Rob Rufus on Glorious End-Time Worship

"How essential it is, right now as we stand at the consummation of the ages, as history is about to be summed up and concluded in Christ, that we be captured and capitulate to the beauty of our God. We will certainly see mass repentance among the lost if we would cut away everything that caters for us and invite the Spirit of God to take us into a realm of glory reserved for a ‘last days people’".

Rob Rufus - "Who Does Worship Cater To?" - "Let's Talk" NCMI Magazine - Issue 66.

Rob Rufus on Experiencing Conciousness of Sin

"If we impute sin to ourselves (despite being legally under the righteousness of Christ) then it will still exist in our own conciousness and will still have the same effects as if we actually WERE under sin - condemnation, guilt and so on".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 11" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 23rd March 2008.

Rob Rufus on "Moral People"

"So you have got moral people in the Church who don't raise the dead, who don't see signs, wonders and miracles, they don't lead others to Christ - they are morally good people but inside they are full of dead men's bones, full of death, fear, guilt, condemnation and they are powerless because the Gospel has been falsely preached as right living when it is, in fact, right BELIEVING".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 11" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 23rd March 2008

Jerry Bridges on the Sin of Doctrinal Pride

"If your Calvinism or Arminianism or dispensationalism or views concerning the end times or your disdain for all doctrinal beliefs causes you to feel doctrinally superior to those who hold other views then you are probably guilty of the sin of doctrinal pride".

Jerry Bridges - "Respectable Sins - Confronting the Sins We Tolerate" - Navpress (2007) - (p92).

Bill Johnson on Invading the Impossible

"He has the right to expect the fruit of the impossible from those He has created for the impossible. The Spirit of the resurrected Christ living in me has disqualified me from the mundane and the ordinary. I am qualified for the impossible because I am a believing believer. Faith qualifies me for the impossible".

Bill Johnson - "Dreaming with God" - Destiny Image Publishers, Shippensburg, PA (2006) - p177.

Bill Johnson on the Kingdom of God and Seasons of the Spirit

"His Kingdom only knows increase and acceleration. It is the hunger of God's people that helps accelerate the process of development and growth and actually speeds up time. It is my conviction that God is trying to get rid of our excuse concerning "seasons". Many have lived in spiritual winter for most of their lives and called it 'God's dealings'. The metaphor of the seaons have become an excuse for moodiness, unbelief, depression, inactivity and the like. It must end.

There is a message for us in the cursed fig tree. Jesus cursed it for not bearing fruit out of season. It died immediately. Was He unreasonable? Did He lose His temper? Or was He showing us something about His expectations for our lives that we'd just as soon ignore? He has the right to expect the fruit of the impossible from those He has created for the impossible".

Bill Johnson - "Dreaming with God" - Destiny Image Publishers, Shippensburg, PA (2006) - p176-177.

Bill Johnson on the Prophetic Holy Spirit

"One of the assignments of the Holy Spirit is to let us know what is to come. If you read commentaries and various reference materials, you will notice most think the promise of knowing what's coming is all about us being aware of coming calamities. Theologians tend to focus on problems because few truly believe in the glorious church. Everyone from world leaders to musicians, to actors and business leaders are telling us of coming calamities. We don't need the Holy Spirit for that purpose when people without God can do it. Rather we need Him to see the coming glory!".

Bill Johnson - "Dreaming with God" - Destiny Image Publishers, Shippensburg, PA (2006) - p136.

Bill Johnson on Giving Away What You Receive

"Give away what you have already received. Never underestimate what hungry people can "pull" from you while you minister the Word. Being in a place of continual giving is a sure way of getting more".

Bill Johnson - "Dreaming with God" - Destiny Image Publishers, Shippensburg, PA (2006) - p133.

Bill Johnson on Anointing and Revelation

"Revelation means 'to lift the veil' or 'remove the cover'. Revelation gives us access to the realms of greater anointing available to us to make that truth a personal experience and lifestyle. The greater the truth, the greater the anointing needed to demonstrate that truth to the world. Anointing must be pursued not assumed (see 1 Cor 14:1). The measure of anointing that we carry reveals the measure of revelation we actually live in".

Bill Johnson - "Dreaming with God" - Destiny Image Publishers, Shippensburg, PA (2006) - p131.

Bill Johnson on Revelation

"Revelation is not poured out to make us smarter. Insight is a wonderful benefit of this encounter but our intelligence is not God's primary concern. His focus in revelation is our personal transformation. Revelation leads to a God encounter and that encounter forever changes us. The encounters can be stunning experiences or the simple moments of being immersed in His peace; but they are markers along the journey of "Thy Kingdom Come". Without the encounter, revelation makes us proud".

Bill Johnson - "Dreaming with God" - Destiny Image Publishers, Shippensburg, PA (2006) - p130.

Rob Rufus on Luke 11:28-30 (the older brother)

"Now that is a commentary on the tragedy of the modern Church. There are millions of church goers who know all ABOUT God and are working hard to IMPRESS God but have never let the Father impress them. They are missing party after party and divine encounter after divine encounter and supernatural manifestation after supernatural manifestation because they are working so hard to impress God".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 10" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 15th March 2008

Rob Rufus on Preaching the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

"When the Resurrection is preached not just as a historical fact, not just as doctrine but when it is preached with apostolic revelation of how the power of the resurrection relates to daily living then you will see much grace come upon the Church and great power for the miraculous will be manifested in the Church".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 11" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 23rd March 2008

Rob Rufus on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

"The Resurrection is more than a historical fact, it's more than a doctrine - it has to be a daily life experience".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 11" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 23rd March 2008

Rob Rufus on God Allowing Sickness

"He never uses sickness to sharpen our character - He HEALS sickness!".

Rob Rufus - "The Power of the Authoritative Command - Part 1" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 10th September 2006

Isi de Gersigny on the Body of Christ

"We are not just taking the edge of His garment because we want to be healed - we are grabbing His garment because we are part of His Body and wherever He moves as do we".

Isi de Gersigny in Fini de Gersigny - "The Father's Love" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 21st October 2007

Rob Rufus on Authentic New Testament Christianity

"I am going to be authentic New Testament Book of Acts Christianity because everything else, anything else is an offence to the Throne of God, is an offence to the Cross, is an insult to the finished work of the Cross - it is not authentic, it is a substitute".

Rob Rufus in Fini de Gersigny - "The Father's Love" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 21st October 2007

Rob Rufus on Defining Miracles

"Miracles are God coming down out of His realm - the faith realm - and into our realm - the reason realm - and doing things that are NORMAL in His realm but ABNORMAL in ours. Miracles are God intervening to meet a human need by means of a supernatural means of power".

Rob Rufus - "Power Of Authoratative Command For Healing - Part 1" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 10th September 2006

Rob Rufus on the Great Commission

"He never said pray for the sick - He said heal the sick".

Rob Rufus - "Power Of Authoratative Command For Healing - Part 1" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 10th September 2006

Rob Rufus on the Power of the Authoritative Command

"If you want to see a dramatic increase in miracles through your life, STOP doing what most of the Church is doing and praying for the sick and start releasing the power of authoritative healing commands. There is a place to pray for the sick but I can only find one verse in the whole Bible! Jesus didn't tell us to go into the world and ask Him to do what He told us to do".

Rob Rufus - "Power Of Authoratative Command For Healing - Part 1" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 10th September 2006

Rob Rufus on Vision and Christian Life

"Until you see something clearly you can't possess it, you can't gain inheritance of it. Until you see the invisible, you can't do the impossible".

Rob Rufus - "Power Of Authoratative Command For Healing - Part 1" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 10th September 2006

Rob Rufus on the Word of God

"This is a supernatural book - God-breathed - we have no doubt that everything in it is alive and vibrating with divine life".

Rob Rufus - "Power Of Authoratative Command For Healing - Part 1" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 10th September 2006

Rob Rufus on Normal New Covenant Life

"I will ask God a question and He will answer - normal New Covenant behaviour. You don't need the voice of a prophet to hear the voice of God!".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible 10" - City Church International - 15th March 2008

Rob Rufus on a Visitation from God

"I had what I can only describe as a visitation from God - and God likes doing that because He likes me and He enjoys me so He came and visited me!".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible 10" - City Church International - 15th March 2008

Rob Rufus on the Purpose of the New Covenant

"The primary purpose of the New Covenant was that every believer will know God experientially".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible 10" - City Church International - 15th March 2008

Rob Rufus on Letting God Impress Us

“Son I long for the day when My people will stop trying to impress Me. I long for the day when My people will let Me impress them. I am not impressed with man’s rituals and ceremonies. I long for the day when man will be impressed with the gift of righteousness I have given them and believe it!”

Rob Rufus - Invading the Impossible 10 - City Church International - 15 March 2008

Terry Virgo on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Ascension

"Every person filled with the Holy Spirit is a proof and demonstration that Jesus Christ is not a corpse in some cave in the Middle East. Every Christian filled with the Holy Spirit is proof that He ascended on high!".

Terry Virgo - "The King has Come!" - Session 1 - Stoneleigh Bible Week 2000

Rob Rufus on Spiritual Diet

"Truth takes hours listening to it and studying it and being under the influence of it. F W Bosworth says; "Most Christians are so weak because they eat 3 physical meals a day but they take one cold spiritual snack a weak. If you fed your body only one small snack a week - just think how weak your body would be. No wonder your spirit is so weak because you are not listening to tapes, videos and DVDs on a daily basis - feeding your spirit the Word of God so you can handle these things".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 9" - "Invading Through Reigning" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 9th March 2008.

Rob Rufus on How Faith Comes and Goes

"So faith comes by hearing the Word of God - but faith goes by hearing the word of law, rules and religion. Faith goes by just watching TV or hearing bad news. Faith goes by listening to backslidden Christians who are bitter and twisted and cynical and unimpressed and oppressed".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 9" - "Invading Through Reigning" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 9th March 2008.

Rob Rufus on Daily Faith

"Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Any person on the planet who is walking with faith - you know they are listening to CD's, that someone is listening to tapes and DVD's on a regular basis - because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Faith goes by not hearing and hearing the wrong things. Faith is like Vitamin C - you cannot store it for long. You take it today and you are going to need to take it tomorrow because you don't store it for long. Faith can be used today but it will need to be replenished by hearing and the hearing of the word of righteousness.

Because when you use your faith to see a miracle happen, you use your faith for a marriage problem or for a demand or a challenge, then that faith is depleted. And you know that if you keep drawing out of your bank account without putting back in then the day will come when they will say if you keep drawing out of your bank account then you will go to jail. Do you know what a nervous breakdown is? A nervous breakdown is a sign that you are in a faith overdraft and there is nothing left in their account because they have not put faith back in. Faith comes by daily hearing the Word of God".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 9" - "Invading Through Reigning" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 9th March 2008.

Rodney Howard-Browne on Cerebral vs Faith

"Jesus also wants to use us to do miracles, but it will not happen unless we are obedient. We cannot argue with Him or question His judgment; we must simply commit to obey what He tells us to do. Many Christians want God to use them in a mighty way, but they are too full of opinions, questions, reasonings, and arguments! They say that they have faith, but they really don't because they will not make a move without an explanation. They want to understand everything before they do what God is telling them to do. They want to give God their
opinion. They want to tell Him why it won't work!

The greatest demonstration of your faith is when you simply believe that any word God speaks to you is true; when you trust God enough to do what He has told you to do without expecting Him to reveal everything to you first; when you trust God enough to do what He has told you to do without needing to have it all figured out in your head. The things God asks you to do may not make sense to your carnal mind and they don't
need to".

Rodney Howard-Browne - "Whatever He Says to You - Do It" - Revival Ministries website - downloaded 12th March 2008.

Bill Johnson on True Faith and Invading the Impossible

"My faith is not just an abiding faith; it is active. It is aggressive by nature. It has focus and purpose. Faith grabs hold of the reality of the Kingdom and forcefully and violently brings it into a collision with this natural one. An inferior kingdom cannot stand.

One of the more common things people tell me when I’m about to pray for their healing is, I know God can do it. So does the devil. At best that is hope…not faith. Faith knows He will. For one who has faith, there is nothing impossible. There are no impossibilities when there is faith…and there are no exceptions".

Bill Johnson - FAITH- Anchored in the Unseen" - Bill Johnson Ministries website - downloaded 12th March 2008

Bill Johnson on Excesses of Many who have feared the excesses made by others in the name of faith have ironically embraced unbelief. Reaction to Faith

"Many who have feared the excesses made by others in the name of faith have ironically embraced unbelief. Reaction to error usually produces error. Response to truth always wins out over those who react to error. Some people would have no belief system were it not for the error of others. Their thoughts and teachings are the antithesis of what others believe and practice. As a result those who strive for balance become anemic. The word balance has come to mean middle of the road—of no threat to people or the devil, with little risk, and above all…the best way to keep our nice image intact".

Bill Johnson - "FAITH- Anchored in the Unseen" - Bill Johnson Ministries website - downloaded 12 March 2008.

Rob Rufus on the Control Spirit in Church

"If the Holy Spirit is not allowed to have control of the church, then man takes control of the church and the biggest leverage man has to control the church is the law - legalism - controls people to behave by putting rules and regulations and then kicking them out and punishing them if they don't line up with the taboos and laws and rules".

Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 8" - City Church International, Hong Kong -

Ryan Rufus on Dreams

"Joseph took his dreams seriously - that is what unlocked the future".

Ryan Rufus - "Unlocking Your Ability To Hear God Through Dreams" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 23rd December 2007.

Rob Rufus on a Life Mixed with Law and Grace

"A mixture of law and grace, of Old Covenant and New Covenant life is a mongrel religion. God wants you to have the pure pedigree of the Old Covenant condemnation or the pure pedigree of the New Covenant grace. Have a look at people who are living under a mixture of law and grace or under law - see how miserable their lives are, see how easily they are offended, get judgemental, become weird and imbalanced. Look at people who live under grace and you see imperfect people who make mistakes but you will see an authority and authenticity and integrity in them. You will see a power in their lives, intimacy with God with a balanced life".

Rob Rufus - "How To Have Jesus Single You Out In A Crowd" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 20th May 2007.

John Piper on the Law

"1. The Law in it's narrow, short-term design demands perfectly the 613 commandments of the Pentateuch in order to have life ... 2. The recipients of this law (Israel and indirectly all the Gentiles) are uniformly sinful and hostile to God. They do not submit to God and cannot ... 3. The effect of this law on sinful Israel when she is confronted with hundreds of commandments is the awareness of latent sin (Romans 7:7), the increase of sin by it's becoming exceedingly sinful and the multiplication of trangressions (Romans 5:20, 7:13).

4. This narrow, short-term design is expressed in Galatians 3:22 - the effect of this design of the law is to kill rather than to make alive ... 5. All of this deadly design of the law is sufficient to warrant the statement in Galatians 3:12 ... The narrow short-term design of the law is imprisonment to sin, multiplied transgressions and death".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (pp197-198).

John Piper on Radical, Grace Living

"What makes radical, risk-taking, sacrificial, Christ-exalting works of love possible is the fact that Christ's perfect obedience (counted as our righteousness) and Christ's perfect sacrifice (counted as our punishment) secured completely the glorious reality that God is for us as an omnipotent Father who works all things together for our everlasting joy in Him".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p187).

John Piper on Grace vs Law

"If we make the mistake of thinking that our works of love (the fruit of God's Spirit) secure or increase God's commitment to be completely for us now, and in the last judgement, we compromise the very reason that these works of love exist, namely to display the infinite worth of Christ and His work as our all-sufficient obedience and all-sufficient sacrifice".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p186).

John Piper on Our Only Hope For Christian Living

"Our only hope for living the radical demands of the Christian life is that God is totally for us now and forever. Therefore, God has not ordained that living the Christian life should be the basis of our hope that God is for us. That basis is the death and righteousness of Christ, counted as ours through faith alone. On the cross Christ endured for us all the punishment required of us because of our sin. And in order that God as our Father, might be completely for us and not against us forever, Christ has performed for us, in His perfect obedience to God, all that God required of us as the ground of His being totally for us forever".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p184).

John Piper on Imputation

"Imputation is not the conferring of a status without a ground of real imputed moral righteousness. It is the counting of an alien, real, moral, perfect righteousness, namely Christ's as ours".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p171).

John Piper on Romans 5:18-19

"Notice the main point about justification in verse 18: It happens to all who are connected to Christ the same way condemnation happened to those who were connected to Adam. How is that? Adam acted sinfully and because we were connected to him, we were condemned in him. Christ acted righteously and because we are connected to Christ we are justified in Christ. Adam's sin is counted as ours. Christ's "act of righteousness" is counted as ours".

John Piper - "Counted Righteous in Christ: Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness?" - IVP, Nottingham (2002) - (p107-108).

John Piper on Justification

"God counts us as having His righteousness in Christ because we are united to Christ by faith alone. That is, we are counted as perfectly honouring and displaying the glory of God, which is the essence of God's righteousness and which is also a perfect fulfilling of the law. This is what God imputes to us and counts us as having because we are in Christ who perfectly honoured God in His sinless life. It is not nonsense. It is true and precious beyond words".

John Piper - "The Future of Justification - A Response to N T Wright" - IVP, Nottingham (2008) - (p165).

Rob Rufus on the Cross

"The sign of the Cross carries no power - what happened on the Cross is where the power is".

Rob Rufus - "The Awesome Anointing over the Breaking of Bread (Communion)" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 6th May 2007.

Terry Virgo on Freedom to Risk All

"Grace should never lead to passivity, but to outrageous adventure, a lifestyle that baffles those who play safe. It threatens the status quo not only of tentative religion, but of cynical unbelief. It sets the church free to risk all for the praise of him who freely gave all for us."

Terry Virgo - God's Lavish Grace - Monarch - 2004 - p185

Don Carson on Freedom from Rules

Commenting on Philippians 1v9-10:

"Paul refuses to set up an arbitrary set of checkpoints against which Christians are to measure themselves; he refuses to erect hoops through which believers must jump. Rather, he simply prays to his heavenly Father and asks him that these believers may pursue what is best."

D A Carson - A Call to Spiritual Reformation - Baker - 1992
(Quoted by Terry Virgo - God's Lavish Grace - Monarch - 2004 - p136)

Terry Virgo on Grace and Gifts

"If you are in Christ, his righteousness not only saves you, it also qualifies you to receive amazing gifts of the Holy Spirit."

Terry Virgo - God's Lavish Grace - Monarch - 2004 - p92

Rob Rufus on Prayer

"Prayer administrates the power of the finished work of the Cross into the nations".

Rob Rufus - "The Supernatural Operation of the Gifts of the Spirit - The Presence of the Glory" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 17th March 2007.

Rob Rufus on Receiving Gifts of the Holy Spirit

"When the anointing and the glory are radiating through the Church, it is so easy to access downloads of divine information".

Rob Rufus - "The Supernatural Operation of the Gifts of the Spirit - The Presence of the Glory" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 17th March 2007.

Rob Rufus on Teaching on the Gifts of the Spirit

"I think we have got it back to front - we try and teach and define the gifts and think everyone will start doing the gifts. No, no - what we must do is activate what releases the gifts in the church and then when there is enough people moving in the gifts and there is holy pandemonium and chaos and everyone is doing the gifts, we can say; "Ok now fantastic! We need not to calm it down but just find wisdom and administration for it".

Rob Rufus - "The Supernatural Operation of the Gifts - The Presence of the Glory" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 11th March 2007.