Command your Faith Ministries

Good afternoon my dear friends. I pray you are having a wonderful day...studying and rightly dividiing the Holy Word of God.

I was pondering the Holy Word of God and heard this word in my spirit...so I began to write and this poem was written..

Ths title is...Fire and brimstone

Today...there are many thieves...in heists
and they continue going after...their likes

The Gospel they hear...but don't shed a tear
and they run to and fro...without any fear

To them stealing from others is a way of life
and they're so wrong, yet build much strife

One day they'll stand before...their Judge
and all of their sin will be...a great smudge

Their sentence will show...they are all alone
for they'll be in a place...with Fire & brimstone

Written by Rev. Dr. Michael Dickson...23 June 2026 @ 1:50 pm. I pray you are blessed and encouraged in your walk of faith in Jesus Christ!

The Rev.

An expository examination of John 17 continued...

Good evening my friends...I pray you are having an awesome weekend with Jesus on this last weekend in May.

We shall continue our examination of John Chapter 17...with the Prayer of Jesus... beginning in verse 3...

3...And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Please take a very close look above...what do you see? You see Jesus making a very powerful statement...about life...

Jesus said...this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Please listen very carefully...do you see Philippians 2:6 in what Jesus said? In this one verse...

Jesus claimed to be equal with His Father in heaven...and thought it not robbery.

Not only was Jesus equal with His Father... but the Father also sent His only begotten Son... that whosoever believeth in him... should not perish but have everlasting life. See John 3:16.

You see...knowing God...represents a saving relationship with Him. Knowing of God only represents a non-saving knowledge of Him.

Secondly...only Knowing God...produces everlasting life. Knowing of God...leads to everlasting torment in hell & after Judgment the Lake of Fire...powerful isn't???

Let us continue now with John 17:4...

4...I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5...And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

Again...please take a very close look at what Jesus said above...what do you see?

What did Jesus do? While on earth...after being sent by...the Only True God...who was and still is...His Father in heaven...Jesus glorified His Father...how?

By doing...(performing)...and finishing the work His Father gave him to do.

Please listen very carefully...only a person who is...equal and sent...by another person can do the other person's work...the very same way... the other person would.

This point above is so very powerful and truly proves...without a shadow of a doubt... Jesus is who He claimed to be in John 8:58... Before Abraham was...I AM! See Exodus 3:14.

Biblical proof...John 5:19...Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,

The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. See also John 14:10.

Now...take another very close look at what Jesus said in verse 5...Jesus said...And now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self with the glory I had with thee before the world was.

Please pay very close attention here. Jesus specifically mentions...the Father only...here in verse 5 by stating...

O Father, glorify me with thine own self...this is only one person...with the Glory I had with thee...before the world was.

Do you see this? Jesus was not only equal and sent by His Father in heaven...but Jesus had the very same glory His Father had before He was sent.

This literally proves Jesus existed before the world was...and was with the Father in heaven and had the same glory. See John 1:1.

The Bible says...IN THE beginnning was the Word...and the Word was with God...and the Word was with God. See also Genesis 1:1.

Isn't this powerful??? Now I will share with you another point...why did Jesus mention only His Father alone? Why not include the 3rd person of the Holy Trinity...the Holy Spirit?

Here is the powerful answer. God is one God in three persons...yes He is...but the Holy Spirit wasn't mentioned here because...

The Holy Spirit was in the position of the comforter. Yes the Holy Spirit has all of the attributes of the Father and the Son... including the Glory as well...

But in the position...as the comforter...He was not mentioned...and after Jesus departed this earth...He sent the Comforter who is the Holy Spirit. See John 14:26.

John 14:26...But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Now...once again...the position of the comforter does not lesson the Power of the Holy Spirit. No? No. I will show you...

2 Thessalonians 2:7...For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

The Holy Spirit has the very same power as the Father and the Son...because the Holy Spirit keeps the devil at bay...for a time.

As we all know...there is evil in the world...but there is coming a day...people on earth will wish the Holy Spirit operated the way He did in the Church age.

When the end of that time comes...the Holy Spirit is taken out of the way...and the Church is taken to heaven...then...all hell breaks loose...indeed so.

I pray you are blessed and encouraged in your walk of faith in Jesus Christ. Have a good evening and sleep in peace.

The Rev.