PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 137: THE POWER OF TRUTH
FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 137: The Power of Truth
Where does God want you to have truth? Should it be belted around your waist or girded around your loins? Check it out.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies. It's always great to be with you. So last week we were wondering what would happen about our election but now we know the news that Biden got in. So, now we have in our country an illegitimate president. Isn't that amazing? We could never imagine that.
I don't know how you felt. I was feeling so sad about it. But as I have continued to be in prayer, I am more encouraged, not that he is in, but believing that he won't be in for too long. I don't believe that we can continue to have an illegitimate president in the United States of America. It is unheard of.
So I do believe, ladies, that we must keep praying, keep believing, and keep trusting God that justice will come forth, because we cannot side with evil. Now, if it was legitimate, and even if we didn't like it, we must submit to that.
But this is not legitimate. He is illegal, illegitimate, fraudulent, and unconstitutional. Not only all these things, but this was also a foreign paid-for, and is a stolen, controlled administration. Biden is bought out and controlled by China which means they are trying to bring communism into this country.
Already we are seeing all the things he is trying to do to kill jobs, to stop the Keystone pipeline. He’s already stopped the construction of the Mexico border barrier. That's already stopped thousands and thousands of jobs that will be lost. Of course, that is their whole plan, to bring down people to poverty. So then that's how communism comes in.
Could you believe it? How he has already assigned a transgender person to a health post in his administration? I mean, that is such an abomination, that we now have a person who is transgender in our federal government. I mean, it is just unbelievable.
But as I was saying, it is also, it was foreign intervention, with the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, but also Cuba, the Vatican, Italy, UK, Venezuela, Iran, and Germany. They were all involved in different ways. For an election to take place with foreign intervention is treason.
So, dear precious ladies, I have been amazed to notice and see how many Christians are just acquiescing and thinking, “Oh well, this has happened, so now we have to get with it.” No, we don't! We cannot ever bow to evil! This is evil. It is treachery. It is treason. It is totally unconstitutional for this nation.
So don't give in to it. Don't give in! I keep believing for justice to happen. Pray. Stand up for truth. If everyone in this nation who is God-fearing and Bible-believing will not go with this, but will stand for truth, and will keep praying and keep in faith, I believe that we will see victory.
In fact, it's very interesting. You may have heard yourself, and I have only just heard about this, although this was about a prophecy that came forth from Kim Clement, who passed away just after Trump became president in 2016.
But back in 2007, he prophesied that Trump would become president, and he would have two terms. That was away back in 2007. Goodness, so long ago, and yet it came to pass. You can still look up and listen to it. It's pretty amazing.
And then there was another prophetic word that he gave in 2008. That there would be for a while, two presidents. Now isn't that unbelievable, that that's something that we are facing right now? Because we have, we have a legitimate president, President Trump, who won overwhelmingly. The evidence is more than overwhelming, that he won by so much.
And then we have an illegitimate president. Isn't that amazing? You can look that up, too. Just look up Kim Clement, 2008 prophetic word, and it will come up. And he says way back then, all those years ago:
“And they shall say, 'But now there is a second president. How can we have two presidents? An unusual thing, isn't it?' says the Spirit of the Lord. Why would it be that one with a double mind would stand up and face the people?
“No, they shall say, 'We have two presidents. What do we do now?' Fear not, for God said, 'As I have promised before, this is My nation, and I will change things according to the time and season. I told you now, in spring I will expose and reveal things that have been hidden, so that My nation can move into this next election, and to the phase with victory and honor and glory,' says the Lord of Hosts.”
Just before those words, he says, “I feel the Spirit of the Lord telling me to tell you there is a reason to have joy at this time. For many say this is the worst time ever in America. But the Spirit of God says, 'Who would declare a recession, and who would declare where I am going,' God says. 'This is the best time, because joy is coming to you in the spring,' says the Lord. 'Joy is coming to you in the spring. Therefore, I want you to prophesy,” and so on.
Well, OK, we'll see what happens. But that is interesting. I would like to think that we could hang onto that prophetic word, because it says that joy is coming in the spring. Maybe we've got to go through some times of praying, and intercession, and believing, and hanging on in faith, and trusting God for righteousness and justice. But let's do that. Let's pray and believe for joy to come in the spring. Amen?
Yes, we will not bow down. I think of that prophetic word that Balaam gave over the children of Israel. Do you remember the story when King Balak came to Balaam, and he said, “Come on, I want you to prophesy over these people. I want you to curse them!”
Actually he didn't really want him to prophesy. He wanted him to curse them, because King Balak could see all these people camped below his nation, and he was scared of them, and he wanted to eradicate them. So he got Balaam to come along, and you remember how even the donkey talked to him along the way. It's quite an amazing supernatural story, isn't it? Who could imagine a donkey talking?
But every single time Balaam went to curse the children of Israel, God spoke through him. And God spoke prophetic words, amazing prophetic words. You can read it through in those few chapters in Numbers 22 – 24.
But one of the prophecies God was speaking about the children of Israel, He says in Numbers 23:21-24: “The Lord His God is with him, and the shout of the king is among them; God brought them out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of a unicorn. Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”
Speaking about a time when Israel will rise up as a lion. We don't see that happening at the moment, but there is going to come that time, because every word of prophecy in the Word of God will be fulfilled.
God is already fulfilling so much prophetic word in Israel, as He has, for many years now, been bringing back His people from the four corners of the earth. They are causing the land of Israel to blossom like the rose, even the barren mountains of Samaria, which is really Judea, and the heartland of Israel, where the people of Israel first went into the land.
For many years it lay dormant and desolate, just rocks and stones. But now they're planting those mountains with vineyards and olive orchards, and it's just blossoming, and fulfilling the prophetic word of the Lord.
He said that aliens and strangers, would come and be “your vinedressers” on the hills of Samaria. Today, even now, dear friends of ours, the Waller family, take hundreds and thousands of workers out there to the West Bank to help harvest, and prune, and plant the vineyards over there, and possess that land again. All prophecy, all being fulfilled in our day.
This also will be fulfilled, but every word of the Lord, even when it's speaking absolutely, specifically, to Israel, is also . . . we can take that Word to us, God's people, to us, His redeemed grafted-in people. I believe that this is an hour when God wants us to rise up with a shout, to rise up with that lion-like spirit.
I remember reading something recently where someone quoted that last year was the year of the sheeple, where everybody was cowardly submitting to everything that was happening. But this year, 2021, is to be the year of the lion and God's people rising up for truth, and for righteousness, and for justice, and for everything that is the kingdom of God.
What did they say? What does it say here? “They will not lie down.” We cannot lie down and accept a fraudulent, illegitimate presidency. No!
Do you remember, just recently, that I did three sessions on hating evil? In fact, I found 20 different attitudes God wants us to have about evil, and how we are to abhor it, and cast it off, and not participate in it, and flee from it, and so on. Twenty different things. Go back and listen to them again. This should be our attitude about what is happening now in our nation.
Oh yes, I'm talking too, of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Remember when they were thrown into the fiery furnace because they would not bow? What did they say? Daniel 3:17-18: “Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.” They refused to bow. That's the spirit we must have. We refuse to bow. WE WILL NOT LIE DOWN.
All right. I'm getting back to talking to you about truth. Who are we listening to? Lies or truth? Well, first of all, I want to still read you a few more Scriptures. I want to go to John chapter 10. John 10, and this is Jesus speaking. It's the chapter of the good shepherd and of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, who is speaking.
In verse three, it says: “To him, the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.”
Now these are wonderful words of Jesus. They are a challenge to us. Dear precious mothers, and young people who are listening, whose voice are you most familiar with? Are you most familiar with hearing the Voice of the Lord? The Voice of Jesus? His Voice in your spirit?
Or is your mind cluttered and bombarded with the voice of strangers? That's the voice of the world, the voice of this world system, the voice of humanism, and feminism, and socialism, which fills our airways, and is all around us in society and in our education system.
It's all around us, and it's so easy for us to let it become part of us. But we have to be those who learn to listen to His Voice and to run from the voice of the stranger! So we don't listen to the fake media.
If you have CNN on, and all those fake media stations, you are listening to the voice of the stranger. And you will hear a foreign voice, a foreign voice. I am amazed at how so many people speak the language of the fake media. I mean, that's what comes out of their mouth. Obviously, that's what they listen to.
We're either listening to that junk or we're listening to our Savior, our Lord, through His Word. We've got to, we've just got to become filled with the Word if we want to be people of truth. And we're either going to be walking in truth, or walking in deception, according to what we hear or what we listen to.
So we've got to decide, lovely ladies, what we are going to listen to. And our precious children, oh my! They are susceptible to all these voices all around us. We've got to teach them how to listen to the Voice of the Lord and how to run from the voice of the stranger!
It's so important in our daily lives, to make sure we have our morning and our evening times when we gather as a family to listen to God's Word, to drink it in, to let His Word speak to us, to become filled with it. Because the more we're filled with it, the more we'll understand truth.
And then, when we hear deception, “Wow, oh goodness me, that doesn't sound right.” And why do we feel like that? Because the Word, the true eternal living Word is in us, and it blocks, it resists the deception. If we don't have the Word in us, well, we don't even know it's deception, and we just embrace it.
That is so important. Yes! Make sure your children are filled with the Word of God. So many homeschooled children, they come out of homes, beautiful, lovely, Christian homes, and have gone to church every Sunday, and they've been Christian homeschooled, and yet they still don't really truly know the Word. They know more about a load of other stuff than they know God's Word. For not only should it be in them, but it's got to be coming out of them. That's when we know we've got it in us, don't we?
OK, what is John 17:3 saying when Jesus is speaking again? And He says: “And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” This really should be our whole aim in life, to know Him and to make Him known. But we've got to know Him, don't we?
Let's go to Ephesians, chapter six. You're familiar with Ephesians 6:10: “Finally my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye might be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”
And now it talks about putting on the armor. What is the first piece of armor God wants us to put on? The very first one? Let's look at it. “Wherefore take unto thee whole armor of God.”
Verse 14: “Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.” Truth! Truth is the first piece of armor we have to put on. We've got to have that tight and secure before we can put on any of the rest of the armor. If we haven't got truth, well, we haven't got the foundation for everything else.
Isn't it amazing? I just love the Word of God. With God, nothing is airy fairy. Everything is just right. God always starts with first things first. And the very first thing is truth. Ladies, we've got to be women of truth. We have to be mothers of truth. For if we are not mothers of truth, how can we pass that truth on to our children? Don't we want our children to be children of truth?
What does it say in 3 John? Let's go over to it. 3 John, verse 4: “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” Is that your vision, dear mother? Your longing? “I have no greater joy (nothing more that I want) than to hear that my children walk in truth.”
To see that happen, we have got to be mothers of truth, who know the truth, who live in the truth, who are filled with the truth, who love the truth, and we impart this truth to our children. This is what makes a nation of truth because EVERYTHING COMES BACK TO THE MOTHERS!
Dear mothers, we are the ones who are determining the course of the nation. The next generation comes out of our homes. Will they be children of deception who will be taken in with all the deception around them? Or will they be children of truth who will bring truth back into the nation?
Sadly, the youth of our nation are mostly deceived today. They're going to our public schools and then our colleges, which are places of deception, where our young people are being totally brainwashed by the deceptions of humanism, feminism, socialism, communism! Yes, they are being taught communism. Our young people want communism. They are so brainwashed they have no idea what communism is all about. They don't understand it.
It's time I think we played them a few movies like maybe Schindler's List. I mean, have your children seen Schindler's List? I certainly wouldn't show it to young children. But if you have young people, they need to see it. They need to see some of these movies of really what happened through communism, and through all this kind of thing, and how it devastated nations, and brought them to poverty. More people have been killed through this than anything else. I mean, let's be mothers who fill our children with truth.
GOD STARTS AT THE CENTER
Now, OK, where do we have truth? This is amazing, too. I mean, God thinks so differently to us. We would think, “OK, truth! Now, we'd better put on the helmet of truth!” Nooo. It's the helmet of salvation. God talks about having truth in our loins. Wow! It's right in the very center of our being. God starts in the center!
Truth, He wants us to have truth, not just in our mind, because we can have truth in our mind but somehow, it can come in and go out. Like the Word says, that we're not to be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine (Ephesians 4:14). If it's just in your mind, you know, someone tells you one thing, and you get that in your mind. But, oh, someone else comes and tells you another one. It's a wind of doctrine, and oh, it just blows you that way. And someone else has another wind, and oooh, it blows you that way! No, we've got to get it down into our gut!
Yes, whatever winds that come, the winds of deception, and the winds of this and that, and they blow all about us, but they can't get to us, because it's in our gut. It's got so down deep into the depths of our being that we know truth. We know Him! We know Who He is. And we know Whom we have believed. And we are persuaded that He is able to keep that which He has committed unto us against that day (2 Timothy 1:12).
Yes, we're the people who know, the people who are persuaded, the people who have truth right in our gut, and in the depths of our being. It doesn't matter what anybody says, we will not be swayed! And we will not lie down. And we will stand because what does it say here? “Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.” It's only when it's right down in the very gut of your being that you will be able to stand.
Now ladies, there's something else here. It's very interesting. I noticed this a number of years ago. I really had to think about it, because sadly, I read in different translations . . . I'm reading from the King James. I read other translations saying: “Put on the . . . (what does it say?) “Put the belt of truth around your waist.” Yes, “Put the belt of truth around your waist.”
I beg your pardon? Where do they get that? Because I checked it. I thought, “Goodness, I'd better check this!” So I went back to the Greek. “Then therefore, having your loins girt about . . . ” The word is “loins” in the Greek. It wasn't “waist,” and it wasn't “belt.” It was “loins.”
Now, what are the loins? Our loins are the area between our hips and thighs, including our reproductive organs. Yes, the loins speak of the reproductive organs. Now, when a soldier goes out to war, every soldier, he wants to protect his loins. Goodness me! Any soldier back then, he's going to protect that part of his body!
And that's back in Bible days. They wore long flowing robes and when they wanted to exercise or work, they would pull up their robes and tuck them in their belt or tie a knot up there round their belt. So I can see where they do get the belt part from, yes. This girdle that they would have around their loins would, well, it usually attached to a belt, so it will hold it up,
But your belt around your waist doesn't protect your loins. Imagine if they went out to war with just a belt! Help! I mean, can you imagine it? They've got to have something, to have something to cover their nakedness, and also to protect that most vulnerable area of their body, their loins. Now when people were day-to-day, they'd pull up their long flowing robes, tuck them in their belt, and they could continue working.
But when they went out to war, they didn't wear long flowing robes. They would wear a girdle that was specifically for war. As you've seen Roman soldiers, you will see how that they had even metal girdles to protect their loins.
Dear ladies, isn't it interesting? We get back to this, the loins, in the man and in the woman. We see here, that right there, the very seat of where God wants us to have truth, has become one of the greatest deceptions in the world, maybe especially in the church! Where even God's people have been deceived about their loins, and about women, about their reproductive area which is in this part of their body.
God wants us to understand truth. God created this very beautiful part of our body for women, and for men, and God wants us to protect our reproductive area. He wants us to protect it so it is not put out of use. He created it to be used. He created us with a womb, where we can conceive and grow an eternal soul in our wombs. Bring forth a child into this world. To bring the Image of God into the world. And to bring forth a life for eternity!
It is such a powerful, glorious, amazing thing! And it's very precious to God. He wants us to protect our loins, our female reproductive area. For men, male's reproductive area.
Let's look at some other Scriptures which use that same word. The word is osphus and it actually is “loins.” OK now, let's see just a few other places where it's used. It's used in many places. It talks about John the Baptist in Matthew 3:4 and he had “a leathern girdle about his loins.” So it was all around his loins, protecting that part of his body and also covering his nakedness.
In Acts 2:29, 30, it's talking about David. And it says: “Therefore being a prophet” (Did you know David was not only a king? He was also a prophet. He was also the beautiful Psalmist of Israel. He was also a great warrior. He was many things. But this Scripture tells us that he was a prophet). “And knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on His throne.” And what is this saying? It was from the line of David that Jesus, the Son of God, came into the world. And so through David, through the fruit of his loins. It didn't say the fruit of his waist, no.
How can a baby come forth from your waist? No, that word is “loins.” I'm sorry. Even if many modern translations say it's your “waist,” it is “loins” in the Greek. And “loins” means your reproductive area. Here is the same word, osphus, and from “the fruit of his loins he would raise up Christ.“ How amazing!
Then over in Hebrews 7:9, 10, talking about Abraham it says: “Levi also, who receiveith tithes” (because Levi, it was the Levitical priesthood the writer of Hebrews is talking about, the Levitical priesthood, and they received tithes from the rest of the tribes of Israel) “Levi also who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.”
Do you remember the story when Abraham was coming back from conquering the enemies and rescuing his nephew Lot, and he met Melchisedec? Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec. But do you get it? This Scripture is saying that not only Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec, but Levi did! But Levi wasn't born! Levi didn't come for four generations later. Levi was his great-grandson!
But the Bible says, God says that Levi was in the loins of Abraham when he was not even yet born. You see, God sees far beyond what we see. He sees that Levi was already there, in his loins. Not his waist, in his loins, in his reproductive area.
I wonder what would happen today if God had intended someone like Levi to come forth how many generations later? Isaac, then Jacob, and then Levi, from Abraham. We're speaking of four generations here.
But he doesn't come, because someone has stopped him coming. They haven't understood the truth. They have been deceived about embracing children. They have been deceived about the power of the godly seed that God wants brought forth into this world and to fulfill His purposes. But see, we have to yield our lives to God, Who is sovereign. Because He sees children in our wombs, and in the loins of our husbands who are yet to come! Isn't it powerful?
Now, OK, the Word “girded” because we have to have our loins girded, that is the word perizonnumi. peri, “about,” and zonnumi, “gird about.”
Sometimes that's used metaphorically, like in 1 Peter 1:13: “Gird up the loins of your mind.” In other words, get rid of all the hindrances, so you can really go for God!
Luke 12:35: “Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.”
I can't believe it ladies, the time's gone again, already. Oh well, let's pray, shall we?
“Oh Father, we just thank You for Your Word. There is just so much in Your Word. Lord, we pray that we will be mothers, we will be daughters, we will be grandmothers, we will be great-grandmothers, Lord, who have the Word, not just in our minds, not just in our hearts, but right down in the center of our beings, in our very gut, in our loins, that we will be girded about with truth.
We will not be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, that we will know the truth, and we will walk in the truth. Help us to be truth-bearers, truth-imparters, passing on God's Truth to our children, that we will raise children of truth. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.”
Transcribed by Darlene Norris
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