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To close out the week, Pastor John Samuel Barnett stands at the end of the world! – well, where the final battle will take place that is – Megiddo’s gate.
 
Today’s teaching is about the importance of the different types of gateways in our lives and how our focus should be on making God our primary focus in those areas.
 
We visit a different palace today, both in location and the manner of the man – David’s palace. Where Herod was unrighteous, David was made righteous by God. Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives a history of the location that David built his palace and the application we see that God wants us to purposely draw from the connection.
 
Pastor John Samuel Barnett teaches in the footsteps of Herod’s palace on the wise men and their personal visit to find the Messiah. We too must come and find the Messiah personally and what to do when we meet Him.
 
Bethsaida is the place where Jesus goes to call a number of the apostles. Pastor John Samuel Barnett teaches on the repercussions of our following Jesus just like the apostles did.
 
Pastor John Samuel Barnett opens up the Scripture and teaches on Hezekiah and his building of his high wall against Assyria. Hezekiah did not need to trust in his wall but in the promises of God that Assyria would not prevail. We too need to learn to seek the Lord first and not trust in our own understanding or power or might. Where we might fail, God never does.
 
Pastor John Samuel Barnett closes out this week standing in a city square that was the place of a slave trade. We are reminded that we are always a slave. We are either a wild person, a hater of God, and a slave to our sin and the son/daughter to the devil. Or we are a slave to God, devoted to Him, and – here’s the biggest difference – adopted by God as one of His own Children. Let us choose to follow the one who gives us freedom from our old master and calls us one of His own.
 
Romans 1 tells us that all men, everywhere worship something. We worship either things made with hands and corruptible images/worthless things or we worship the incomputable true God who reveals Himself in nature, in our own image, and who ultimately revealed Himself in the life and work of Jesus Christ.
 
Today, Pastor John Samuel Barnett is in Geshur among the “high places” of pagan worship mentioned throughout the Old Testament. His challenge is to break apart your false worship and rend in two your reliance on anything but the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth!
 
Pastor John Samuel Barnett stands on top of Mount Arbel where Jesus stood and teaches about Christ’s power and intercession on behalf of His People. We can take confidence that Jesus still stands aboves us and hears our prayers and makes intercession for us.
 
Jaffa, a port city in Israel is associated with both Jonah and Peter. Pastor John Samuel Barnett teaches from there about these two men specifically. From these two men we see how God uses the ways and the means of opening up the Gospel unto salvation for His Purpose.
 
Pastor John Samuel Barnett stands on the road to Beth Shemesh and looks at the life of Samson. There are many things we can learn from the life of Samson and sadly, it’s usually in the form of what not to do. We have to remember that even as regenerated believers we can still fall into temptation that we give into. We sometimes are like Samson in our own ways. It is through the working of the Holy Spirit in our sanctification that we are able to grow in holiness for God’s eternal purpose.