Tri-County Christian Center

"Adult & Teen Challenge PacWest" – Spokane Men’s Center – Spokane, WA
Adult & Teen Challenge provides Christian faith-based, residential care to young people and adults who struggle with life-controlling problems.
Participance in the program share their experiences and testimonies.

“What’s it take to live by Faith?” – “The Righteous Shall Live by Faith”
Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
What is Biblical Faith?
Belief & trust in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Apostles Doctrinal understand
Action – Faith without works is useless.
Revelation knowledge
What is Unbelief?
What is “Little Faith?”
So, what does it really mean to live by Faith
2 Corinthians 5:7 For we live by faith, not by sight.
Walking by faith is learning to constantly receive God’s will a quickened to our human spirt by the Holy Spirit.

“If God is Good, Why Evil?” – “Did God create evil?”
The Preeminence of Christ
Colossians 1:15-17 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Genesis 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Evil is the rejection of God’s good.
Why does God allow evil?
We rejected God and created evil.
Evil is the rejection of God’s good.
Testing of Your Faith
James 1:2-4 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

“A Turning Point for USA and The Church”
What Is Happening In America and What/How Should We Respond?” –
Matthew 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Charlie Kirk found his life.
He was a martyr for truth.
He totally sold out to his God.
Count the cost.
Ephesians 4:25-27 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. "In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
1 John 4:4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

“Spiritual Warfare God’s Way – Part 4” – “More Than Conquers” –
Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 Strongholds:
The current world view
Your own experiences
Wrong Doctrines (Teachings)
The real Battle Ground is our mind.
2Corinthans 10:3-5 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

“Spiritual Warfare God’s Way – Part 3” – “Binding and Loosing” –
Understand what binding and loosing are all about.
Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Proverbs 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
James 3:10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.
Power Source
There is no substitute for the word of God.
Being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Prayer - Acts 4:23 The Believers Pray for Boldness.

“Spiritual Warfare God’s Way – Part 2” – “How do you engage in this battle” –
Ephesians 5:10-13 The Whole Armor of God
We need to love the word and believe God will speak to us through the word.
What does the word really say?
1Timothy 4:16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
What is Spiritual Warfare?
Mark 16:17a And these signs will accompany those who believe: …
Matthew 10:7-10 Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles
Binding and loosing
Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Luke 10:17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name."

“Spiritual Warfare God’s Way – Part 1” – “We need the presence of God” –
1Chronicles 15:13 It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the LORD our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way.
What did Jesus teach?
Look at what Jesus did.
What does the word of God actually say?
We need to model what Jesus taught.
We need to model what Jesus taught.
 “The Temptation of Jesus” Luke 4:1-15 What did Jesus say and do during his testing in the desert.
"The Whole Armor of God" Ephesians 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

“Thanksgiving and Praise” – “Psalms 100“ -
Psalms 100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
Uzzah and the Ark – Bringing in the presence of God.
Psalms 100:1 A psalm. For giving grateful praise. Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
This is a battle Cry.
We have so much to shout about.

 “Forgiveness and the “Idaho 4” - “How do we walk through the hard things.” –
Time alone does not heal grief. You need help.
How do you walk through forgiveness?
Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord
Your best revenge is to live your life serving Jesus.