Welcome to lesson number 9 on the pioneer school
today we are going to talk about repentance
and I am going to provoke you and help to
take your glasses off when it comes to this
because I want to ask you a question we as
Christians should we look at ourselves as
sinners saved by grace or saints? And this
is really important and the way we look at
ourselves often hasn’t anything to do with
the bible but has to do with the glasses and
our background and today I’m going to help you
to take the glasses off help you to understand
that Jesus did not come to save us in our
sins but he came to save us from our sins
and I believe this teaching is really important
in going to help you to come into the freedom
we have in Christ so we can live the life we
read in the book of Acts so God bless you.
Welcome to this teaching this is teaching
number 9 out of the 20 lessons on the pioneer
school and again I love what God is doing,
God is doing God is doing amazing things and
the last two times I spoke about what you
need to do to get saved I spoke about repentance
baptism in water and the Holy Spirit and I
got a lot of response out of it there an older
lady who wrote to me from our city who is
at the bible school I’ve not seen her yet
but she wrote to me that her whole life she
had thought this she was saved by her baptism
as an infant but after she had seen this video
she want to get baptised so after this teaching
I’m going to her to baptise her so a lot
of things is happening during these lessons
and I love it, I love what God is doing and
today is going to be really interesting and I
am going to help you also today to get the
glasses get off you the religious glasses
and what I am going to talk about today is
repentance and I am going to a little different
way than you normally hear when we talk about
repentance and also what you see in this bible
school I only try to get the glasses off so
you can by your own with the Holy Spirit
study the word of God and experience how the
word is setting you free so I’m not going
to give you the answer in everything ‘I’m
just going to give you the big picture to
help you to understand the different
things in the word of God. And
today I’m going to provoke you a lot
I am going to say something where you are
going to say ‘wow what is this? But remember
what do we build on? Do we
build on our traditions
or on the word of God but before I am going
to take this teaching today and continue with
some of the things we talked about last time
I’m going to share some testimonies l love
sharing testimonies of what God is doing and
if you remember last time I spoke about how
we share the gospel and I was sitting here
with this table and I was showing how to share
the gospel and it’s like God wants people
all over the world to repent he has commanded
people to repent our job as disciples is to
show them what it is all about to give them
the clear gospel so they know what they need
to do because as I show you last time if they
do what they are supposed to do God is going
to move next time if they repent he is going
to give them a new heart if they get baptised
in water he is going to set them free from
their sins when we lay our hands on people
and obey the word of God they are going to
receive the Holy Spirit and I show you last
time how I did it and I want to say this is
like everything else it must not end just
with theology if you get theology out of my
teaching you have failed and I have failed
in teaching you because we need more than
theology we need to get it into practice and
for me when I started this with sharing the
gospel and the way I do it in the beginning
it was new for me also everything I’m teaching
is new for me because I have to take my glasses
off myself but when God start to help me and
set me free I started to walk in it and the
more I walked in it the stronger it became
and often did I see things happen and since
last time the last week I do this teaching
every week, since last week I’ve seen two
people saved when I did the same with the
coffee table one was like four days ago there
was a guy who seen a video to me and he wrote to
me 17years old his parents is from a religious
home but he doesn’t come anymore and he had
not really experienced God and salvation
and he wrote to me and we met at a coffee
shop down in the city where I am and we were
sitting there we were drinking coffee and
I start to talk about Jesus and I ask him
I if he had met God and he hadn’t and I
talked with him about the gospel so after
we drank coffee I did the same like I showed
you just in a coffee shop and when we have
done that he saw that what he needed to do
he saw that he needed to repent get baptised
and receive the Holy Spirit so we did, after
that we went to a place where I could pray
for him but we were in the city so I need
to find a place where we could be alone so
we find a parking garage where we went down
in the basement and there were no cars there
so we could be alone no people no cars, so
down there in the basement in the parking
garage in the middle of the city I prayed for
him he repented, he experienced the Holy
Spirit he got baptised with the Holy Spirit
he started to speak in tongues and he was
on fire afterward we went up again went to
the city went out find some sick people and
he prayed for a woman who got healed he prayed
for a woman more got healed and there was
one from Greenland who could not move their
arm without pain and she got healed and her
husband came and another came and she was
standing and talking to them and explaining
what was happening and suddenly there were a
lot of people there and it was him who did
it, he prayed for them afterwards I have to
go to another place so I drive him to some
friends and he went out in the sea in Denmark
and got baptised in water and it was really
cold but he got baptised in water and this
guy was changed and I said to him, you are
not living for yourself anymore you need to
be bold you need to get out to many people
so he went home and write on face book and
I’m just going to read some of it this has
been the most amazing day I met a man by the
name of Torben and he has the website and
he has talked about every believer can have a
life with Jesus like the apostle did a life
of miracles we started to talk and he explained
to me all about it so he could make sure I
was getting into and then we went to the parking
garage and he prayed for me and I started
to speak in tongues it felt so surreal and
he continued telling about how people got
healed and all that happen in one hour God is
great and he continues in how he got baptised
and it was cold but he got baptised and then he
ended up with the reason I write this testimony
is that God wants more for us than just coming
in church and going to meetings he wants to
give us a life with miracles and healing if
there is anybody out there who wants that
please contact me and this is what God is
doing a few days ago I met this guy sitting
down going through the gospel I didn’t pray
ask Jesus into your heart I pray with him
he repented he got baptised in water he got
baptised with the Holy Spirit and he got on
fire he went home and shared on Facebook this
two days later there was a girl who contacted
me who had seen this on his Facebook 17 years
old also from a religious background but live
in sin don’t know God and many things is
new who have never heard about speaking in
tongues and those things so I met with her
on burger king so we were sitting on burger
king we were talking again I shared the gospel
this time with burger paper and cups and things
and I shared the gospel like I did in the
video after I shared the gospel she was ready
to repent so I had to find a place where I
could pray for her so just beside the burger
king there was a building being built but not
finished so we could go in that building
because it was empty and we went in there and
I prayed for her the Holy Spirit touched
her I got a prophetic word to her about a
snake I saw like a snake that was crawling
and it was her life and suddenly I saw the
snake coming out of the ground then it got
wings and was flying away and how God want
to set her free and take her out of what she
had been crawling in and when I got that verse
she was crying and crying and I prayed and
she got set free from a demon there was something
that left her and she told me afterward that
there was a lump coming up in her throat and
then it went out and she felt so free so she
was changed then we went to a shop nearby
find a sick person she prayed for the first
sick person who got healed then she invite
me to her house I went there I prayed for
her mother who got healed I prayed for one more
who experienced something and I was sitting
with the family, the mother invited me back
again because they want to hear more then
I took her to some friends I know who have a
bathtub and I asked them if we could baptise
her there because it was really cold that day
also and we did that so she got baptised
in the bathtub and when she came up she laid
her hands on her and she got baptised with
the Holy Spirit and she started to speak in
tongues and she was totally changed what I
tell you here is should be everyday life this is
what he has called us to those two testimonies
I have I can share from the last week just in
my life I have a friend tommy he also have
seen one of those saved and baptised and this
is happening all around now if we share the
gospel that way and get people
to move God is going to move.
And what happened with this girl was Monday
and Monday was a rainy day in Denmark it was
raining it was grey and you know everybody say
they hate Mondays it was a Monday raining
grey day but the power of God was there she
got saved she, she prayed for people who got
healed she got baptised in water and when
we hands on her she got baptised with the
Holy Spirit and she spoke in tongues and one
of the times was in the shopping mall in a
basement in parking garage in a café in a
burger king it’s out there where people
are so this is what God is doing and I love
this testimony and those people are so on
fire so when she got saved I called him and
said I’m just together with her and she
has just got saved has the Holy Spirit and
is speaking in tongues and baptised and he
was like ‘wow and he was so happy and it is
not like they are close friends they have
just seen each other before and are friends
on face book so he met God and he was bold
and somebody read it on Facebook and because
of that, now I’m getting invited back to
the whole family because they want to hear
the gospel every day everybody they want to
hear more. So I love the testimony I also got
a letter I like that, this is a testimony
from Victoria in Canada where we have just
been and I had just made a new video from
the trip of Canada where you see a little
from each place we’ve been and this one
she wrote here I wanted to send a report from
Victoria of what happened to my son after
you prayed for his allergy I amazed because
he has been completely healed his sister also
had some allergies and was also prayed for
and she also had been healed as well this
is amazing because for six years we have not
been able to take the family to a birthday
party a dinner with friends house a restaurant
everywhere with food unless we bought special
food for them this has really changed so much
in how we are able to live our life so many
people are shocked to hear that they have
been healed love it, testimony from Victoria
what God is doing. Ok so again
don’t make theology out of my
teaching out of the word of God take the word
of God and act on it do it and then you will
bear fruit, then you will bear much fruit
yes now I want to pray lets pray for today
and this work because this is a really important
word and it’s going to for many people go
against their religious glasses and it’s
going to be like ‘what’ and this is the
foundation because I’m going to talk about
repentance and this is so important this is
the foundation so we need to understand what
the word is saying there God I thank you for
this day, I thank you for everything you are
doing I thank you for the two people I just
told their testimony about who got saved,
baptised in water and the Holy Spirit who
are on fire for you right now God, God thank
you because we are going to see thousands
of people God in everyday life get saved God
burger king or malls in the city or the work
place yes God people are going to get saved and
I pray that you are going to help me today
to share this word and this word is going
to help to open their eyes it’s going to
set us free so we can live the life you have
for us so come with your Holy Spirit and help
me to share the word in the name of Jesus. Amen
I want to ask you a question you are a Christian
I believe that I am talking to you now as
a Christian do you look at yourself as a saint?
Are we saints as Christians? Or are we sinners?
How do you look at the Christians? How do
you look at your own life? Are you a saint?
Or a sinner? Are we saints or are we sinners?
And this is really important that we have
the right answer for this and I have been
surprised when I’ve been looking at this
how much we have been
influenced by our traditions
our glasses because if I in Denmark ask people
if they are saints or if they are sinners?
And we are talking about asking Christians
in the church almost everybody in Denmark
will say ‘we are sinners!’ Sinners saved
by grace! Almost none in Denmark will say
we are saints because we are like ‘saints!
No, no, are you without sin? Who do you think
we are and you are? And it is almost as if
there is a fear when we talk about the whole
part of being a saint no, we are sinners saved
by grace we are sinners every one of us. And
I had some real discussion with people about
this and for me one thing that helped me to
take my glasses off is to travel and to know
other people from other places in the world
I have my friend don from America working
with the last reformation in USA and for me to
talk with him is so interesting I am learning
a lot from him and he is learning a lot from
me because this is two world views that is
coming together and when I called him and
said don are we saints or are we sinners?
He said we are saints, of course we are saints,
we were sinners but we got saved now we are
saints and where he is living and in his area
and in the churches he work with use the word
saints and in a big part of America use the word saints.
There are other places again
in other churches denominations
of course in America use sinners.
But I see a really clear pattern when we talk
about those words where I see that what the
catholic church and the reformation is strong
and in America the reformation is the reformed
church and the Calvinistic and so on, where
they are strong each other denomination somehow
lead to we are sinners of course we are sinners
but where they are not strong where we see
like a movement of Pentecostal church and
other they are more free believe no we are
saints. So I see it’s not just being a Baptist
or Methodist or Pentecost who somehow create
a view of if we are saints or sinners because
a Pentecost in Denmark with a very strong
Lutheran background have a different view in
a Pentecost in another country where they
don’t have a Lutheran or catholic background so
every church is not only impacted by themselves
everybody’s impacted by the reformation the
Lutheran church who is impacted by the
catholic church. And it is very
interesting when you look at
this because for me growing up in Denmark if
I ask question in Denmark everybody would
know we are sinners we are sinners we are
sinners we are sinners but then if you go
out then of the little box
here in the Scandinavian
country in the north Europe for example and
go out, out of this box and go to other places
they are without these glasses, maybe they
have other glasses maybe they don’t but
they say no, no, no, no, no we are saints
so I want to say that everybody around you
believe in one thing don’t make it right
because everybody around you can be wrong because
they are building on the wrong foundation
the catholic church the Lutheran church instead
of what the word is saying and we are going
to look at the word very soon in Denmark,
there are people in Denmark who are like no
we are sinners, every Christian is like we
are sinners and to say we are saints is like
no’ this is too holy it’s too
much to say you are a saint.
And I thought do people in America say like
hey we are saints because they don’t know
what the word is all about for example in
Denmark I say I love you in Denmark if I say
it in Danish I’m now going to learn you
some Danish words I love you in Danish is
yi elskidie and for me if I say to somebody
in Danish I love you yi el skedai this is
a little hard because you really mean it so you
don’t just go and use the word to somebody
yea but we in Denmark is very fast to use
the English expression, word ‘I love you’
‘I love you too’ but us as a Danish person
it is easier to say I love you in English
than it is in Danish because it is just a
word, we have seen in TV we have heard it
in songs in music everybody o I love you we
just use the words and maybe it’s like that
with ‘saints’ I started to think about that
maybe it’s that people in America just
hey we are saints they just use it ‘yes he
is a saint’ but if you go to people with
a catholic background ‘like saints’ no no saints?
To become a saint the pope have
to make you a saint a saint is only a few
people who is something special and this is
so interesting if we look at two things the
word has been changed like if we take the
word Christian everybody uses the word Christian
today but if we know that the word Christian
means comes from the word little Christ if
we look like Jesus Christ maybe people will
not just use the word. But what is a saint?
A saint the bible says also holy people are
you holy? Or are you a sinner and I want to
use the word holy now instead because for
you now who live in America the word saint
has been misused and that’s why I used the
word holy people and sinners but the question
now what are we? What are you? Are you a holy
person? Or are you a sinner? Let’s see what the
bible says about it if I look at the bible
and the bible says the saints are holy people
you can find for example in the book of acts
in two places we read that your holy people
in Jerusalem so the book of acts this is Luke
who wrote the book of acts
and about the Christians
the disciples he use the word holy people
another place in the same chapter the holy
ones who live in Luther so here we see Luke
who wrote the book of acts is using the word
saints or holy people about the Christians
but what about the rest of the bible? Was
it only in the book of acts no it’s not
and you are going to see now almost every
letter in the book in the bible starts with
and we are going to see three letters we have
here Ephesians to Gods holy people in Ephesus,
Philippians, to all Gods holy people in Christ
Jesus in Philippi, Colossians to Gods holy
people in colossi, so here we read that Paul
is starting his letters to the holy people
in this city to the holy people in this to
the holy people in this, what is interesting
is if you go to the book of acts and through
the bible the new testament you will always
see that they called the Christians holy people
the saints the holy people there the holy
people the holy people
the holy people, if you go to the book of
acts bible new testament and see how many
places the Christians the disciples God called
the holy people you will see it so many times
I’ve counted about 43 44 times in the bible
you see that they were called the holy people
the saints for over 40 times you see that
do you know how many times in the bible the
Christians was called sinners?
None! The Christians
were never called a sinner in the bible never,
never, never, never! And again do we have
many churches many minds that’s today where
we think is holy to call ourselves sinners,
we are sinners saved by grace and if I look
in a country like Denmark and Scandinavia
country where I have grown up if I said
to people we are a holy people ‘o’ no oo
it is almost a sin to call yourself a holy
people because we are sinners, sinners, sinners
and this is so much a part of our mind set in
Denmark no matter if it is a Baptist Methodist
Pentecostal no matter what denomination in
Denmark we think we are sinners, sinners,
sinners, sinners, also after we got saved why
do we think that? Because every denomination
in Denmark and also where you are living is
building on the same foundation the foundation
is the catholic church and the Lutheran church
because it was where this came in we are sinners
we are sinners we are sinners and there is
one truth in that the truth is that people
are sinners and need salvation but when you
repent when you get saved you are not any
more a sinner. Because a new
life has started inside of you
but to be honest I believe and you are going
to see that today and next time the problem
here is that they didn’t see the new life
started people continued being sinners also
after they got saved because
they do not understand
the true gospel so if you go to the book of
acts to the first Christians and say hello
I’m a sinner they will share the word with
you and want you to repent and get saved if
you then say you are a saved sinner they will
look at you like are you crazy? You cannot
be a saved sinner because to get saved is
to get rid of your sin. So you are
not a sinner anymore we read about
saved from what save from our sin Jesus is
called Jesus and he saved his people from
their sin, he should not save them in their
sins he should save them from their sin if
we think we are saved in our sin we can continue
being sinners and being saved sinners and
this is a mind-set that is just wrong you
don’t find that in the word of God no we
are saved from our sin so we were sinners but
now we are holy people I want to say that
holy people don’t mean perfect in any way
so we don’t, are not able to experience
that we fall in sin people can be holy people
and still fight, the word of God write to
the Corinthians and there was a lot of problem
in that church in Corinthians but he still
called them the holy people So holy
is something you become the day you
get saved and you continue and you continue
that I’m going to talk about that so what
you need to know is that in the bible you
never find the words sinners for Christians
and if that is the truth why do you call yourself
sinners why do people always call themselves
sinners? When this is not true because we are
building on the wrong foundation and then
maybe you say yes but’ Paul, Paul, Paul,
he called himself a sinner and I’ve been
sharing this here about 40 different words
in the bible where you see places where you
see the word ‘holy people’ but it’s not
like in the bible in the church people
don’t know all of those scriptures the most of
them know one this is this one Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners of who
I am the worst Paul is saying that this is
what we use in Denmark if you go to Danish
Christians Lutheran website and ask question
are we sinners or not sinners they will say
we are sinners and they will quote this verse
that Jesus Christ came to the world to save
sinners and of whom I am the worst so they
say that Paul said about himself
that he is the worst sinner.
And somehow it has become holy so I meet
people like ‘I’m the most worst sinner’ no
no I am more worse than you are no, no, no, I am.
Almost has become holy to say I am a
sinner and people stand up in church and ‘I
am a sinner’ and somehow we make it holy
but Paul is not saying he is a sinner if you
look at this Jesus Christ came to the world
to save sinners he is talking about something
Jesus not Jesus do right now but something
he did he came there to save sinners and of
those people he came to save he was the worst
why? Because if you see the words before he
said that he was blaspheming he was a violent
man he was doing a lot of crazy things you
know Paul he was going against the church
he was trying to kill the Christians so he
was a violent man against God but God saved
him, so when he is saying there he was the
worst sinner he doesn’t say he is it now,
he said he was it but he used the word I am
because he is talking about something at that
moment and try to imagine it was true that Paul
was looking at himself as the worst sinner
and he thought it was holy why did he every
time he write a letter in the bible write
to people and called the
Christians the holy people?
It seems so crazy he calls himself
I’m the worst sinner and to everybody he
met around he called them the holy people
there but me I’m the worst of all sinners
can you see it doesn’t make any sense and
this is what religion is and you have seen
that through in the last teaching we take
something that is very clear in the word of
God holy people holy people holy people over
forty times it is written holy people and
then we take one verse taken out of context
we don’t understand and out of that word we
build our theology and we don’t see what
the rest of the word is saying
because no we are sinners
And this is the foundation almost every church
here is building on we are sinners saved by
grace can you see it and it’s all about the
mind set to understand who we are in Christ
and what he has done if you go with that mind-set
o you are sinners, you are sinners you are
sinners, I’m a sinner I cannot do anything, do
you think you are going to experience freedom
no you are not you will see yourself a sinner
you start to think as a sinner and you will
live as a sinner.
New creation But if you know
that you are a new creation
something new has started you are going to live
that new life and I don’t say to everybody
receiving this teaching that hey now you should
just say you are holy people because many
maybe is sinners because you have not repented
because you are not saved yet, and I want
to talk about what happens when we repent
what happens in our life and I don’t want
to make a lot of theology out of it I want
to give you a testimony of it, but first I
want to give you some scriptures this is what
the word is saying when we talk about sin
‘No one who abides in him sins no one who
sins has seen him and knows him’ ‘ouch!
This is what the word is saying ‘nobody
who abides in him’ sins’ no one who sins,
has seen him and knows him and remember what
Matthew chapter 7; 21 was saying we talked
about before that many one day is going to
stand in front of Jesus and he will say depart
from me I never knew you’ you who do sin’
this word this is the word of God. And many
know other scriptures from the word of God
but 1.john 3; 6 is of course a well-known
scripture my question is john 3; 6 more the
word of God than this verse? No? Is this verse
from first Matthew 7; 21 ‘no’ this is the
truth that nobody abides in him sins but
many have a problem with that because
‘no, no, no, no, no’ ‘hey, relax’ Torben!
Do you say you don’t sin? No, no , no remember
john, john 1;9 john 1;8 and this is what john
1;8-9 says ‘if we claim to be without sin
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us if we confess our sin he is faithful
and just and will forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness I want
to say this is the word of God and this is
the word of God religion take one verse there
and build a whole theology out of it and if
I go to churches today almost no Christians
know this verse but everybody knows this if
you were living at that time you didn’t have
a bible where there was chapter and verses
no’ you got the whole context but today we
have chapters and verses and because of
that many people are deceived because they
say no if you say you are without sin the
truth is not in you we are all
sinners we are all sinners.
But you also take this verse and say but
if you sin you don’t know him ‘what is the
truth? The whole thing is the truth the word of
God is the truth, and if we take our religious
glasses off we will not have a problem with
the word we will not need to go and take some
scriptures out and put it away or just read
very fast through it like we don’t see it
because we have problem with it and I want
to share a testimony from my life because
the good thing with my life is that when I
got saved I didn’t have so much religious
luggage I don’t have the backpack like many other
I got saved from a non-Christian background
I was baptised and firm in the Lutheran church
but it was just tradition I had never opened
my bible I didn’t know what the word was
saying and then I had a friend who told me
about Jesus and I came to a church and there
the Holy Spirit touched me and I went up and
I repented and asked Jesus to save me when I
did that I felt like the Holy Spirit came
like a light into me I fall to the floor I was
laying there I really met God it was like
the Holy Spirit all over my body it was the
fifth of April 1995 I remember it like it
was yesterday it was so strong I remember I
stood up again and I sat down and somebody
said congratulations you are born again Torben
and I was like thank you but I didn’t know
what he was talking about I had never heard
a word like born again’ I didn’t know
what he was talking about but when I went home
from that meeting something have happened
inside of me. The first thing
was I have always afraid of
dying I went home I said to myself Torben you
are going to die one day and when I said
to myself Torben you are going to die normally
I would begin to panic ooo I’m going to
die’ oo I’m going to die’ and I would be
so afraid because I don’t like to think
about it that I am going to die one day. but
what happened there this time when I said
to myself ‘Torben you are going to die was
I was on my bicycle and I was like ‘yes’
I’m going home and I thought ‘what is happening?
I’m not afraid anymore I have
got set free from fear at that moment I didn’t
know at that time that Hebrews chapter 2;15
was saying that Jesus Christ came to deliver
them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage but Jesus Christ
came to set us free, us who were held down
in fear and I experienced that I didn’t read
the word and said to my mind ok the word
is saying that then I have to take my mind and
try to get the fear to go ‘no’ I experienced
it in my spirit, and it happened like that what
more happened the more thing that happened
was that I had become new I didn’t know about
the whole thing but something had happened
so I came home and normally I go to a pub
on Friday and drink beer so I went to a pub
like Friday like I was used to because my
mind was still the same I came home I looked
at myself I say born again? I look the same?
For me I looked the same I didn’t understand
what was happening so Friday I went to a pub
and I went there and when I stood there I
looked around and suddenly my eyes was opened
and I was like what am I doing here? I don’t
belong here I have met you Jesus ‘no’ and I
went away and I was like what is happening?
I didn’t want that anymore normally I was
used to swearing and used to cuss words and
I was having a bad language but when I told
a lie or misused Gods name when I did it I
was like ‘o it tasted so wrong’ Normally
I didn’t have a problem with it
my whole life I’ve not had a problem with
it but now something had changed inside of
me and oo it tasted wrong I didn’t want
it anymore and then I stopped doing that.
One more thing I had a girlfriend and I was
used to living in sin and I went to bed with
her like young people who is sinners I was
a sinner I went to bed with my girlfriend
and this time a girlfriend came to me and
before she came I had been thinking ‘what
does the bible say about this’ and she came
and she want to be together with me and I
really experienced temptation there was something
you know sin there was something ok, but again
no, no, no, no I am not a part of that anymore
I don’t want that but I experienced the
temptation and I got confused because what
does the word say? So I was like God is this
sin or what? Is it not sin? God I want to
do what you want, God is this sin to go to
bed with her? and I tried to remember what
I had learned when I got confirmed in the
Lutheran church and I didn’t learn anything
there it was only tradition about holy days
and tradition in the Lutheran church and I
was thinking what does the word say and to
be honest I could not say at that time that;
the word says this is sin’ because I was
so new and I didn’t know the word of God so
what did I do I was ok God are you there?
Hello! And the temptation was so great so
I was ‘God are you there? And I did like
this ok, God you are not there and I took God
and put him aside and I went to bed with
my girlfriend and this time immediately I
had been in bed with her I was like o no’
o no! O sorry’ ‘God what have I done? What have I done?
I could just feel inside
of me I have sinned. I have sinned,
o God forgive me forgive me
God I have just found you I don’t want to
lose you forgive me and my whole body was
grieving to God! To me I have sinned! And
it was so clear I had sinned, it was wrong,
in that moment I did it I knew it was wrong and I
knew at that time that my friends non-Christian
friends if they had been there they had said
to me common Torben relax it is like ‘God
is love’ it is love everything its ok God
is not like that it’s not sin to go to bed
with your girlfriend if you love her, they
would have said that to me but, no person,
on earth, could convince me of something else
because inside of me I knew, I knew, I knew
I had sinned. Why did I know it?
Because I repented because
repentance is not only something we do it is
also something God do, when we repent from
our sins and put our trust in Jesus Christ
for what he did on the cross God is going
to change our life he is
going to create something
new inside of us and this is what it is all
about the new covenant the new covenant Jesus
came with those things because he want to
save us from our sins and in the new covenant
he not only save us in our sins he save us
from our sins and he create a new person you
read about that in Jeremiah many years before
Jesus came there was a prophesy that God is
going to create a new covenant and I will
put my law Jeremiah 31;33 and I will put my
law within them and in their heart and I will
write it and I will be their God and they will
be my people so Jeremiah many years before
Jesus he prophesied that one day he is going
to create something new a new covenant and
there God would take the stone heart the stone,
the ten commandments the law on the stones
and put it in our heart he says that here
and the same scripture you read right here
in Hebrews 2 in the new testament they are
quoting so in Hebrews 2 when they talk about
the old covenant and the new he is quoting
this that the law is going to be written in
our hearts and he will be our
God and we will be his people.
This is what it is all about and you have
the same verse in Ezekiel 11;19 the prophet
also prophesy ‘And I will give them one heart
and I will put a new spirit within you
and I will take the stony heart out of their
flesh, why do God do that? Why does God give
us a new spirit? Why does God take the stone
heart out of us? Why does God give us a new
heart of flesh? He said and will give them
a heart of flesh. That they may walk in my
statutes, and keep my ordinance and to them;
and they shall be my people, and I will be
their God. So this is what Jesus did he came
to save us from our sins, why? How? By giving
us a new spirit and giving us a new heart,
he is going to remove the stone heart from
our body and give us a heart of flesh he is
going to write the commandments in our heart
so we would walk in his statutes so we could
keep his commandments not like ‘go and remember
the ten commandments, not like go and remember
what is wrong what not wrong ‘no’ but
by a new creation and it was what I experienced
that time many years ago I experienced that
why? Because the Gospel is the power of salvation
its more than just religious activities.
It’s a new body something new has started
and what happened with me I repented ‘God
forgive me! Forgive me! Forgive me! And at
that moment I was new and I really need to
have God to show me that he had forgiven me
because I was so new in it I didn’t know
the whole word was praying and I was confused
so I heard there was a church open in another
city close by they had a meeting that night
so I jump in the car I went there on the way
I said God forgive me! Forgive me! God
next time I’m going to be with a girl it’s
going to be with my wife on honeymoon God, help me!
God help me, forgive me! And then
something amazing happened because I was
at the meeting people didn’t know me’ only
a few people who I had seen before and I was
at that meeting and there was a woman who
was standing up in the beginning of the meeting
and she said I have a word ‘I see a young
standing in front of something he should not
do he didn’t know I was seeing it and he
took me and put me aside and he sinned but
he has repented and I forgive him right now
and I was standing there and I was shocked
because I was alone with my girlfriend and
I do like that alone because you are never
alone God sees everything but I thought ‘O’
God and I put God aside, but God saw it and
then I went to the meeting and she not only
said the words she was saying she prayed like
I did at home in my apartment and from that
moment I have known that God see everything
and also if we close the door and close the
light he sees everything. And I
was standing there wow’ God thank
you because you forgive me! And immediately
the Holy Spirit came and I was like and I
met God and I was so high I could almost fly
home in my car ‘I am forgiven! And I was
so happy! I was so high and I said to God,
God next one is going to be my wife on my
honeymoon I want to date you now. That way
I want to know you I don’t want to focus
on girls now I want to seek you I want to
know you and you have to find a woman for
me and I prayed that three months later I
was to a big Christian concert in another
end of Denmark with another 500 people and I
was standing there worshiping God and suddenly
God spoke to me I’ve not been thinking of
girls, the last month because my focus was
God and there God spoke to me and said Torben,
the one who is standing behind you she is
going to be your wife someday,
and I was like ‘what?
And then I turned around and like
wow’ I saw a girl behind me and I was like
this is my wife! This is my wife and I turn
around again and I was like wow and I just
knew my wife was standing behind me. Like
seven rows down and when I saw that I knew
it, this concert was over it was like the
last song and I had to hurry home and I was
driving with a friend who was waiting for
me so I did only like smile to her as she was
standing a distance I only smiled to her
and then I jump in the car and went home and
I said to my friend on my way home hey’
Michael I’ve just met my wife’ I don’t
know her name, I don’t know where she is
from ‘I don’t know anything about her but
God had told me the one who standing with
that yellow dress is going to be my wife someday.
I just knew it and I came home and said God
I don’t know where she is from in Denmark
but you have to put us together again three
months later I saw her like ‘hello and I get
to know her I talked with her and we got
married and three days ago we have been married
17 years and have 3 children. And I have learned
that when we repent from our ways from our
sins God has something much better for us
my wife is so amazing she is so holy she has
grown up in a Christian family she had never
kissed anybody else than me she had never
been together with somebody she had been kept
by God and she is so strong and when we talk
about living in sin I learned so much from
my wife because I can see so much in my wife
that is so different from so many other and
you have heard her songs she has gone through
a lot she is so strong. She is the strong
home in many ways in our family and often
when we travel together I take my wife with
me and we are working together now it’s me
who is the public person here you see me
often and people see me more but I’m not who I
am without my wife. My wife is the strength
she is so amazing and God has put us together
no doubt of that. So we can see if we repent
of our ways God has something better for us.
And what about ‘no one who abides in him
sins? No one who sins has seen him and know
him and another verse 1 John 3;9 no one who
is born of God will continue in sin because
God’s seeds remain in him, they cannot go
on sinning because they have been born of
God, what does that mean? I think this is
a good translation that they cannot go on
sinning because they are born by God and this
also is no one who abides in him sins, nobody
who abides in him goes on sinning, this is
often what the word is saying like john 3;16
For God so much loved the world that he sent
his only Son that everybody who believe in
him shall have eternal life the word is for
everybody who believe in him and continue
believing in him so in the word this is not
talking about somebody who just believe one
time many years ago the word if you go in
is the continued word everybody who believe and
continue to believe this is the same nobody
who is born of God will continue to sin why
because he is born of God why would he not
continue in sin because the law has been put
in his heart, this is what I experienced this
is what many millions of people around the
world experienced when you repent from your
sins when you believe in Jesus Christ God is
going to create a new heart inside of you
‘and that means that you cannot go on sinning’
the woman who was caught in adultery came
to Jesus and they want to stone her and Jesus
did not condemn her he forgave her but he
also said to her ‘now you are forgiven go and
sin no more’ what if she had just continued
sinning? We cannot continue sinning when we
have been forgiven we need to understand that
this word is also right if we confess our
sins he is faithful and just to forgive us
we need to understand that forgiveness
has to do with repentance.
And repentance has to do with your heart your
mind and has to do with ceasing from sinning.
I got forgiven when I sinned but I didn’t
continue in sin because I know what the word
is saying and it is like we have a world today
in church who don’t know what the word is
saying they don’t know the truth of God if
I go to Hebrew for example and I’m going
to read a verse that is also the word of God
exactly like john 3;16 and other verses and
the word here in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 26
if we sin wilfully after we have received
the knowledge of the truth there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sin. If we go sin
wilfully there is no longer a sacrifice for our
sin the result will be eternal punishment.
This is what the verse is saying many know
this word and read that word and are like
o sin wilfully o’ but I have sinned wilfully!
What does that word mean? And I want to say
when I stand there in front of my I went to
bed with her I was sinning wilfully I knew
it inside somehow I didn’t know it but at
the same time I knew it. And I did sin but
God forgave me. The word here if you sin wilfully
is the same word if you continue sinning if
you continue sinning wilfully you can come
to that part where the Holy Spirit is going
to leave you and I sad enough know people who
got saved they were living with a girlfriend
and they could not continue in that sin because
they got saved and then they move away from
the girlfriend later they opened them up to
sin again, and slowly sin came in and slowly
and slowly and then after some time ended
up with the girlfriend again and I met them
and I asked them do you have a problem with
this and they said ‘no’ but before they
had. What had happened? One time they experienced
the salvation the Holy Spirit in their heart
but because they didn’t keep because they
didn’t understand we have to be careful
with what God have given us and listen to the
Holy Spirit I believe those people continued
going against the Holy Spirit
the heart inside of them.
And because they continued in that
the Holy Spirit got sad and left them. And
now they ended up in sin again and the last
part is going to be worse than
the first the bible says.
When we talk about sin it’s
like we have not understood what it is all
about in church it is like are still the whole
part we are all sinners instead of understanding
we ‘were’ sinners’ but God created a
new heart inside of us and if we had that
we cannot continue living in wilfully sin
because we have the new heart.
Let’s go to the first book of
john chapter 3; 7 they talk about the children
of God and talk about some of the things I
have been reading here. Little children, let no
one deceive you him who practice righteousness
is righteous just as he is righteous. Him
who sins is of the devil for the devil for
the devil as sinned from the beginning for
the promise of God was manifested that he
might destroy the works of the devil. So Jesus
came to destroy the sin in us and in verse
10 we read this, this is how we know who the
children of God are and who the children of
the devil are anyone who does not do what
is right is not Gods children nor is anyone
who does not love his brother or sister. This
is what john is saying ‘this is how we know
who is the children of God and who is the
children of the devil this is how we know
this is just after this verse we read this, this
is how we know, how do we know by everybody
who is born again will not continue in sin
by this you will know who is the children
of God and who is not. It’s not
by speaking in tongues you know
you have repented, done the first thing it’s
not by speaking in tongues it’s not by healing
the sick but that we know that we have repented,
we know it by this is how we know who is the
children of God and who is not I talk to many,
many people and I meet many non-Christians
I meet many Christians when I talk to religious
people in the church I many times sit in front
of young people and I ask them do you live in
sin with your girlfriend? And do you go to bed
with your girlfriend? And they are like ‘yes’
ok do you have problem with that yes I think
I have ok why? Do you have
a problem in your mind?
Because you have heard that this is
wrong or do you feel inside here that this
is completely wrong? Many will say ‘I have
a problem in my mind’ why would they say
that because if it was from inside here it
would not be very like this is wrong’ it
would be like me YOU ARE SINNING! You are
sinning! And they would not be I doubt, they
would know that are sinning because they are
born of God, But because they
are not born of God they
are only religious in their mind set they
have no problem with sin they know in their
mind set that I should not do that it’s
wrong but they have never got it from their
mind down to their spirit and that is why
we have many in the church today who live
in sin and we call them still ‘Christians’ we
call them sinners but sinners who is going
to heaven because we are all sinners you know
yea they live in sin but we all live in sin
they continue in sin but they believe in
God ‘no’ it’s not by who believe God but
by this you know who is the children of God
and who is not by this, if people live in
wilful sin and you know it and you see it,
it doesn’t matter what they believe if they
live in wilful sin they are not born again
also if they come in church if he is a priest
if he say he knows God and he reads the bible
he is not born again because God came to create
a new heart he is still holy he has not changed
he is the same as we read in the old covenant
he has not changed it is us who need to get
changed by the spirit of God by the law of
God is written in our heart and this is what
happened when repentance happens, tom are
you without sin ‘no’ I don’t say I am where
I should be, but I am not where I used
to be but I know there is more because I need
to look like Christ and I want to look like
Christ when I got saved in the beginning it
was like the big thing like I did sin ‘aa
I could not do…that anymore, and then it
was easier for me to cut it off and not do
that anymore but you cannot like the head and
the mind separate them but then God started
to deal with that in me and then it was my
false life ‘why did I react the way I did?
Why did I say the thing I said? Was it to
build my kingdom? To be proud or why did I
do what I did? And God continued
working in me and he still
works in me today and he is going to continue
working in me until the day I’m going to
stand in front of him but I want to make him
continue working in me because if I just stop
and say no’ this is enough common, then
he is not my Lord. I need to let him work
in me. And there was a period in my life where
he really went deeper and deeper and deeper
and deeper and deeper and deeper. And I want
to say there is a difference between living
in wilful sin and being bound to sin, and
I repented in many ways and I experienced
a freedom I did, but there was still something
in my life I could not get rid of there was
one thing there and there was a few things,
I didn’t love it I didn’t want to live
in it but I fall in it, in this thing and
other thing, and I was like oo I didn’t
feel free and it tormented me but then I got
baptised and when I got baptise, not immediately,
nothing happened but later I got a revelation
out of what baptism was and I started to walk
in romans 6. Freedom from sin, one time I
read romans 6 freedom from sin each time I
read romans 6;14 And when I suddenly saw
what it is all about I was like I am free ‘I
am free and from that moment I experienced a
new beginning one more time I experienced
a freedom from sin the last thing was broken
in my life and it became a new beginning one
more time because those things have to do
with sin everything has to do with cleansing
and sin but today we have many people we have
the catholic church and the Lutheran church
and Calvinistic and other churches
who are not baptised in water.
And because they are not baptised in water
they cannot walk in romans 6. They don’t
experience the freedom they are walking in
romans 7 and they are fighting with guilt
many are and because they don’t have the
baptism in water and the freedom from sin
they build a theology out of their experience
and their theology becomes like we are sinners’
we are all sinners’ instead of we are saints
we are holy because Jesus did not come to
save us in our sin he came to save us from
our sin and I want to say Jesus said to the
Pharisee in Matthew 23 woe unto you scribes
and Pharisees hypocrites and he said you are
cleansing the cup outside but inside is still
rotten it is so rotten inside and he said
‘cleanse the cup inside and it will also be
clean outside and this is the problem with
the Pharisees this is the problem with the
religious people, today the religious people
cleanse the cup outside but inside the still
feel so rotten and I’ve met so many people
who have grown up in religious traditions
and when I come with this you can be free
then it is good news because they had tried
to walk as a Christian for many years and
know everything but they always feel condemned
and they always fighting and sinning fighting
and sinning instead of
experiencing the freedom why?
Because nobody has cleansed their life
inside by the new heart the freedom in baptism
and because they are not cleansed they feel
rotten inside and they are for many are rotten
inside and I want to say I have met people
many who have come in churches many years and
they thought they were saved and do everything
but when they really got saved they
said like now I was so deceived.
And to be honest I met that in Pentecostal
churches there I met in the Baptist church
I met in that many places because it is more
than religious it is life and we should not
build theology out of life and I want to say
my experience with freedom from sin didn’t
come by laying on hands on me in two seconds
‘no it came by seeking God, by repentance
by fasting, by seeking God and I think our
problem is sometimes that we want the big
thing here now, and we are not able to do
what it takes to come into the freedom God
has for us, we don’t do what it takes and
because of that many don’t walk in the freedom
next time I am going to talk about baptism
in water we are going to do it again with
sin I’m going to share my testimony how I
experienced the freedom from sin and I have
it in my book and I have just got this today
just today before I did this teaching the
post came with this book this is the first
time I like hold it in my hand almost I got
it like one hour ago and this is my book ‘The
Sound Doctrine’ and it had just come out
of amazon and I order it from amazon and that’s
why I got it here and you can order it on
amazon right now and you can
go on my website and find it.
And in this book I tell the story
about how I fasted how I experienced freedom
from sin and hate sin and you need to hate
sin in order to be free from sin and I tell
my story about how I experienced freedom so
if you want more teaching and again I’m
not speaking English normal so I’m not so
much into detail it’s also because English
is still something I am learning but here
there is much more scriptures. And there
is more detail about sin about fear
God, about freedom from sin, so I encourage
you to go and buy this book on amazon and
read that till I come back because next time
we are going to continue it, so this is the
word for you I want to end this video by saying
where are you? Where are you? when I talk
about this and I know many of you is grown
up in a Christian family and sometimes it’s
not so easy because you know everything you
know how to live and you think is that in
my mind in my spirit? The most important thing
is do you live in sin now? Do you experience
freedom? From sin? I have that if I do something
wrong I can feel like oo I should not go out
of this way’ I should stop now this is if
I go further here this is sin’ and I can
feel it inside of me and I
don’t know where you are?
Have you never experienced that and
live in sin? If you live in sin then you are
not born again, and you have to repent and
you have to repent and understand this and
give everything to God and be baptised in
water and Holy Spirit if you don’t
have that to come in to know him.
But maybe you are there
maybe you have experienced
that but you are slow to hearing or you were
some time ago more radical in that area and
I want to say then you have to do something
about it also and if TV is the problem then
throw it out of the house do what you need
to do to get rid of the thing that hinders
you, to live radical, get rid of the thing
that hinders you from being holy. And often
if we know what it was all about it will come
by itself because we will keep away from things
we don’t have a TV in our house it’s not
because I will sit and look at porn on TV
and because of internet if I want to look
at porn I could do it but now I have so much
fear of God in my life and I experience freedom
so I don’t do that but I don’t have a TV
because jus the normal things somehow I
can use my time on and it make me slow I makes
me somehow dull ‘sluggish’ in mind I don’t
know the English word it made me passive,
like it doesn’t matter so much its ok to
look at this its ok to film me with that and
many Christians look at TV all the time and
listen to non-Christian music
and I don’t understand how?
you cannot do that, you need
to fill your spirit with good things you need
to fill your spirit and if you go it’s not
only about keeping away from sin because in
Galatians 5 you read about the fruit of the
flesh and the fruit of the spirit in verse
19 The works of the flesh are; then there
is a long list including idolatry and jealousy
and a lot of things and he said there they
who practice such things will never inherit
the kingdom of God so he said that to the
Christians if you go out of that way this is
what he says you are never going to inherit
the kingdom of God but then he is talking about
the fruits of the spirit; love joy peace
longsuffering kindness goodness faithfulness,
and he talks about that and he said and those
who are in Christ have crucified the flesh
with its passion and desires if you are in
Christ and you belong to him you have crucified
your flesh what is a Christian?
What is repentance?
Repentance is that you are walking by the
flesh you are walking out of that road a big
road that lead to adjustment you are walking
out of that road and you are doing exactly
the things you read about in Galatians 5.19
but then you repented you turn away from it
toward God and you experience God lay
the law inside of you, you become new.
And then you start to walk the new life where
you are not led by the flesh but by the spirit
I want to say ‘where are you in all of this’
now I’ve been teaching and some of I believe
there are some who are not saved I believe
there are people who have not been baptised
in water and they don’t experience the freedom
I believe there is people because of their
religious glasses have a problem with this
with what I am teaching if there is a longing
inside of you and can see this is right I
want that I want that I want to be a saint
I want to experience the freedom God has for
me but how I am standing here and all of that
I want to say relax seek God and listen to
what God is dealing in you and the problem
with teaching like this is that people are
so different in their journey. But there is
one who knows where you are right now and
this is God and he knows what you need maybe
you need to repent and get saved and get baptised
in water and then God he know it and you know
it and he will talk to you and he will show
it to you maybe you are saved but you are
bound to sin and you need to get baptised or
you need a revelation about what your baptism
in water was and there you read in romans 6.
The Holy Spirit to open your eyes and set
you free maybe you are playing with sin and
the reason you are saved you are playing with
sin and that is why you are struggling with sin
and then you have to repent cut the things
off in your life maybe cut the internet out
drop the internet for a while until you get
fear of God in your life so you can have internet
again without sinning you know what you are
fighting with and you need to be free from
that because you need to walk in Christ not
after the flesh but after the spirit
this is what we all called to do.
And if you have sin in your life when you
repent and you don’t turn away from things
repent if you confess your sin God is faithful
to forgive you, also if you don’t get this
strong experience like I got in the beginning
because often I don’t do that anymore but
if I do something and God is reading me and I
am so sorry and I just know I am free, don’t
do that anymore not because I said the right
word but because I confess but I know that
he is working and he is cleansing me and I
do things and he forgives me and to confess
your sins it’s not only for God it’s also
to know remind yourself that this was wrong
so I’m not going to continue in this but
God is faithful. And I don’t know where
you are and I want to say it’s ok to have a
time where you get confused about this because
when God start to deal with me six years after
I got saved he start to deal with me about
sin again. And I start to be
confused and wow what about
this and what about this too, and then I started
to get the fear of God and God revealed this
book to me and this is my testimony about
it and I experienced the freedom but before
I experienced a freedom there was also some
days where I felt like now I was condemned
‘now I’m going to hell’ God, God cannot
forgive me anymore’ I have sinned against
the Holy Spirit and I feel so condemned but
it was from God because he wanted to have
a deep repentance in my heart, and when I
came in and experienced the revelation of
the freedom I got free and it was almost like
getting born again and to be honest I was
confused thinking was I really born again?
Was I really born before? Because this was
completely new one more time. There was a
freedom in Christ I have never experienced
before but I went through a journey like this I
was fighting, struggling I was almost condemned
some days, thinking ‘I’m going to hell’
and I was crying and I was seeing God but
then the revelation came and then the freedom
came and you also need to come into that and
you need to go walk from where you are and
take the next step you need to take and I
don’t know what that is? Maybe you need
fear of God in your life we need that all
of us maybe you need to repent get saved?
Maybe you need to have a revelation of what
baptism is maybe you need to just get your
eyes away off sin and look at Christ? People
ask me but tom I’m fighting with thing can
I go out and heal the sick and preach the
gospel? You need to go and do it because if
we get our eyes away from sin and ourselves
and look on Jesus things is going to be so
much better, if I look at sin anymore you
will not think of that you will not think
of that sin, sin, sin if I say to myself I
will not think of that ‘I’m going to think
of it’ but when I look at him I look at
what he has done I’m not going to think
of sin so this message is supposed to set
you free also it is in the beginning is shaking
you a little so I hope you understand that
I hope you understand this freedom that Christ
came with he came to set us free you are going
to learn the truth and the truth is going
to set you free so you are not going to be
a sinner anymore but you are going to be a
saint you are going to be holy you are going
to walk in freedom from sin so this is what
I want to talk about read my book next time
I’m back in two weeks, so you have time to
read my book and I look forward to continuing
and come with questions so I can take that and
start with that in the next teaching where
I am going to talk about baptism in water
and freedom from sin ….yes…amazing love
what God is doing. I look forward to next
time I am going to preach about baptism in
water and freedom from sin, God bless you.