 26:12 Isaac sowed in famine and reaped a hundredfold — sowing despite circumstances
  • Galatians 6:7–8 Be not deceived, God is not mocked; whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap
  • John 3:6 That which is born of flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is spirit
  • Mark 4:1–9 Parable of the Sower, expounded at length — the four soils applied to conditions of the heart
  • John 8:32 Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free — quoted twice
  • Galatians 5:15 If ye bite and devour one another... — book cited, exact verse not stated
  • Acts 9:4 Why persecutest thou me? — Saul on the Damascus road; used to show unity of the body of Christ
  • Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
  • Matthew 6:33 Seek ye first the kingdom of God... all these things shall be added (cited verbally as 6:34)
  • Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
  • Job 22:28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee
  • Mark 11:23 Cursing the fig tree at the root; whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed
  • 1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?
  • Ephesians 5:30 We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones
  • 1 Corinthians 11:23–25 Words of institution for communion, quoted at length
  • John 15:5 Without me ye can do nothing
  • Proverbs 18:21 Life and death are in the power of the tongue